Professor Timothy Board

Tim is Professor of Orthopaedics at The Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington Hospital, Wigan, Lancashire.

He specialises solely in hip and knee problems and his main interest is hip replacement and has been practising as a consultant surgeon in this field for over 12 years.

He undertakes his private practice on the John Charnley Wing at Wrightington Hospital, a specialist orthopaedic hospital that performs more hip and knee replacements and revisions than any other hospital in the UK.

He has recently led innovations in day case hip replacement at Wrightington and hip replacement in children with Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital.

He is active Nationally and Internationally in the filed of hip surgery, currently serving on the executive board of the British Hip Society. Until recently he was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association Research Committee. He is the Greater Manchester NIHR CLRN lead for Orthopaedics. He has published over 80 scientific papers (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=board+t) and currently collaborates with researchers at Leeds, Manchester and Oxford Universities. He has over 3700 citations on Google Scholar and an h-index of 22.

Arthroscopic psoas tendon release for painful psoas after hip replacement

Gluteus maximus transfer for abductor deficiency

Custom total hip replacement

3D Printing for surgery

The painful hip replacement

Infection after hip and knee replacement

Bone graft for revision hip replacement

Hip replacement in children and young adults

Sports after hip replacement surgery

The use of patient specific custom made implants for joint replacement

Day case hip replacement