Mr Oliver provides the following treatments at Benenden Hospital:
Your damaged hip joint is replaced with an artificial joint to ease pain and discomfort, improve movement and quality of life.
Our robotic-assisted knee replacement procedure offers faster recovery from surgery, so you can get back to doing what you love.
Your damaged or worn knee joint is replaced with an artificial joint to reduce pain, increase mobility and generally improve quality of life.
Knee pain or sore knees is common, but if it’s affecting your quality of life, we can help.
A safe, effective, minimally invasive treatment for knee osteoarthritis to reduce knee pain and get you moving again.
Durolane (hyaluronic acid) injections can help treat pain in your joints if you have osteoarthritis.
A procedure to remove all or part of a torn meniscus, the cartilage ‘cushion’ in the knee joint between the bones.
Keyhole surgery to explore and treat conditions which affect your knee, hip, ankle, shoulder, elbow or wrist.
If a ganglion cyst is causing pain and discomfort or restricting your movement, it can be treated by aspiration or excision.
Keyhole surgery to remove all or part of a torn meniscus - the cartilage ‘cushion’ in the knee joint between the bones.
Surgery to release a finger that catches or locks in position when it's moved, causing pain and affecting everyday activities.
I trained at St Georges Hospital Medical School, which was followed by six years of Higher Surgical Training on the South East Thames Orthopaedic Rotation. I also completed a one year intensive Senior Fellowship in Adult Hip and Knee Reconstruction at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada between 2009 and 2010.
I'm married with two young children and my free time is spent with family, watching my children play sport, rugby, keeping fit and travelling.
Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr Oliver, discusses what to expect from knee replacement surgery (3 videos).
The various types of knee replacement include the unicompartmental knee replacement and that's used to replace just one compartment of the human knee joint. Usually, the medial or inside compartment. You can also get the lateral unicompartmental knee replacement, but that's used less frequently.
To be able to use those two knee replacements, the disease needs to really be isolated to those two compartments. The second type of knee replacement is the total knee replacement and that's used when two out of the three at least compartments of the knee are worn out. It also gives the surgeon the option to replace the patella as well and that deals with all three compartments of the knee.
Benenden also has the ROSA robotic surgical tool which is used to help the surgeon perform total knee replacement surgery. ROSA stands for robotic orthopaedic surgical assistant and it’s a useful adjunct for the surgeon. It helps the surgeon plan the operation pre-operatively and intraoperatively to provide, hopefully, a more accurate, comfortable total knee replacement.
The time a total knee replacement takes to be carried out depends on the complexity of the problem beforehand. But the average time is usually about an hour.
So total knee replacement surgery is an operation where the patient is sedated and anesthetised with a spinal anaesthetic. The knee is opened up and the worn-out surfaces are removed using instrumentation. This resurfaces the human knee joint with a metal femoral component and a tibial base plate that was just placed at the top of the shin bone or tibia bone in between the two. A plastic insert is fitted which acts as the new cartilage for the knee joint. The knee joint itself is balanced by your own natural ligaments.
