Sporty Grandad Back Playing Football with Grandkids After Getting 3D Printed Knee Replacement Made in America

Source: thisislancashire.co.uk Date: Friday 7, August 2015

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A KEEN sportsman crippled by knee problems is back in the ﬁeld again – with a Most read stories little help from some space age technology.  Load more stories Mike Dunn thought his sporting days were over when, after 25 years of problems and four operations, his arthritic right knee was too painful to play on.

Worse still, the 57-year-old Bolton Wanderers fan and former Old Farnworthians player could no longer enjoy a garden kickabout with his four Your local area  football-mad grandsons.

But thanks to a new knee that was designed on a 3D printer and created in America, Mr Dunn is back in action with nothing more to show for his ordeal than an eight inch scar.

The father-of-two, who grew up in Little Hulton, said: “I was hobbling around in continual pain, it was aﬀecting my life and everything I did.

“But since the operation I have been over the moon. The joint pain is completely gone — it is like having a new leg.”

Mr Dunn, a senior project engineer for Horwich-based Chloride Technical and Trading, is a well-known player in the Bury and Bolton table tennis leagues and a social golfer.

He is also a former Bolton League cricketer and holds the Bolton Association record for the most catches made by a wicket keeper in one match — seven.

Mr Dunn, who now lives in Walmer Bridge, near Preston, Promoted is delighted he can get back to playing sport and go for long walks with wife Christine — but is happiest in the stories garden with grandchildren Josh, aged 12, nine-year-old Lewis and seven-year-olds Dan and Christopher.

He added: “My left leg has always been ‘just for standing on’ — but now I know I can kick without pain in my right knee I am going to show them how to

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“I can’t believe it. The eﬀect on my life has been amazing.”

It was Gordon Shepard, an orthopaedic consultant at the BMI Beaumont Hospital in Chorley New Road, Bolton, who suggested Mr Dunn undergo his half knee replacement.

A CT scan produced a 3D image of Mr Dunn’s knee and this was emailed to American company ConforMIS, who produced an exact model on a 3D printer using computer assisted design.

The implant was then created and sent back to the UK for Mr Dunn to go under the knife at the Beaumont on October 6. He was discharged two days later.

Mr Shepard said: “I know it sounds a bit like something from Star Trek — but this is the very latest in knee replacements.

“In traditional knee replacement surgery the surgeon selects an ‘off the shelf’ implant from a range of standard sizes and then has to make the necessary adjustments to fit the implant to the patient – invariably compromising somewhat on the overall fit.

“With this replacement we are providing patient-speciﬁc implants designed to ﬁt one knee and one knee only.”

Mr Shepard, who carries out 250 joint replacements a year, said he has ﬁtted eight implants designed using 3D printing technology in the 12 months the procedure has been available at The Beaumont.

He added: “The procedure is not very common at the Share article moment — although it has been going for about seven years in the US because it is expensive and not readily    available on the NHS.  “But the use of 3D printers is becoming more common and within a couple of years we should be able to 3D print the metal implants in the UK.”

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Sporty grandad back playing football with grandkids after getting 3D printed knee replacement made in America

EmShambles says... 5:59pm Fri 7 Aug 15 Isn't modern medicine and science amazing!? It actually looks like something they'd sell at Ann Summers.

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