Top gong for Southport sports injury surgeon

Top gong for Southport sports injury surgeon

A surgeon has received a major international award for his work on a common knee injury that left untreated can end the sports careers of professional and recreational athletes.

Liverpool Danny Ings, Everton’s Yannick Bolasie and Manchester United’s Marcos Rojo are just three Premier League footballers who have suffered injury to an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

Mr Adnan Saithna, a specialist sports knee and shoulder injury consultant surgeon at Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, was presented with the Richard J O’Connor Award by the Arthroscopy Association of North America in Denver, Colorado last month.

The award was given for research that was conducted through his collaboration with the FIFA Centre for Medical Excellence at the Santy Clinic in Lyon, headed by Dr Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet, a world renowned sports knee surgeon.

The research shows that their surgical reconstruction technique for dealing with ACL injury results in a three-fold reduction in failure rates after surgery and significantly improves rates of return to pre-injury levels of sport when compared to standard reconstruction techniques.

Mr Saithna said: “This award is really a very big deal. It is a major international award and has been won previously by some huge international names in knee surgery.

“It shows that our hospital is collaborating in world class research and can offer cutting edge surgical techniques not just to people in Southport and Ormskirk but across Merseyside and the North West too.”