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Mr James Robinson is an experienced and skilled specialist knee surgeon with a demonstrated international reputation. His NHS practice is based at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol - the tertiary referral centre for complex knee problems in the South West where he runs weekly Knee Injury Clinics. He has particular interest in arthroscopic "key-hole" surgery, ligament reconstruction, partial knee replacement as well as cartilage and meniscus repair and the treatment of early arthritis. He is often referred complex cases from around the region and has been invited to demonstrate surgery in Europe, Asia and North America. He is regularly invited to lecture and teach around the world and has been the invited guest international speaker at the Norwegian Arthroscopy Society, the Australian Knee Society the Danish Society of Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology and the Turkish Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy & Knee Surgery Congress. His regular presence at International meetings has given him an invaluable exposure to the latest evidence and state-of -the-art treatments.

James is a past winner of the British Association of Surgery of the Knee President's medal. He has published many research articles and book chapters on knee surgery and received awards both nationally and internationally for knee research. His other roles include: chairman of theESSKA (European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy) Collateral Ligaments Group, member of the ESSKA Arthroscopy Committee, member of the International Meniscus Reconstruction Forum and member of the prestigious international ACL Study Group (of which there have been only 10 surgeons elected from the UK). He is a reviewer for the American Journal of Sports Medicine, and on the steering committee for the UK National Ligament registry - improving best practices by constant analysis of knee ligament reconstruction outcomes.

James undertook his orthopaedic training in London where he was also Clinical Research Fellow in Sports Trauma Surgery at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine. Here he published his thesis on knee ligament injuries and was awarded a Master of Surgery degree by the University of London. Following this he spent a year's fellowship in Bordeaux at the ‘Clinique du Sport' (an institution consistently rated as France's pre-eminent sports medicine clinic). He was trained in the latest techniques in arthroscopic ("Key-hole") surgery, including Anatomic ‘Double-bundle' Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction. In France he became proficient in the use of computer-assisted surgery (CAS) for knee reconstruction and replacement. He spent a further six month's fellowship in the UK specialising in partial (unicompartmental) knee replacement. Recently James undertook an 18-month sabbatical in the United Arab Emirates where he developed a meniscal transplant service and looked after many patients with complex knee problems.

James acts as a consultant to several orthopaedic industry companies and has developed surgical techniques and instruments to assist knee ligament reconstructions, cartilage treatment, meniscal repair and partial knee replacements.

James has a keen sporting interest and previously captained his university cricket side. He remains a keen golfer, tennis player and in the winter enjoys ski-mountaineering.

• ACL Reconstruction
• Meniscal Repair
• Meniscus Transplant
• Knee Cartilage Surgery
• Cartilage Repair
• Knee Ligament Repair
• Knee Preservation Surgery
• Multiligament Reconstruction
• Osteotomy
• Partial Knee Replacement
• Total Knee Replacement
• Robotic Assisted Knee Surgery
• Knee Cartilage Surgery

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction

Revision ACL reconstruction

Meniscus Repair

Meniscus Transplant

Partial Knee Replacement