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Mr Tim Clough is a Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon who specialises exclusively in adult foot and ankle disorders and sports injuries. He currently offers foot and ankle consultations, advice and surgery following referrals from a wide range of Premiership and Championship football teams, super league rugby teams, a local premiership rugby union team and a range of other elite sporting organisations.
Qualifying from the Universities of St Andrews, Scotland and Manchester, he gained his specialist training through an International Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine Fellowship in Canada. During his training he won both the Sanofi Synthelabo Travelling Fellowship prize and the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (BOFAS) Travelling Fellowship prize. He is an NHS Consultant at Wrightington Hospital, where he sees both GP referrals and complex tertiary referrals from other surgeons from all over the North of England.
He has a particular interest in sporting ankle injuries, ankle arthroscopy, bunion surgery and ankle and big toe joint replacement surgery. He regularly presents as invited Faculty member at regional, national and international meetings. He has been invited onto the International Faculty evaluating ankle joint replacment design, is a specialist advisor to NICE for the Interventional Procedures Programme and is CoEditor-in-Chief of 'The Foot' Journal.
He has published articles on ankle and big toe joint replacement surgery, day case forefoot surgery, enhanced recovery after joint replacements, trauma foot surgery and the role of PRP in plantar fasciitis. He is a keen teacher, is Clinical Supervisor and trainer to the Wrightington Fellow on BOA Leadership Programme, is an elected member of the Outcomes Committee of the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, is on the International Advisory Board of a peer reviewed journal, and has sat as External Examiner for the School of Medicine BMSc programme at the University of Dundee. His current areas of research include clinical outcome of ankle replacements, treatment options for failed bunion surgery and pioneering treatment outcomes for chronic achilles tendinopathy.
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Education:
University of St Andrews, Scotland and Manchester - BSc (Hons), MB ChB.
Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS Trauma&Orth)
Memberships:
British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society
British Orthopaedic Association
General Medical Council
Royal College of Surgeons of England
