Orthopaedic Specialists’ foot and ankle expert, Professor Nima Heidari is a leading orthopaedic and trauma surgeon with a dedicated focus on foot and ankle conditions including trauma, sports injuries and lower limb reconstruction.

Joint preservation is the use of non-surgical or surgical means to preserve a deteriorating joint to delay or avoid joint replacement surgery.

Limb lengthening and reconstruction techniques are used to replace missing bone and to lengthen and/or straighten deformed bone segments.

Soft tissue injuries are injuries related to the soft tissues of the body such as muscle, tendon, ligament and nerve. Sprains, strains, contusions, tendinitis, bursitis and stress injuries are the most common soft tissue injuries.

Sports injuries occur when playing indoor or outdoor sports or while exercising. Sports injuries can result from accidents, inadequate training, improper use of protective devices, or insufficient stretching or warm-up exercises.

There are a number of conditions which can cause joint pain including damage to the cartilage that lines the ends of the bones (articular cartilage) either from arthritis, a fracture or another condition.

Our expert pain management team, headed by Dr Stefano Palmisani, can treat the whole range of conditions rom chronic spinal pain to chronic painful pelvic pain or persistent headache syndromes such as migraines.