Mr Andrew Carrothers was awarded the iWantGreatCare certificate of excellence in 2024 for delivering outstanding care.

 

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Written by a private patient at Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital
11th December 2023


At my initial consultation with Mr Carrothers I felt completely at ease as it was very easy to talk to him about the issue with my knee and the options that lay ahead of me. At no point did he try and force a particular operation on me, and following a review of X-rays and MRI scans his recommended approach made absolute sense and I was completely comfortable. During the day of the operation he was a model of professionalism, and was very calm and reassuring both prior to the procedure and afterwards. The operation was a great success, I had no pain in the following days, and my recovery has been very quick. I have since seen Mr Carrothers for a final consultation and he is pleased with the outcome, and therefore I am very pleased. I would highly recommend Mr Carrothers for knee surgery.

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Written by a private patient at Nuffield Hospital Cambridge
25th November 2023


I would like to share my experience of having a total hip replacement by Mr. Andrew Carrothers, consultant orthopaedic specialist. My treatment and care by Mr. Carrothers and his team has been excellent throughout. During my first consultation the procedure, using Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Surgery, was fully explained to myself and my husband by Mr. Carrothers, this would be performed under a spinal anaesthetic by Dr. Maroof. We were confident and agreed to go ahead. The pre assessment, blood tests etc, CT Scan, were arranged prior to surgery. I was admitted to hospital on the morning of my surgery and seen by Mr. Carrothers and Dr. Maroof and of course the nurses in preparation. Everything went very well and my progress was monitored well by Mr. Carrothers, nurses and physiotherapists. I was discharged home with adequate analgesia and other medication, crutches and appointments for the wound dressing clinic, physiotherapy and a six week meeting with Mr. Carrothers. My progress has been very good, it is six weeks since surgery and l am well on the way to recovery. Thank you so much to Mr. Carrothers and his team.

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Written by a private patient at Nuffield Hospital Cambridge
8th November 2023


What I discovered (and wish I’d known) 5 weeks and 4 days after my total knee replacement op. 1. My part in my TKR is a part time job, but it affects my mobility and the rest of my quality of life. Worth a lot of effort. I’m streets ahead of many people who had their TKR before me. I’ve been massively motivated by wanting to get my life back, wanting to look after my grandchildren and garden, walk miles across the fields. It’s good to think about your TKR in terms of you needing to prioritise your part in its success with lots of effort and physiotherapy. You can help yourself a lot. 2. PHYSIOTHERAPY AND LARGE EXERCISE BALLS - the TKR is the first part of regaining movement. The second part (physiotherapy) is equally vital and only you can do it. Exercises to straighten and bend your knee, exercises to rebuild the neural pathways so you can walk properly and others to help you balance. All this 3 times a day, plus walking twice a day, increasing your distance, stride and confidence. Use ice packs and pain relief to ease pain and reduce swelling. When you can’t initially do an exercise bearing weight, do it without full weight. Sitting on a big exercise ball and rolling it back and forth is less painful and very effective at achieving an improvement in bending your knee and less painful than bending and holding in pain. If you don’t do the (sometimes painful) work to increase flexion beyond a right angle, you won’t be able to kneel. Start with many gentle quick repetitions and build to slower ones. 3. CRUTCHES: crutches are helpful, until they’re not. Using crutches helps to get going, but you’ll not proceed past a certain point until you give up the crutches. First give them up in the house then outside. You legs and knees are working differently when you’re on crutches - 100% different in my case. I felt unsteady and thought I needed crutches BUT it was only when I gave them up my walking asymmetry started to return to normal and my balance improved. 4. HEALTH APPS My smartphone gives me Apple Health free. Look on your phone if you can or install a health app. Apple Health has a section ‘Show all health data’ this gives really useful daily information on several relevant functions such as walking symmetry, double support time and step length. You can track your progress daily. 5. MUSCLES MAKING A FUSS - ‘WHERE ARE OUR BONES?’ Rebuilding neural pathways. I had a few hours immediately after my replacement when my knee muscles went into strong, involuntary and painful spasm. Nearest analogy - like the end of the first stage of labour in childbirth. It hurts a lot and it passes. Most people don’t get it. I understood later it was my muscles and neural pathways panicking. Effectively they’re in spasm as they look to re-establish the link between brain and bone. The old neural pathways have been severed and must re-connect so the knee works again. It’s hard work. Part of the essential Physiotherapy.

