joint action news - december 2010

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FACT: Tra�c accidents cause 360,000 injuries each year in the UK

FACT: According to the World Health Organisation, by the end of 2010, 25% of worldwide healthcare expenditure will be on trauma care

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BOA Newsletter Dec Outer.pdf 02/12/2010 11:46:38

Martha Lane Fox, Co-founder of lastminute.com and business entrepreneur, gives thanks to the orthopaedic community for the support she received after a devastating car accident. “Following a road tra�c accident in Morocco, I was left on a desert roadside with a shattered pelvis, internal bleeding and almost every bone in my body broken. Thanks to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of my friends, I managed to get back to the John Radcli�e Centre in Oxford where I was put back together, literally piece by piece. My arm is metal, my leg is metal and my pelvis is fairly metal but I am alive and for this reason, I cannot emphasise enough the importance of orthopaedics and how it can change people’s lives. Joint Action is the British Orthopaedic Association’s research appeal and for this reason, I am delighted to lend my support and put out a call for new ideas to �nd ways to improve care and raise the much needed funds for orthopaedic research.”

Since our last newsletter, Danielle has had

some exciting opportunities. She and her

family were asked to visit the

currently-being-built Olympic Park for an

exclusive tour. Lauren from Joint Action was

also invited along. Danielle really enjoyed

herself and came away with many gifts which

included a signed card from Lord Sebastian

Coe and a hard hat!

Danielle was nominated for an award in

She�eld’s Night of Honour which was held on

her 12th birthday.

Danielle also attended a reception on 9th

December 2010 at Buckingham Palace in

recognition of St John’s Ambulance Young

Achievers and had the opportunity to meet

the hostess, the Patron of St John’s Ambulance,

HRH The Princess Royal.

More funds are still needed to do more

research into paediatric orthopaedic

conditions. You can help!

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is what it will cost to manufacture a ‘Shoulder Testing Rig’ for the development of a protocol that will safely advise when to return to the use of a ‘steering wheel’ after surgery.-----------------------------------------

£9,000

Major Limb TraumaDanielle’s Doing Fine Martha’s Story

Who is a�ected?

Anyone of any age can su�er injuries such as

fractures, crushing, dislocations, amputations

and damage to nerves and blood vessels.

Occupational injury and road tra�c accidents

are major causes of musculoskeletal trauma,

with tra�c accidents alone causing 360,000

injuries each year in the UK. By 2010, 25% of

worldwide health care expenditure will be on

trauma care.

What is Joint Action doing to help?

“When can I start driving again after surgery?” is

a question commonly asked by patients before

and after orthopaedic surgery. Studies about

driving ability have been done using a testing

rig to simulate normal driving conditions after

surgery of the hip, knee and the ankle but there

is no available information about the �tness to

drive after shoulder surgery. With the generous

assistance of the Sir Samuel Scott of Yews Trust

and The William Coxen Trust, Joint Action has

been able to fund Andrew Wallace in Imperial

College, London to design a driving testing rig

to assess the �tness of patients to drive with

shoulder problems before and after surgery. The

rig simulates the mechanics of driving and can

test the driving reaction time and steering

accuracy both left and right. These tests

correlate with the time it would take for a

patient to steer a car with standard power

assisted steering out of an obstacle in an

emergency. With so many of us dependent on

driving for work and pleasure, this test will

ensure that orthopaedic patients do not return

to driving before it is safe to do so.

What does the future hold?

When the body is injured, after blood �ow has

been stemmed and any emergency surgery

undertaken, the patient will often feel intense

pain, swelling and sti�ness and uncontrolled

in�ammation. Work needs to be done to

develop optimum strategies to prevent and

treat the body’s reaction to injury. It is also

important that work continues to develop new

implants to �x fractures to all bones and how

best to treat bone infection. By increasing

detailed understanding of the mechanisms of

injury it will be possible to help prevent some

occupational, sports and vehicle accidents and

improve the delivery of trauma services and

how best to improve the rapid rehabilitation of

patients and their return to work.

BOA Newsletter Dec Inner.pdf 02/12/2010 11:46:56

Martha Lane Fox, Co-founder of lastminute.com and business entrepreneur, gives thanks to the orthopaedic community for the support she received after a devastating car accident. “Following a road tra�c accident in Morocco, I was left on a desert roadside with a shattered pelvis, internal bleeding and almost every bone in my body broken. Thanks to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of my friends, I managed to get back to the John Radcli�e Centre in Oxford where I was put back together, literally piece by piece. My arm is metal, my leg is metal and my pelvis is fairly metal but I am alive and for this reason, I cannot emphasise enough the importance of orthopaedics and how it can change people’s lives. Joint Action is the British Orthopaedic Association’s research appeal and for this reason, I am delighted to lend my support and put out a call for new ideas to �nd ways to improve care and raise the much needed funds for orthopaedic research.”