Ian Trail

Secretary's Telephone number:  01257 256233
 
 
Speciality areas: Specialist interest in Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist and Hand problems (see below)

• MBChB Manchester 1978
• FRCS Edinburgh 1982
• American ECFMG Certification 1987
• MD Manchester 1990
• Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery University of Manchester 1997
• FRCS London 2002
• Treasurer of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society Autumn 2002
• Overseas Member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society 2003
• Elected to the Intercollegiate Board Examiner in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery 2003
• Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Society of Surgery of the Hand 2004
• Editorial Board of the British Journal of Hand Surgery 2005
• Treasurer of the British Hand Society 2006
• Elected to the British Orthopaedic Association Council 2006
• Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery University of Central Lancashire 2006

Speciality Areas:   Surgery of the upper limb, including hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder.  In particular the treatment of osteoarthritis, but also injury, including arthroscopic surgery.
Surgery to the hand and wrist, including Dupuytrens disease, arthritis, sequelae of trauma, wrist arthroscopy, wrist stabilisation, wrist arthroplasty, finger joint replacement and the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
At the elbow debridement for arthritis, joint replacement and the arthroscopic release of contracture.
At the shoulder treatment of arthritis, including arthroplasty but also the arthroscopic treatment of instability and rotator cuff disease.

Brief History:   I was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, practising exclusively in surgery in the upper limb, in 1991.  Currently, I am the senior full time surgeon in the unit and am Head of Department.
I completed my specialist training in the Manchester region, with an additional twelve months working as a Clinical Senior Fellow at The Mayo Clinic in the USA.
My particular area of interest involves the treatment of arthritis at the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.  Specifically, this involves all types of surgery, including arthroscopic (keyhole), through to total joint replacement.  During my seventeen years at Wrightington Hospital, I have undertaken over three thousand arthroscopies of the shoulder, elbow and wrist, as well as over two thousand joint replacements.  I have also been involved in the development of a highly successful range of total shoulder replacements.  These are currently the most widely used in the world.  Finally, developments of the elbow, wrist and hand have also resulted in joint replacements at those sites.  In addition, I have also developed a unique screw and plating system for trauma and fixation in the upper limb.
I have been actively involved in the training of young surgeons, both here at Wrightington, as well as nationally and internationally.  The latter has involved the organisation of courses on various aspects of shoulder, elbow and hand surgery.  The former has involved the training of over one hundred young surgeons who are now consultants, either here at Wrightington or at other hospitals in the United Kingdom.

Publications:   To date I have sixty four published articles in peer review journals and several more are under preparation.
I have given over three hundred presentations/lectures to learned societies.
I have written nine book chapters and am currently preparing two single authored text books on conditions of the upper limb.

Research Projects:   Here at Wrightington I have built one of the foremost musculo-skeletal research units in the United Kingdom.  Upto this time, we have received grants in excess of 1.5 million.  Our research has included the detailed outcome analysis of joint replacement in the upper limb, particularly the shoulder and elbow, but also the wrist and hand.  Added to this are numerous basic science studies, together with the outcomes of numerous routine orthopaedic procedures.  The latter has resulted in the development of a number of new techniques, many of which are now in widespread use.