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Written by a private patient at Nuffield Hospital Cambridge
8th November 2023


What I discovered (and wish I’d known) 5 weeks and 4 days after my total knee replacement op. 1. My part in my TKR is a part time job, but it affects my mobility and the rest of my quality of life. Worth a lot of effort. I’m streets ahead of many people who had their TKR before me. I’ve been massively motivated by wanting to get my life back, wanting to look after my grandchildren and garden, walk miles across the fields. It’s good to think about your TKR in terms of you needing to prioritise your part in its success with lots of effort and physiotherapy. You can help yourself a lot. 2. PHYSIOTHERAPY AND LARGE EXERCISE BALLS - the TKR is the first part of regaining movement. The second part (physiotherapy) is equally vital and only you can do it. Exercises to straighten and bend your knee, exercises to rebuild the neural pathways so you can walk properly and others to help you balance. All this 3 times a day, plus walking twice a day, increasing your distance, stride and confidence. Use ice packs and pain relief to ease pain and reduce swelling. When you can’t initially do an exercise bearing weight, do it without full weight. Sitting on a big exercise ball and rolling it back and forth is less painful and very effective at achieving an improvement in bending your knee and less painful than bending and holding in pain. If you don’t do the (sometimes painful) work to increase flexion beyond a right angle, you won’t be able to kneel. Start with many gentle quick repetitions and build to slower ones. 3. CRUTCHES: crutches are helpful, until they’re not. Using crutches helps to get going, but you’ll not proceed past a certain point until you give up the crutches. First give them up in the house then outside. You legs and knees are working differently when you’re on crutches - 100% different in my case. I felt unsteady and thought I needed crutches BUT it was only when I gave them up my walking asymmetry started to return to normal and my balance improved. 4. HEALTH APPS My smartphone gives me Apple Health free. Look on your phone if you can or install a health app. Apple Health has a section ‘Show all health data’ this gives really useful daily information on several relevant functions such as walking symmetry, double support time and step length. You can track your progress daily. 5. MUSCLES MAKING A FUSS - ‘WHERE ARE OUR BONES?’ Rebuilding neural pathways. I had a few hours immediately after my replacement when my knee muscles went into strong, involuntary and painful spasm. Nearest analogy - like the end of the first stage of labour in childbirth. It hurts a lot and it passes. Most people don’t get it. I understood later it was my muscles and neural pathways panicking. Effectively they’re in spasm as they look to re-establish the link between brain and bone. The old neural pathways have been severed and must re-connect so the knee works again. It’s hard work. Part of the essential Physiotherapy.

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Written by a private patient at Nuffield Hospital Cambridge
7th November 2023


I had a total hip replacement eight weeks ago, under the care of Mr Andrew Carrothers at the Nuffield hospital. I can absolutely recommend him and his team. I was apprehensive as I am 74 and have other health issues but Mr Carrothers took time to explain everything and was so kind and helpful. Dr Maroof the anaesthetist who cared for me was extremely thorough and put me at ease and I was happy to go ahead. The first two weeks were tiring but I am now pain free and recovering well. I am so pleased that I went to Mr Carrothers, I definitely made the right decision to go to him.

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Andrew is a specialist hip and knee surgeon with interests in pelvic & acetabular surgery, hip and knee replacements, ankle and lower limb trauma reconstructive surgery.

Since 2012 he has been a Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery at Addenbrookes, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He also consults and operates at the Spire Lea Cambridge and Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospitals. In addition he is a Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps (V), having served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

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