Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, UHCW NHS Trust

Clinical Lead for Orthopaedics

Contact details:

Telephone:  024 7624 6443
Fax: 024 7684 4138
Email: desdamina.rai@uhcw.nhs.uk
Private practice enquires: office@timspalding.com
Website: www.timspalding.com

Contact address:

Department of Orthopaedics
Coventry & Warwickshire Hospital
Stoney Stanton Road
Coventry CV1 4FH

Professional profile:

• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a special interest in knee surgery since 1995.
• Qualified from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in London in 1982.
• Orthopaedic training took place mainly through the Royal Navy and also in Oxford at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
• Specialist Sports Knee Surgery Fellowship in Toronto, Canada, at the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital 1994 – 1995 and awarded BOA Travelling fellowship in 1996.
• Consultant post at Royal Hospital Haslar, Gosport, in 1995, developing a special interest in knee surgery while looking after service personnel at home and abroad in the Gulf, Bosnia and Kosovo.
• Joined the Orthopaedic Team in Coventry and Rugby as specialist knee surgeon in 2000; also undertakes emergency care for trauma patients at Coventry.
• Specialist interest in soft tissue ligament reconstruction, cartilage repair and management of the early arthritic knee including the development of special minimally invasive techniques for total knee replacement. 
• Private practice based at Warwickshire Nuffield Hospital and Oak House Medical Group, Coventry
• Chairman of UK meniscal study group.
• UK lead member for ESSKA.
• Conferences organised:
  Sports Knee Surgery 2005: International knee meeting focusing on sports injuries of the knee to early osteoarthritis.
  Masterclass in Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction surgery. Annual conference at Warwickshire Nuffield Hospital.

Clinical interests:

Knee surgery including:  

• Knee instability
• Ligament reconstruction
• Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
• Knee cartilage surgery
• Articular cartilage repair
• Knee replacement surgery
• Minimally invasive techniques for knee replacement
• Mini incision and quads - sparing knee replacement

Research interests:

• Outcome and validation of mini incision total knee replacement.
• Validation of new surgical technique for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction involving tensioner system.

Teaching responsibilities:

• Clinical fellowship programme for Knee Fellow.
• Medical Students.
• Course Convenor of the Warwick Medical School Sports Knee Conference.
• Lecturing for orthopaedic companies.  Masterclass in knee surgery: annual conference.

Selected publiations:

• Hand CJ, Spalding TJ. Association between anatomical features and anterior knee pain in a "fit" service population. J R Nav Med Serv. 2004;90(3):125-34. PubMed
• Selzer G, Ross RA, Spalding TJ. A complicated stress fracture of the femoral neck--a case report. J R Nav Med Serv. 2003;89(1):5-8. PubMed
• Price CJ, Spalding TJ, McKenzie C. Patterns of illness and injury encountered in amateur ocean yacht racing: an analysis of the British Telecom Round the World Yacht Race 1996-1997. Br J Sports Med. 2002;36(6):457-62; PubMed
• Spalding TJ. Effect of femoral offset on motion and abductor muscle strength after total hip arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1996;78(6):997-8. PubMed
• Spalding TJ, Botsford DJ, Ford M, Marks PH. Popliteal artery compression: a complication of Gore-Tex anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1996 Jan;78(1):151-2. PubMed
• Spalding TJ, Jesenko R, Saadi R, Benson MK. Removal of femoral sherman plates--not a simple operation. J Pediatr Orthop B. 1996;5(4):287-91. PubMed
• Spalding TJ, Kiss J, Kyberd P, Turner-Smith A, Simpson AH. Driver reaction times after total knee replacement. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1994;76(5):754-6. PubMed