Profile

• 2000: Intercalated BSc in Neuroscience, Imperial College, London
• 2003: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS - medical degree), Imperial College, London
• 2008: Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCS)
• 2012: Masters in Orthopaedic Engineering (MSc), Cardiff University
  
• 2016: Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeon of England (Tr&Orth)
• 2017: Certification of Completion of Training in Trauma and Orthopaedics (CCT), Yorkshire Deanery, United Kingdom
  

  

Analysis of flow rate through local infiltration analgesia pumps as used postoperatively following hip and knee arthroplasties

 

• Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon
  Specialising in Knees, Arthroplasty and Sports Injuries,
  Euroclinic Hospital, Athens
• Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon
  Specialising in Knees, Arthroplasty and Sports Injuries,
  Athens Medical Centre, Athens
• Dr Theodorides has accumulated a wealth of experience from the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom, where he worked for 17 years and has a certified logbook of more than 6000 operations
  
  

Substantive Specialist Fellowship Training Following completion of training

• Aug 2019 – Feb 2020:  Senior Knee Fellowship, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry (Mr Tim Spalding)
• Jan 2019 – Aug 2019: Senior Knee Fellowship, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, (Mr Jonathan Eldridge, Mr Andrew Porteous)
• July 2018 – Dec 2018: Senior Knee Fellowship, University Hospitals Southampton (Mr Chapman-Sheath, Mr Tice)
• Jan 2018 – Jun 2018: Senior Knee Fellowship, Fortius Clinic, London (Mr Sam Church, Mr Jonathon Lavelle)
• Mar 2017 – Dec 2017: Senior Knee Fellowship, Chapel Allerton Hospital (Mr Owen Wall)
   

Visiting Fellowships

• July 2019: Gelenkpunkt Clinic, Innsbruck, Austria (Professor Christian Fink, Dr Christian Hoser)
• Nov 2018: Travelling UK fellowship to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire (Mr Tim Spalding) - Basingstoke Hospital, Mr Mike Risebury (Mr Yasen)
• Dec 2017: International Knee and Joint Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Dr Charlie Brown, Mr James Robinson)
• Oct 2017: Travelling UK Fellowship to Fortius Clinic (Mr Andy Williams) - University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire (Mr Tim Spalding)
• Jan 2017: International Knee and Joint Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Dr Charlie Brown, Mr James Robinson)
  

Trauma & Orthopaedic Training

• Oct 2016 – Mar 2017: ST8 Trauma and Orthopaedics, York District Hospital, Soft tissue knee and arthroplasty
• Apr 2016 – Oct 2016: ST8 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Leeds General Infirmary, Soft tissue knee
• Oct 2015 – Apr 2016: ST7 Trauma and Orthopaedics, York District Hospital, Hip and knee arthroplasty
• Apr 2015 – Oct 2015: ST7 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Soft tissue knee
• Oct 2014 – Apr 2015: ST6 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Foot and ankle
• Mar 2014 – Oct 2014: ST6 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hip and knee arthroplasty
• Aug 2013 – Mar 2014: ST5 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hull Royal Infirmary, Soft tissue knee and arthroplasty
• Feb 2013 – Aug 2013: ST5 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, Upper limb
• Aug 2012 – Feb 2013: ST4 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust, Knee Arthroplasty
• Feb 2012 – Aug 2012: ST4 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Midyorkshire NHS Hospitals, Wakefield, Shoulder arthroscopy and arthroplasty
• Aug 2011 – Feb 2012: ST3 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Midyorkshire NHS Hospitals, Wakefield, Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
• Feb 2011 – Aug 2011: ST3 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, Hip and Knee arthroplasty
• Aug 2010 - Feb 2011: ST3 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, Foot and Ankle
• Feb 2010 – Aug 2010: LAT ST3 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Great Western Hospital, Swindon, Hip arthroplasty
• Aug 2009 – Feb 2010: LAT ST3 Trauma and Orthopaedics, Weston General Hospital, Weston Super Mare, Lower limb arthroplasty
• Feb 2009 – Aug 2009: Trauma and Orthopaedics SHO, Aintree, Hospital, Liverpool, Foot and ankle
• Aug 2008 – Feb 2009: Trauma and Orthopaedics SHO, Macclesfield Hospital, Cheshire, Upper limb
• Feb 2007 – Aug 2008: Trauma and Orthopaedics SHO, Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, Knee and Hip arthroplasty
• Aug 2007 – Feb 2008: Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedics SHO, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool
• Aug 2006 – Aug 2007: Trauma & Orthopaedics, Cardiothoracics, ENT, SHO, North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent, Professor P Thomas
• Feb 2006 – Aug 2006: Trauma and Orthopaedics SHO, Hillingdon Hospital, London
• Aug 2005 – Feb 2006: Accident and Emergency Middle Grade, St Mary’s Hospital, Leicester Royal Infirmary
• Feb 2005 – Aug 2005: Anatomy Demonstrator, Guy’s Hospital, London, Professor Harold Ellis
• Aug 2004 – Feb 2005: Accident and Emergency SHO, St Thomas Hospital, London
• Aug 2003 – Aug 2004: PRHO General Surgery, General Medicine and A&E, Ealing Hospital, London

