Your Tutor on this KNEEguru course is the very experienced and internationally-known arthroscopic knee surgeon Mr (Dr) Angus Strover, FRCS.

Dr Strover currently consults at London Sports Orthopaedics at London Bridge Hospital, London, and was a founder of the Droitwich Knee Clinic (in Worcestershire, UK). He is President of the educational charity, The Knee Foundation, which runs both a fellowship training programme and a busy schedule of educational courses for clinicians (doctors, physiotherapists and nurses).

Arthroscopy - Part 1 - The importance of method

• Informed consent
• Procedures just before the anaesthesia
• Use of a tourniquet

Arthroscopy - Part 2 - Instrumentation

• Arthroscopy setup
• The arthroscope
• The blunt probe
• Expanding the knee cavity

Arthroscopy - Part 3 - Anatomy

• Menisci
• Cruciate ligaments
• Collateral ligaments
• Patella
• Fat pad
• Synovium
• Synovial plicae

Arthroscopy - Part 4 - That critical first portal

• Marking the portals
• Identifying the notch

Arthroscopy - Part 5 - Progressing to two hands

Arthroscopy - Part 6 - A system of examination from the standard portals

Arthroscopy - Part 7 - Plicae

Arthroscopy - Part 8 - The value of the suprapatellar portal

• Medial plicae
• Suprapatellar plicae
• Complete septum and fenestrated plica
• Bowstringing plica

Arthroscopy - Part 9 - Commonly missed problems

• Inadequate visualisation
• Missed chondral flap
• Missed osteochondritis dissecans
• Missed loose body
• Missed anterior cruciate ligament tear or avulsion
• Missed meniscal tear
• Missed pathological plica