Here at The James Cook University Hospital department of trauma and orthopaedics, we offer a specialist service for people requiring surgery or assessment following previous injury or bone infection.
This service is run by a dedicated multidisciplinary team of surgeons, nurses and physiotherapists. This is closely supported by colleagues working in infectious diseases and microbiology.
Limb reconstruction surgery is a branch of orthopaedics using techniques to replace missing bone (possibly due to trauma or infection) and to lengthen/straighten limbs which have deformity present which impacts on a person’s function.
These treatments can include circular frames, intramedullary nails, plates and screws to manage the bone injuries alongside techniques to replace lost skin and tissue with skin grafts and flaps.
We take referrals from across the Northeast and Cumbria.
Conditions we treat
Complex fractures including open fractures and fractures involving joints
Non-healing fractures
Post traumatic deformities
Congenital deformities
Shortening/lengthening of limbs
Bone infections