A Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in hip and knee joint surgery, including joint replacement, hip resurfacing, revision surgery and minimal invasive surgery of both the hip and knee. He also offers conservative treatments such as keyhole surgery and injection therapies.
Mr Hugh Clarke is a Consultant Hip and Knee Surgeon, based in the East Hampshire and West Sussex region since 1994.
Having graduated from the Middlesex Hospital in London 1980, Mr Clarke conducted his specialist higher surgical training in orthopaedics at the Wessex Orthopaedic Hospital and Southampton University Hospitals.
Research
Mr Clarke has undertaken a number of clinical and research fellowships around the world. In 1988 he was a fellow to Dr RH Jinnah and Dr L Riley, performing total joint and reconstructive surgery at the John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland USA. He saw major reconstructive surgery using massive bone grafting and custom total hip replacements and the use of several uncemented prostheses.
In 1992 he undertook an AO fellowship at Kantonsspital, Chur, Switzerland under Prof Thomas
Ruedi. This allowed him to observe the management of their major trauma service, and gave him the most up to date clinical developments and research into trauma and prostheses. He was able to observe their methods of treatment of multiple injuries, and fixation techniques.
He also visited Prof Ganz in Berne to observe the Berne Periacetabular osteotomies for hip dysplasia.
Hip and knee surgery in Portsmouth, Hampshire
Mr Clarke performed a total of 217 major operations in 2007 and 175 intermediate and minor procedures. Surgical treatment is usually offered within four weeks of consultation.
Mr Clarke does the majority of his major joint replacement surgery under spinal anaesthetic (or epidural). This freezes the lower legs giving complete pain relief. Patients can have additional sedation if required. This helps to give good post operative pain relief for the first few hours and tends to reduce the amounts of sickness in the post operative period.
A full general anaesthetic is also available for those patients that wish. General anaesthetic is a low risk procedure and can be combined with local anaesthetic blocks to reduce the pain of hip and knee replacement surgery. Modern general anaesthesia is a generally safe procedure. Patients with significant medical problems are regularly considered and accepted.
The average patient after joint replacement will have a hospital stay of 5 days and will require crutches for between 2-4 weeks
Treatments offered
Hip replacement surgery
Knee surgery
Published papers
Mr Clarke has published many clinical papers on bone grafting, joint replacement surgery, ankle injuries and outcomes in revision hip replacement surgery.
Professional memberships
Private hospitals for consulting
Hospitals at which Mr Clarke consults:-
Contact details
c/o Mrs Sarah Amos
Private Secretary
45 Deeside Avenue
Fishbourne
West Sussex
PO19 3QG
Tele/fax (01243) 773031
Email: hugh@thr.me.uk
Web: www.hampshirehip.com