Areas of Expertise

• Sports injuries especially around the knee with experience treating elite athletes and footballers from the top clubs of the English Premier League
• Patella instability and pain at the front of the knee
• All types of knee arthroplasty with years of experience at tertiary referral centres in the United Kingdom
• Years of trauma experience at specialist trauma centres in England (Major Trauma Centres)
  

Sports Injuries

• Subspecialisation in sports knee injuries
• Lower limb injury prevention programme
• ACL injury prevention programme
• Programmes preventing onset of anterior knee pain, tendinopathies and patella instability
  

Ligament Surgery

• ACL reconstruction (adult and paediatric)
• Lateral extraarticular tenodesis
• Revision ACL reconstruction
• MCL, PCL, and PLC repair and reconstructions
• Multiligament knee injuries
• Patella and quadriceps tendinopathies
  

Meniscal Surgery

• Meniscal repair (all inside, inside out, outside in)
• Meniscectomy
• Meniscal transplantation
  

Cartilage Procedures

• Chondroplasty
• Microfracture
• Osteochondral Autograft/Allograft Transplantation Surgery (OATS)
• Mosaicplasty
• ACI/MACI
  

Patellofemoral Pathology

• Anterior knee pain
• Patellofemoral Instability (dislocating/subluxing patella)
• Patella and quadriceps tendinopathy
• MPFL reconstruction
• Tibial tubercle osteotomy
• Medial reefing
• Iliotibial band lengthening
• Trochleoplasty
  

Realignment Osteotomies

• High tibial osteotomy
• Distal femur osteotomy
• Tibial slope corrective osteotomy
  

Arthroplasty

• Total knee Replacements
• Unicompartmental Knee Replacements
• Patellofemoral Knee Replacements
• Revision total knee replacements

Biologics

• Hyaluronic Acid
• Platelet Rich Plasma
• Stem cells

• 2012: Masters Orthopaedic Engineering: Distinction for Thesis
  Analysis of flow through local infiltration analgesia pumps
• 2009: First prize in Mersey Deanery for research and presentation, Wrist MRI arthrogram vs arthroscopy presentation
• 2002: Matthews Wrightson International Scholarship
• Elective attachment at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

 

 

1) Symptomatic meniscal deficient patients with ACL instability: Results of primary and revision ACL reconstruction with meniscal transplant.
Spalding T, Asplin L, Theodorides AA, Damasena I, Shivji F, Metcalfe A, Thompson P.
The Knee, 2020; 27: S3-4.

2) Diagnosis and Management of Chondral Delamination injuries of the Knee.
Theodorides AA, Williams A, Guthrie H, Church S.
The Knee, 2019; 26(3): 647-652.

3) Two stage Revision Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Our Experience Using Allograft Bone Dowels.
Theodorides AA, Wall O.
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2019; 27(2):1-9.

4) Can the radiopaque marker in surgical swabs scratch orthopaedic implant surfaces?
Theodorides AA, Stewart TD, Venkatesh R.
European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, 2019; 29(2): 383-388.

