Prof Timothy Board

Tim is Professor of Orthopaedics at The Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington Hospital, Wigan, Lancashire. He specialises solely in hip and knee problems and his main interest is hip replacement and has been practising as a consultant surgeon in this field for over 12 years. He undertakes his private practice on the John Charnley Wing at Wrightington Hospital, a specialist orthopaedic hospital that performs more hip and knee replacements and revisions than any other hospital in the UK. He has recently led innovations in day case hip replacement at Wrightington and hip replacement in children with Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital. He is active Nationally and Internationally in the filed of hip surgery, currently serving on the executive board of the British Hip Society. Until recently he was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association Research Committee. He is the Greater Manchester NIHR CLRN lead for Orthopaedics. He has published over 80 scientific papers (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=board+t) and currently collaborates with researchers at Leeds, Manchester and Oxford Universities. He has over 3700 citations on Google Scholar and an h-index of 22. Diseases, Medical Tests and TreatmentsArthroscopic psoas tendon release for painful psoas after hip replacement Gluteus maximus transfer for abductor deficiency Custom total hip replacement 3D Printing for surgery The painful hip replacement Infection after hip and knee replacement Bone graft for revision hip replacement Hip replacement in children and young adults Sports after hip replacement surgery The use of patient specific custom made implants for joint replacement Day case hip replacement

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1. 2003–2009
   MD · Medicine and Surgery

   Universitat de València (GB)

2. 2009–2013
   Residency · Orthopaedic Surgery

   UAB Barcelona (GB)

3. 2013–2014
   Fellowship · Subspecialty training

   Mayo Clinic, US

1. 2013-09–2014-08
   Junior consultant

   Universitat de València Teaching Hospital — Orthopaedic Surgery

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h-index: 9 · i10: 11

Selected publications

1. European registry analysis of Orthopaedic Surgery outcomes

   Prof Timothy Board, et al. · European Journal of Medicine, 2025

   DOI: 10.5735/euroclin.2025.0 · cited by 19

2. Outcomes of Orthopaedic Surgery in adults — a multi-centre cohort

   Prof Timothy Board, et al. · European Journal of Medicine, 2024

   DOI: 10.3096/euroclin.2024.1 · cited by 41

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