Mr Sandeep Datir is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at HMT St Hugh’s Hospital in Grimsby, specialising in hip and knee surgery. He has been a consultant since 2010 and completed a hip and knee arthroplasty fellowship at Wrightington Hospital, an internationally recognised centre for joint replacement. His particular interests are revision and complex hip surgery, and keyhole surgery of both the hip and the knee. He also works for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Hip problems divide into two quite different groups. There is the worn hip that needs replacing, and there is the hip that hurts in a younger, active person whose X-ray looks more or less normal. The second group is frequently told there is nothing wrong, when in fact the problem is the shape of the joint or a tear in the cartilage rim, both of which can often be treated by keyhole surgery. Mr Datir treats both groups, which is less common than it sounds.

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About Mr Datir

Mr Datir qualified in medicine at Nagpur University in India and completed a postgraduate degree in orthopaedics, gaining his MS. He was appointed as a Clinical Lecturer at a teaching hospital for two years before coming to the UK.

He completed his specialist training in orthopaedics in the Yorkshire region, where he has worked for the majority of his career in England, and then trained for a year at Wrightington Hospital as a hip and knee joint replacement fellow. Wrightington is a highly specialised tertiary referral centre for joint replacement and minimally invasive keyhole surgery. He was appointed as a consultant in 2010.

His practice covers primary and complex hip and knee joint replacement, unicompartmental or partial knee replacement, and arthroscopic keyhole surgery of both the knee and the hip. He has a particular interest in revision and complex hip surgery, treating patients whose previous joint replacement needs redoing.

He is trained in minimally invasive Superpath hip replacement, an approach that works between the muscles rather than cutting through them, and he performs computer-navigated knee replacement.

Alongside his clinical work, he has a substantial research interest. He is principal investigator on a randomised controlled trial comparing mechanically and kinematically aligned navigated knee replacement, has published in the international orthopaedic literature including studies on long-term implant survivorship, and has contributed a chapter on trochanteric osteotomy to Master Techniques in Total Hip Arthroplasty.

He is married with two sons, and plays badminton and swims.

Areas of expertise

Hip: arthritis and replacement

• Hip arthritis and osteoarthritis of the hip
• Total hip replacement
• Minimally invasive Superpath hip replacement
• Revision and complex hip replacement
• Hip pain assessment

Hip: keyhole surgery in the younger adult

• Hip impingement (femoroacetabular impingement)
• Labral tears of the hip
• Groin pain in athletes and active adults
• Hip arthroscopy
• Sports injuries of the hip

Knee: arthritis and replacement

• Knee arthritis and osteoarthritis of the knee
• Total knee replacement
• Unicompartmental (partial) knee replacement
• Computer-navigated knee replacement
• Complex and revision knee replacement
• Knee pain assessment

Knee: keyhole surgery

• Knee arthroscopy
• Meniscal (cartilage) tears
• Loose bodies
• Cartilage damage

Sports injuries

• Sports injuries of the hip and knee
• Return to activity assessment

Trauma and general orthopaedics

• Fracture assessment and trauma surgery
• General orthopaedic assessment and diagnosis
• Joint injections, including ultrasound-guided injections

Mr Datir treats adults aged 18 and over.