Roger was crippled by back pain - now he runs up mountains
Health:
Mail Online : Tuesday 17 April 2008
By: Isla Whitcroft
More than 1.5 million Britons suffer from spondylolisthesis - displaced vertebrae which cause severe back pain and mobility problems. Roger Riley, 62, a retired metal worker from Bagillt, Flintshire, underwent a new operation to treat it. He tells ISLA WHITCROFT about his experience while his surgeon explains the procedure. More...
The surgeon put my new hip together like a ship in a bottle
Good Health: Me and my operation - Micro hip replacement
Daily Mail : Tuesday 29 April 2003
By: Isla Whitcroft
Hip replacements give mobility back to arthritis sufferers and rid them of pain - but recovery time can be up to four months. Now, a less invasive operation has arrived, and one of the first to have it is Michael Reed, 44, who tells ISLA WHITCROFT his story. Below, his surgeon Ahmed Shair outlines the procedure.
The surgeon used nails to hold my plastic disc in place, and ended 20 years of agony
Good Health: Me and my operation - Disc replacement
Daily Mail : Tuesday 1 July 2003
By: Isla Whitcroft
Early this year, after 20 years of back pain, development manager Hamilton Scanlon, 45, from Huntingdon, has an artificial disc fitted in his lower spine. Here, Hamilton who is married to Lesley and has two daughters, laura, 18, and Victoria,11, tells ISLA WHITCROFT, about the operation, and his surgeon explains the procedure.
Grow your own knee
Good Health: Surgery
Daily Mail : Tuesday 28 March 2000
By: Marion McKay
For keen sportsman Julian Smith, 34, the prospect of going through not just one but possibly two knee replacements was the worst scenario he could imagine. His right knee, injured in a footballing accident when he was ten, resembled that of a 75-year-old, devoid of cartilage, riddled with arthritis and missing vital ligaments. He believed his only option would be to wait until his mid-40s for surgery to replace the knee with an artificial one.
I lost my limp after 54 years
Health+: Me & My Health
The Sun : Thursday 25 July 2002
By: Emma Morton
Op makes brave Pat’s legs the same length
When Pat Malbon’s husband bought her a new pair of shoes she knew the operation she had waited 54 years for had been a success. Two days before she had undergone three-and-a-half hours of surgery to help her to walk properly.
Ligament swop got me back playing sports
Good Health: Developments
Daily Mail : Tuesday 12 May 1998
By: Anastasia Stephens
Vanessa Ingham's sporting life nearly came to an abrupt end when she ripped the ligaments at the back of her right knee during a netball match. Connecting the upper-leg bone (the femur) to the main bone of the lower leg (the tibia), once these ligaments break, the knee and leg below become almost totally powerless.
Latest surgery frees boss from life of pain
Health: Revolutionary back treatment revs businessman back into action
The Evening Telegraph (Peterborough) : Tuesday 13 October 1998
By: Neil Shaw
A businessman is today enjoying a new lease of life after undergoing revolutionary treatment freeing him from a life of pain. Handcocks (52) managing director of a Peterborough engineering firm was literally crippled with pain, unable to drive, run his business or enjoy any of his hobbies of golf, swimming, walking or motorbiking ... But now he is enjoying a normal life and is back in his motorcycle leathers.
Full horror of Leon injury
POSH: Star striker has plate and nine screws put in ankle
The Evening Telegraph (Peterborough) : 2002
By: Steve Judge
This is the horrifying state of star Posh striker Leon McKenzie’s ankle after an operation yesterday. But the city-based surgeon, who described McKenzie’s shattered ankle as one of the most serious serious injuries he has ever seen, believes he could be back in a Posh shirt by Christmas. Mr Ahmed Shair rated the two-hour operation a success after the striker suffered a fracture dislocation of the ankle during Tuesday’s friendly with Norwich City.