Mr Highcock, Alan James

Mr Alan James Highcock is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, specialising in Hip and Knee Surgery. His clinical interests are focused around arthritis of the hip and knee, and sports injuries, offering surgical options from joint preservation in early arthritis, through to hip and knee replacement and revision (re-do) of previous replacements. He offers Augmented Reality (AR) assisted knee replacement surgery and medial pivot knee replacement surgery in the independent sector. Mr Highcock was born and lives on the Wirral, he undertook his medical and Orthopaedic training in Liverpool. Subsequently he was awarded the First Biennial International Allan Gross Fellowship Award in 2014 and completed his Fellowship training at the world renowned Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada under the tutorship of Dr Allan Gross and Dr David Backstein. There he developed his interest in joint preservation surgery for early osteoarthritis, partial and total knee replacement (including the medial pivot philosophy), hip replacement and revision surgery for re-do hip and knee replacements. In addition to this international renowned fellowship, he trained at the nationally recognised Wrightington Centre for Hip Surgery and as the Cavendish Hip Fellow in Sheffield. Mr Highcock was appointed as an Orthopaedic Consultant at Wirral University Teaching Hospital in 2016, with specific interest in lower limb trauma and Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery. His clinical practice encompasses all aspects of hip and knee surgery, including, partial and total knee replacements, total hip replacement, revision surgery. He is the only surgeon in the Northwest of England to offer Augmented Reality assisted Knee Replacement Surgery. Mr Highcock used a Medial Pivot Knee Replacement, a modern technique he learned in Toronto. He teaches regularly teaches on courses about this Knee Replacement to other Orthopaedic Surgeons nationally, and hosts surgical visitations to pass his techniques on to other knee surgeons. Mr Highcock has an interest in research and improving survivorship in Hip and Knee replacement surgery. He has published multiple scientific papers in journals, authored book chapters and been an invited lecturer throughout Europe and North America. Outside of work Mr Highcock is kept busy by his young family and his passion for motorsport, exercise and sports. He has a particular affinity for baseball after working alongside Dr Allan Gross, team physician, for the Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball (MLB) team whilst in Canada.

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