Courtesy: Prof Justin Cobb, Imperial College, London, UK
Justin is the Chair of Orthopaedics at Imperial college, where he runs the MSk Lab, in the Sir Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Hub – 12 floors of clinicians engineers and scientists. The focus of his laboratory work is joint preservation, with novel devices such as H1, the world’s first all ceramic hip resurfacing. The other focus is on assistive technologies – robotics, 3d printers and enhanced reality headsets all help make us better surgeons.
Clinically Justin’s work again focuses on joint preservation, both hip resurfacing and compartmental knee arthroplasty.
After training in Oxford and London, Justin was consultant orthopaedic surgeon at UCL from 1991 to 2005. He was appointed to King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in 1998 and became orthopaedic Surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen in 1998. He is a member of the International Hip Society, the European Knee Society, and is ex president of CAOS International.
Dear Prof. Dr. Justin Cobb,
Prof.Dr.Winter said you are the person to contact when I want a ceramic Hip surface replacement.
I am an ex Track Athlete, and KickBoxer. I have a light – medium Hip displasiya which lead into a impingment. Due the impingment I got a cartilage damage.
Prof. Dr. Winter said (after doing an x-ray) that my hip is good to perform a surface replacement.
Now my questions are:
– what are the cons for a surface replacement?
– why did your project with Dr. Winter (getting the CE-Certificate for the ceramic surface replacement in germany) wasn´t successfull?
– can I do all the physical tasks needed in SOF (I´m a cop) after the replacment again?
– what kind of physical tasks I shouldn´t do?
– whats the average life span of that protheses?
– how much woud it cost me?
Thank you in advance!
Best regards,
Chris