London Experts

Adrian Wilson

A leading Knee/Sports injury Specialist operating out of London and Basingstoke.

Mr Wilson is a true innovator, pioneering surgical techniques and developing a number of instruments, several of which are used routinely and internationally. Adrian Wilson has led the way in “all inside” ACL and PCL surgery and become a leading figure internationally in respect to Osteotomy Surgery. Adrian has retained a strong interest in Education and Training – performing live surgery regularly around the world at major meetings since 2011, as well as running a number of his own successful surgical training Events, including the Osteotomy Masterclass – a 2 day event in its 7th year www.basingstokeknee.org. ACL repair Mr Wilson has modified a new technique to allow repair over reconstruction, providing significantly improved rehabilitation – This is especially useful in children and Mr Wilson receives many tertiary referrals for young children with this potentially devastating injury.

Anterolateral ligament Mr Wilson pioneered the technique for the new Anterolateral ligament replacement with the first anatomic ALL being carried out in Nov 2012 in Basingstoke. The technique has become routine practice globally for many leading knee surgeons. Osteotomy surgery Mr Wilson is a global name in knee Osteotomy surgery and treats patients from all over the world. He has led the resurgence of this procedure in the UK and is a founding member of the UK expert Osteotomy group and UKKOR, the first national database dedicated to Osteotomy surgery. Working with the group, collectively they have collected a dataset that is now the largest followed group of Osteotomy patients in the world. Mr Wilson has developed several new techniques in Osteotomy surgery that have made the operation truly minimally invasive – with excellent outcomes and rapid recovery. Leading the way in teaching Osteotomy surgery, Mr Wilson has made a series of highly detailed surgical technique videos which are frequently used by knee surgeons as a guide to how to do this challenging surgery. He won the prestigious Alwin Jaeger award for best surgical training video at the ESSKA meeting in 2014 as well as the best paper award. Mr Wilson has links to imperial and Winchester universities where he carries out his basic science research projects. He is committed to education and runs a successful knee fellowship for senior training knee surgeons.

Michael Risebury

A leading Knee/Sports injury Specialist operating out of London and Basingstoke.

Mr Risebury’s medical education started at Cambridge University’s Pembroke College, where he gained an MA (Hons) Degree in Cognitive Psychology in 1995. He completed his MB BS (Hons) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Medical School, London in 1998. Pre-registration House Officer posts in medicine and surgery were at Kingston Hospital and St Peter’s Hospital in Surrey. His Basic Surgical Training was in S.E. Thames, and a keen interest in Orthopaedic Surgery developed into a period as a Senior House Officer in Orthopaedics at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester. After working as a Registar Fellow in Southampton University Hospital he gained a place as a Specialist Registrar on the Wessex Training Programme in 2004. From January 2009 Mr Risebury spent 12 months in Brisbane, Australia working at The Brisbane Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre with Dr Peter Myers and Dr Peter McMeniman. This Internationally recognised Fellowship in Knee Surgery and Sports Orthopaedics helped prepare him for a Consultant Post as an Orthopaedic Surgeon with a special interest in all aspects of Knee Surgery.

Having worked as a Locum Consultant in Orthopaedics at Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust from July 2010, he was appointed into a substantive (permanent) Consultant Post as of November 2010. Since then his private practice has developed at The Hampshire Clinic. His practice includes all aspects of Knee Surgery. Special interests are sports injuries, arthroscopic surgery, ligament reconstruction, meniscal preservation (repair), cartilage surgery, osteotomy (re-alignment), aswell as total and partial knee replacement. Mr Risebury is actively involved in teaching programmes for other medical professionals, regularly lecturing nationally and internationally. He has been a faculty member on several courses teaching surgical technique in areas such as ACL reconstruction, meniscal repair and osteotomy. Research is an important part of his ongoing professional development, and he has presented and published several scientific papers on various aspects of orthopaedics and particularly knee surgery.