Research Networking Map

• Research governance

• Health service research into improving outcomes for operative management of osteo-arthritis

• The use of audit to improve practice

• Prosthesis Design
• Implant outcomes
• Technology and Surgery
• Virtual Reality Training
• Orthopaedic Education
• Military Surgery

• Trauma 

• Articular cartilage
• Gluteal tendon pathology and reconstruction
• Arthroplasty

Clinical research in trauma and joint replacement 

Biomechanics of the skeleton and spine research

• Trauma 
• Surgical innovation and translational research
• Rehabilitation relating to trauma and arhroplasty
• Hip and knee arthoplasty
• Prosthetic infections
• Medical education

• Intervertebral Disc Regeneration
• Spinal Biomechanics and Computer modelling
• Spinal Surgery Outcomes

• Orthopaedic Infection – Epidemiology, biomarkers, and prosthetic joint reconstruction
• Orthopaedic Trauma – Complex intra-articular fractures, pelvis/acetabular fractures, open fractures, and segmental bone defects
• Post-Traumatic Salvage and Reconstruction – Osteomyelitis, deformity correction, limb lengthening, Ilizarov methods, hexapod frames
• Percutaneous Anterior Humeral Plating – surgical techniques, implant development, and outcomes
• 3D Modelling and Printing – complex acute fractures, malunions, and revision joint arthroplasty
• Titanium Truss Cages for Segmental Defects – design considerations, biomechanics, and clinical outcomes
• Masquelet Induced Membranes – clinical use, biological activity, and up-regulation of associated growth factors    
• Talar dome injuries and fractures associated with pilon fractures of the distal tibia – incidence, location, outcomes
• Osseointegration for the Definitive Reconstruction of Amputees
• Extra-Articular Deformity and the Implications for Total Knee Replacement 

• Basic science of bone and joints 

• Improvements in patient education

• Decreasing perioperative morbidity and mortality

• Reducing DVT incidence post arthroplasty surgery

• Reducing incidence of infection post ACL reconstruction

• Ambulatory anaesthesia for knee arthroscopy

• Novel surgical methods for management of nursae and haematomas

• Complex upper limb joint reconstruction and arthroplasty

• Longitudinal study of clinical response treatment

• Distal radius fractures

• Wrist reconstruction

• Upper limb outcome scores

• Outcomes of shoulder and upper limb surgery outcomes
• Shoulder replacement surgery
• Orthopaedic trauma outcomes
• Collaborative Orthopaedic Registries
• Molecular biomarkers in musculoskeletal disease
• Prosthetic joint infections
• Clinical process redesign
• Clinical mentoring and leadership

• ACL reconstruction: return to sport, re-injury rate, graft type, development of OA, motion analysis, psychological aspects

• Patellar instability: MPFL reconstruction

• Hight tibial osteotomy: function and motion analysis

• Total and unicompartmental knee replacement: function and motion analysis

• Lower limb arthroplasty outcomes
• Hip arthroscopy outcomes
• Joint kinematics with image registration
• Bone formation and loss
• Inflammatory joint disease
• Orthopaedic implant materials development
• Trauma theme outcomes
• Prosthetic infection and dislocation

• Hip and knee arthroplasty
• Sports knee
• Trauma

• Surgical outcomes
• Clinical epidemiology
• Clinical trials
• Registries 
• Compensation research
• Trauma, arthroplasty and spine research

• Hip and knee arthroplasty

• Paediatric spinal deformity
• Development dysplasia of the hip
• Paediatric fracture management
• Talipes equinovarus deformity
• Paediatric trauma
• Blood loss in paediatric surgery
• Paediatric joint inflammation
• Slipped capital femoral epiphysis

• Arthroplasty 
• Trauma 
• Hand and wrist

• Distal radius fractures
• Distal femur fractures
• Postoperative wound infections
• Wrist fusions
• Polytrauma