25 January 2012 02:20

Healthcare

New sports clinics at hospitals

Patients from Boston and Louth who have sports injuries are set to benefit from two new clinics that have been set up in their area.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has developed new sports and soft tissue knee clinics at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston and Louth County Hospital.

These clinics aim to provide expert help and advice to local sports people who have been injured.

The new clinics will focus on a number of specific areas including anterior cruciate ligament injury; knee pain and instability of the knee cap among others.

Mr Dipak Raj, Consultant Lower Limb Orthopaedic Surgeon with special interests in sports injury surgery, decided to open the new clinics to provide a service to local sports people as he has a special interest in sports and soft tissue knee problems.

He said: “We are really pleased to have set up the new clinics. Patients will now be able to be treated locally rather than having to travel further afield to receive treatment. I believe this will be well received by local people.”

Mr Dareen Tyrie was one of the first patients to be treated at Boston. He said he felt that the service had really helped to aid his recovery.

Dareen said: "I had an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery done by Mr Raj. I am very happy with the treatment and recommend this treatment to others who have ruptured their anterior cruciate ligament of the knee."

Both clinics in Boston and Louth treated their first patients at the end of 2011.

Photo: Mr Raj, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

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