What Patients to Refer
- Hip and knee arthritis
- Previous joint replacements of the lower limb
- Potential hip impingement
- Hip, knee and ankle problems
- Lower limb compartment syndrome
- Other lower limb orthopaedic problems
Areas of Surgical interest
- Hip and knee replacement surgery (both areas computer navigated)
- Revision hip and knee surgery
- Computer assisted knee realignment surgery (high tibial osteotomy)
- Knee and ankle arthroscopy
- ACL reconstruction including revision ACL reconstruction
- Patellofemoral surgery including stabilisation
- Lower extremity orthopaedic surgery
Funding
As Julian no longer has a public practice he cannot place patients on the public surgical waiting list. This means if patients require surgery to be performed by him funding must be available (typically through ACC, private medical insurance or the patient self funding). Please make patients aware of this so that they do not incur unnecessary expense by having an initial appointment with Julian and then require a further referral on to one of his colleagues who works in the public system. This is not only expensive for the patient but time consuming for both the patient and Julian. It may also delay their treatment.
Making Appointments
- Call Orthopaedic House between 8.30 am and 5.00 pm on
06 769 5634 - Fax Orthopaedic House on 06 769 6533 with “attention Julie” on the fax
- E-mail Julian's nurse, Julie at julie@orthohouse.co.nz
If the phone is busy please leave a message and we will get back to you. If you have a query about any patient please e-mail Julian at jstoddart@orthohouse.co.nz and he will reply that day or the next.
Why Julian has Sub-specialised
During 2011 90% of Julian's surgeries were on the lower limb (17% hip, 60% knee, 13% foot and ankle). The majority of these surgeries were knee arthroscopies, ACL reconstructions and hip and knee replacements.
In Julian's current practice he sees a lot of young to middle age patients with knee injuries and a large number of patients of all ages with hip and knee arthritis. Consequently, he has limited his practice to lower limb adult reconstruction and sports medicine.
Julian believes his patients benefit greatly from seeing a sub-specialist especially because the range of conditions, investigations and interventions has increased. Julian's decision to stop consulting on upper limb (and previously spine) reflects the greater amount of time he has spent gaining expertise in lower limb work.
In additional to Julian's areas of surgical expertise he is interested in:
- Further applications and refinements of computer navigated lower limb surgery (Julian is a regular attendee at national user group meetings)
- Wound dressings (Julian is currently involved in helping set up an international multidisciplinary study)
- ACL fixation (Julian has been invited to join a teaching panel instructing other surgeons in Australasia on a particular form of fixation)
- Hip replacement development (Julian has been invited to join an evaluation group for an evolution of a current hip replacement)
- Patient outcome scoring (Julian's joint replacements are all scored to assess outcomes objectively)
- Patient education and communication
Julian currently operates every six weeks with a colleague where they assist one another in performing difficult cases such as revision joint surgery. This is at no additional charge to the patient. The patient benefits from having two experienced surgeons at their surgery.
Thank you for your ongoing support. If you have any requests for information that may help you in regards to Good Bones Orthopaedics Ltd please contact Julian Stoddart directly or send feed back here.