5) Intraoperative mobilisation of the joint specific synovial mesenchymal stem cells.
Baboolal TG, Khalil-Khan A, Theodorides AA, Wall O, Jones E, McGonagle D.
American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018; 46(14): 3532-3540.

6) The role of elastomeric pumps in postoperative analgesia and factors affecting flow rate.
Theodorides AA.
Journal Perioperative Practice, 2017; 27(12): 276-282.

7) Analysis of flow rate through elastomeric local infiltration analgesia pumps.
Theodorides AA.
EC Orthopaedics, 2017; 6(1): 3-14.

8) Factors affecting short and long-term outcomes of manipulation under anaesthesia in patients with adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder.
Theodorides AA, Owen JM, Sayers AE, Woods DA.
Shoulder and Elbow, 2014; 6(4): 245-256.

9) Brachial plexus injury following the use of LARS suture passer during an open Weaver-Dunn procedure.
Theodorides AA, Watkins CEL, Venkateswaran B.
Journal of Shoulder Elbow Surgery, 2013; 22(5): e1-5.

10) Is there a learning curve in foot and ankle surgery.
Walton R, Theodorides AA, Melling D, Molloy A.
Foot and Ankle Surgery, 2012; 18(1): 62-65.

11) Failure of the Cannulok revision hip prosthesis.
Hashim Z, Theodorides AA, Rawes M.
Injury Extra, 2012; 43(10): 117-118.

12) Treatment of post-operative infections following proximal femoral fractures: our institutional experience.
Theodorides AA, Pollard TCB, Fishlock A, Mataliotakis GI, Kelley T, Thakar C, Willett KM, Giannoudis PV.
Injury 2011; 42(S5): S28-34.

13) Wound problems following hip arthroplasty before and after the introduction of a direct thrombin inhibitor for thromboprophylaxis.
Gill SK, Theodorides AA, Smith N, Maguire E, Whitehouse SL, Rigby MA, Ivory JP.
Hip International, 2011; 21(6): 678-683.

14) Haemodynamic instability from a low energy pubic ramus fracture in a 78-year-old woman. A case report and review of the literature.
Theodorides AA, Morgan BW, Simmons D.
Injury 2011; 42(7): 722-724.

15) MRI appearances of the femur following bone graft harvesting using the reamer-irrigator-aspirator system.
Tan HB, Theodorides AA, Rankine JJ, Kanakaris NK, Giannoudis PV.
Injury, 2011; 42(S3):S21.

16) Return to sports, sexual function and quality of life following traumatic pelvic fracture.
Harvey-Kelly KF, Obakponovwe O, Theodorides AA, Kanakaris NK, Giannoudis PV.
Injury 2011; 42(S3):S23-24.

17) Intra-articular dislocation of the patella: A case report and review of the literature.
Theodorides AA, Guo S, Case R.
Injury Extra, 2010; 41: 103-105.

18) The surgical management of symptomatic chronic pilonidal sinus.
Theodorides AA, Koralage D, Ijaz S, Chopada A.
Colorectal Disease, 2004; 6(S2): 48.

19) A novel technique of small umbilical hernia repair in children.
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2004; 86 (4): 305-6.

20) The evolution of radiofrequency ablation (VNUS CLOSURE) as a minimally invasive treatment option for varicose veins.
Phlebology, 2004; 45: 285-288.

 

• General Medical Council, UK
• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• British Orthopaedic Association of the Knee
• Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Imperial College Alumni
• Hellenic Association of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery & Sports Traumatology

   

• Sports injury prevention in the lower limbs
• Difficult meniscal tears and ways to save the meniscus with complex suture repair techniques
• Meniscal transplantation surgery
• Multiligament knee injuries
• Articular cartilage regeneration and transplantation
• Patella instability
• Tendinopathies around the knee
• Knee realignment osteotomies
• Improvement in clinical outcomes following knee arthroplasty
• Ways to expedite recovery following knee arthroplasty
• Ways to improve longevity of knee arthroplasty