Its great to see Netball Australia taking the initiative in preventing knee injuries. This great website should help prevent many injuries.
http://knee.netball.com.au/
If you are unlucky enough to injure your knee MHK has an Acute knee injury clinic designed to expedite your care and return to playing.
The use of Stem cells is an exciting new world for medicine but we need to be cognoscente of the evidence when prescribing these expensive new techniques. Stem Cells have been promoted in the media but the research doesn’t support how it is promoted. The Australian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians recently released a position statement regarding this.
The team at MHK are happy to discuss the evidence for treating osteoarthritis of your hip or knee.
With pre-season underway for many winter sports, remember to take some time to warm up properly and include injury prevention in your program.
If you have suffered a knee injury requiring surgery Melbourne Hip and Knee run an “acute knee injury clinic”. See our website for more details.
Melbourne Hip and Knee run a comprehensive education program during the year, so if any GPs, Sports medicine Doctors or Physiotherapists want to come along please email us at info@melbournehipandknee.com.au
Mr van Bavel will be attending the American academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Conference In San Diego In March 2017. This is the largest Orthopaedic conference in the world. Here he will be be presenting his research looking at 230,000 hip replacements performed in Australia over a 15 year period. The research shows a significantly lower revision rate (failure rate) of hip replacements when a cemented stem is used over a cementless stem.
