When the United Christian Hospital started in 1973, the Orthopaedic service was provided by General Surgery Department. An Orthopaedic Senior Medical Officer was first appointed in 1977. With the increasing complexity of orthopaedic surgery and a great deal of injuries from the factories in the region, a separate Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology was established in the early 1980’s. With the forever-increasing workload, the Department has multiplied and diversified from her initial humble beginning to the present state, providing different orthopaedic services and operations.
 
Our department is the training centre for both General Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation under the Hong Kong College of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Our department is also the teaching centre for medical and nursing students from different local institutes.
 
Currently our department has 6 full time Consultants, 5 full time Associate Consultants, 1 Resident Specialist and 18 Residents.

Spine Team

Providing consultation in 4 sessions of spine clinic per week and in-patient emergency consultation for managing spine problems. Performing more than 180 spine surgeries annually, including conventional open spinal operations and minimally invasive & endoscopic spinal operations.

---

Hand Team

Providing different operations to hand, wrist, and elbows, including arthroscopic wrist and elbow surgeries, surgeries for compressive neuropathy, tendon transfer surgeries, flap surgery for soft tissue defect. Hand team also provides emergency replantation surgery, fracture fixation for complicated hand and wrist trauma.

---

Sports Medicine Team

Providing operations for multiple kinds of sport-related injuries, such as shoulder rotator cuff repair, knee ligament reconstruction, knee meniscal surgeries. Sports Medicine team also performs Shoulder Arthroplasty for patients with massive rotator cuff tear or comminuted proximal humerus fracture.

---

Joint Reconstruction Team

Performing around 200 cases of total knee and total hip replacement per year. Also offering expertise on complicated cases such as revision surgeries and treating peri-prosthetic infection and fracture. New technology such as Computer Navigation or Robotic Arm are sometimes utilised during the joint replacement surgeries.

---

Paediatric Orthopaedics Team

Apart from providing emergency care to fracture and injuries in paediatric patient, the team also operate for deformity correction, growth disorders, neuromuscular diseases.

---

Subspecialty Nurses

4 Subspecialty Nurse Clinics – Foot & Ankle, Fragility Fracture, Spine and Arthroplasty Nurse Clinics are run by experienced Advanced Practice Nurses, who provide counselling to patient for pre-operation preparation and post-operative care.