Mr Paul Nicolai, FRCS (Tr & Orth)

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Specialist Knee Surgeon

Bury St Edmunds

Suffolk

United Kingdom

paul.nicolai@wsh.nhs.uk     01284 713774

Patients with sports injuries are often seen after a significant delay for a variety of reasons. It is not unusual to assess patients with sports injuries months after the event, and the absence of a working diagnosis, inadequate initial treatment and lack of rehabilitation means the inability to play sports for a long period of time. This period of reduced sports activity can lead to further muscle wasting and reduction of the endurance fitness of tissues, which will take a long time to build up again. With this in mind I approached a local physiotherapy practice with an excellent reputation (Bury Physio in Bury St Edmunds), and started Bury Sports Medicine.

Once a week, on a Wednesday night, people can either walk in or make an appointment, and they get assessed by a specialist sports physiotherapist and me. We have learned that this combined approach, looking at biomechanical issues and tissue damage, is an ideal way to get people back to sports rapidly. Advice is given on injury treatment and rehabilitation, sports injury prevention, preparation for events and sports massage.

Although Bury St Edmunds does not have a reputation for top sport, we have been pleasantly surprised by the number of high (regional and national) level of performance sports people who have visited us. We have contracts with Bury Town football club (semi-professional), the local rugby club, a basketball performance team and the sports scholars and elite tennis players from a local private school. We have also treated players from Lashings (charity team of ex-test cricketers), and are bidding to look after Olympic teams visiting the region.

Bury Sports Medicine