Mr G Patrick Ashcroft

Speciality:
Chris offers a wide range of Orthopaedic services with an emphasis on timely, high quality care. His practice has a clear focus on lower limb surgery, offering expertise in both primary and revision hip and knee replacements. Chris offers MAKO robotic surgery for total hip replacement as well as total and partial knee replacement. The muscle sparing direct anterior approach for total hip replacement is also an option for appropriate patients both robotically and manually. Other wide ranging conditions causing hip or knee pain are also managed by Chris using both operative and non-operative treatments.
As well as this, he has experience in hand and foot surgery and will happily assess these conditions and offer treatments for base of thumb arthritis, overuse syndromes or tendinopathies as well as routinely managing bunions and forefoot arthritis.

Chris has an active involvement in both Grampian’s orthopaedic trauma service and the North of Scotland Major Trauma Centre. He regularly manages the full range of general orthopaedic trauma as well as more complex lower limb trauma. He has experience in dealing with non-union of fractures, post –traumatic arthritis and fractures around both hip and knee replacements.