Choose expert, compassionate care
Choose a St John of God Health Care hospital for your orthopaedic care and you’re choosing expert, compassionate care, your specialist and the timing of your procedure. Whether it’s knees, hips, hands, arms, legs or back, you’re choosing total care from pre-surgery through to rehabilitation. All things that can help manage the natural anxiety that comes with any procedure.
Browse our experienced orthopaedic surgeons to find a specialist you can trust.
Orthopaedics includes
Joint replacements for hip, knee, shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist, foot and ankle
Joint replacement is a procedure that allows a hip, knee, shoulder, hand and wrist, or foot and ankle joint to be surgically replaced with an artificial orthopaedic prosthesis. Joint replacement procedures are offered to provide relief from arthritic pain or to fix physical joint damage.
Foot and ankle disorders
Orthopaedic foot and ankle disorders can result from damage to bone, muscle, or soft tissue. Causes can vary, with ankle sprains and fractures often coming from twists, or awkward landings. Arthritis can also affect the foot and ankle joints, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and post-traumatic arthritis.
Sports-related injury management
Sports injuries are commonly represented by sprains, strains, joint cartilage or ligament injuries, fractures, dislocations, and rotator cuff injuries. Serious sports-related injuries often cause immediate pain and swelling, and may require orthopaedic assessment.
Spinal injuries
Orthopaedic surgical intervention may be required for some spinal injuries such as a spinal cord compressed by a herniated disc, a collection of blood, a vertebral fracture or tumour. Spinal surgery can involve decompression or spinal stabilisation.
Paediatric orthopaedics
Paediatric orthopaedics is focused on musculoskeletal (bone, joint, or muscle) problems in children ranging from newborn babies through to teenagers. These conditions may include trauma, sports injuries, developmental conditions, gait problems and peripheral nerve injuries.
Providing exceptional orthopaedic services
Technology and robotics in orthopaedic surgery
When you hear about robots and the latest surgical techniques in orthopaedic surgery it can be hard to know what this means for you as a patient. Find out everything you need to know about how orthopaedic surgery technology is helping to enhance surgical outcomes and your hospital experience.
Rehabilitation after orthopaedic surgery
After orthopaedic surgery, particularly on your knee or hip, your mobility can be limited. Our rehabilitation care helps get you moving again.
Recovery at home
When you leave hospital after orthopaedic surgery, our home visiting nurses can support your recovery, giving extra reassurance once you are back at home.
Learn from our orthopaedic experts
Whether you are considering surgery for your knees, hips, hands, arms, legs or back, get all the information you need from our orthopaedic experts to help you prepare for surgery, for your hospital stay or to help you through your rehabilitation.
