Lateral Ankle Instability (eBook)

James Calder TD MD PhD FRCS completed higher surgical training in London before completing a Fellowship in Brisbane, Australia with Dr Terry Saxby. He was appointed consultant at Hampshire Hospitals and then Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London. He is Professor in the Dept of Bioengineering, Imperial College London specialising in sports injury research. He has gained a reputation for his clinical interest in the management of foot and ankle injuries in the elite athlete. He looks after many of the professional football teams across Europe and national olympic, rugby, and cricket teams as well as the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden and Birmingham Royal Ballet. He is past chairman of ESSKA-AFAS and the Achilles Tendon Study Group, sub-editor of Bone & Joint Journal  and previously Associate Editor KSSTA. He co-founded the Fortius Clinic London

Prof. Dr. C. Niek van Dijk, MD, PhD is a leading authority for surgery of the ankle. He is currently working in the FIFA Medical Centers of Excellence in Madrid, Clinic Ripol&DePrado&VanDijk and in Porto, Clinica de Dragão. Between 2002-2016 he was head of the Orthopaedic Department of the AMC Hospital (Amsterdam UMC). He is emeritus professor in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Amsterdam. In 2000 N^ 4000 members from more than 115 countries. Niek van Dijk  was president of the Dutch Orthopedic Association, president of the Nordic Orthopedic Association and president of ESSKA and ESSKA-AFAS. He is honorary member of several Societies and Associations. He is the tutor of 50 PhD students who he guided to a successful defense of their PhD-thesis. Niek van Dijk published over 350 scientific indexed publications, wrote over 100 book chapters and is editor of several books. He is founding editor of JISAKOS, the journal of ISAKOS.

Jon Karlsson, MD, PhD is a Professor of Orthopaedics and Sports Traumatology at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden. Originally from Iceland, he has worked at Sahlgrenska University Hospital since 1981. His clinical focus is knee sugery, expecially complex knee injuries, knee dislocations and revision surgery. He works as Foot & Ankle surgeon as well. His PhD-thesis in 1989 was devoted to 'Chronic Lateral Ankle Instability', and since then he has been the author of more than 500 peer-reviewed publications, more than 100 book chapters and over 40 textbooks in orthopaedics and sports traumatology. He has mentored 60 PhD-students and is currently (since 12 years) the chief Editor of KSSTA (Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy). He has been the care-taking physician of a profssional football club (IFK Göteborg) since 1984.