Information from the Lothian Hand Unit at St John’s Hospital

Joined May 2021
Thanks to @Dupuytrens society for this impressive cross stitch piece. This will be mounted in Hooper Hand Unit at St John’s hospital.
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This webinar series aims to guide attendees through the surgical training application. Participants who attend all seven webinars in this series will be offered free RCSEd Affiliate Membership. Register for tomorrow's webinar here: ow.ly/HvZ150NyEaG
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Lothian Hand Unit retweeted
Within 1yr of primary #knee #arthroplasty, health related #QualityOfLife was back to normal popn levels expected for age, BMI, & sex. *Back to normal* How many other treatments in medicine can claim that? Fabulous work from @lzyapp in @BoneJointJ 👏🏻 boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/…
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Fabulous evening of education in hand surgery held @RCSEd for our hand unit. A good couple of papers discussed and a really interesting presentation by Wee Lam EiC of @JHSEur
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The Edinburgh Hand Course is in progress again. Looking forward to sharing knowledge with our colleagues. @RCSEd #MedTwitter #MedEd
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A most excellent day spent at the Scottish Hand Symposium yesterday. Many great presentations of projects by core & foundation trainees with some advice given for ST applications and how to get a paper accepted.
Lothian Hand Unit retweeted
❓Do you know someone b/w ages 5-16 who’d love to ride a 🚲 but struggles due to disability ❓Free Sat 23rd July, 2-4pm ❗️Invite them to #TryaBike - a new event I’ve set up with @aweepedal & @STEPS_Charity ❗️Adapted & regular 🚲 to try for 🆓 ❗️BOOK eventbrite.com/e/37317765340… – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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Lovely to host dinner with the #IFSSH2022 international fellows. It’s been wonderful to meet you all.
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An absolute pleasure to host some of the @IFSSHand overseas fellows @LothianHand unit this week. Fantastic to be forging links across the world
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Having a Carpal Tunnel Decompression fifevirtualhandclinic.co.uk/… Our carpal tunnel patient very kindly agreed to let us take some pictures - this page is a great way for patients to see exactly what happens at surgery. Check it out!
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A huge welcome to @OrthoMattPod who starts as a consultant with us today. Looking forward to many happy years working with you in the team. 🥳
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Get up to speed with benign and malignant tumours of the hand in our latest overseas webinar which took place on Saturday, hosted by Hywel Dafydd. The faculty for this session included colleagues from the UK and Pakistan 🇵🇰 Thank you to all who tuned in! youtube.com/watch?v=1UvbvScS…
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The Edinburgh Hand Course is up and running again. 3 days of quality learning from one another @RCSEd
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Lothian Hand Unit retweeted
So very proud of the @EdinOrthopaedic trainees who have completed a huge part of their journey. Now FRCS T&O positive. Congratulations chaps. I wish you all the best in your future career @StirlingOrtho @GeorgeDBHolland @OrthoDocTC @OrthoNicholson & Rob Lambert. 🙌
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Big thanks to all our core trainees for their hard work while with us. We wish you all the best on your career journey. Hope to see you back soon!
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Lothian Hand Unit retweeted
NOW MORE THAN EVER, moving and physical activity, if you have a health condition or not, is good for musculoskeletal health, strengthening bones and muscles and stabilising joints. See these resources to help people keep active despite pain arma.uk.net/bonejointweek #BoneJointWeek
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