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Prof. Nicola Maffulli
MD, MD, PhD, FRCS (Orth)
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Prof. Nicola Maffulli
MD, MD, PhD, FRCS (Orth)
Nicola Maffulli is Centre Lead and Professor of Sport & Exercise Medicine and Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mile End Hospital. Originally a free-style Olympic wrestler, his sporting endeavours have included middle distance running, judo and sambo wrestling. His main clinical interests lie in the management of lower limb sports injuries and in paediatric musculoskeletal sports medicine. Special interests include Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Patellar and Achilles tendons. Nicola Maffulli is also Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at Keele University School of Medicine. His main research interests are the histology and biology of overuse tendon injuries and the effects of intensive training in young and older athletes. A florid research programme is under way with international collaborators, focusing on orthopaedic genetics, outcome measures and randomized controlled trials in trauma and orthopaedics, and tissue engineering of tendons.
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