We are pleased to announce that DSU’s David Clark has been elected as the Treasurer of the British Elbow & Shoulder Society and Amol Tambe has joined the Education Committee!

DSU’s upper limb physiotherapy practitioner, Lisa Pitt, was awarded the British Elbow & Shoulder Society’s AHP Travelling Fellowship last week at their annual scientific conference in Harrogate. Lisa will use the award to visit specialist shoulder units in Liverpool and Stanmore before travelling to Holland for the European Society of Shoulder & Elbow Rehabilitation conference.  She […]

DSU were well represented at the British Elbow & Shoulder Society annual conference in Harrogate this year.  We presented four podium presentations on a wide range of topics: Davies-Jones G, Morgan M, Ibrahim E, Booker S, Bateman M, Tambe AA, Espag M, Cresswell T, Clark DI.  Shoulder arthroplasty enhanced recovery – reducing length of inpatient […]

In May 2019 we hosted two cadaveric courses: one for surgeons and one for physiotherapists.  The event was generously supported by Arthrex UK.  Both courses were fully subscribed with excellent feedback.  One delegate tweeted “today’s upper limb physio cadaver course has to be the best CPD day I’ve ever been to”. The surgeons were able […]

Consultant surgeon Amol Tambe and consultant physiotherapist Marcus Bateman were invited to speak at the ISKSAA conference in New Delhi, the Pune Shoulder & Elbow Arthroplasty Conference and the Chennai Elbow Conclave in March 2019. All were very well attended and highly educational meetings.

With thanks to Oscar Vila Dieguez (@Shoulder-PT) the instability rehab programme has been translated into Spanish!  Click here to download.

We have now published the instability rehab programme instructions in Italian with the help of Sebastiano Nutarelli. Derby Shoulder Instability Rehabilitation Programme ITALIAN

We have just launched our new shoulder enhanced recovery pathway for all patients having a shoulder replacement!  This aims to improve patient understanding, experience, outcome and length of stay following surgery.  The package involves a pre-operative patient education session run by physio, occupational therapy and nursing staff; an updated medication regime to enable early movement […]

Click here for a copy of our shoulder instability pathway

From May 15-June 2 we host two international visiting fellows from ISKSAA: Dr Prince Gupta and Dr Mohit Arora