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Professor Damian Griffin OBE TD VR BM BCh MA MPhil FRCS(Tr&Orth) 2022-12-01 Person 5 5 0

I am an active person living in North Wales and enjoy a mixture of trad climbing, bouldering and fell running. I started having noticeable hip pain in 2020 and believed it was due to over-use. After 6 months rest over the winter, and I started my 2021 training cautiously with judicious amounts of physio, mobility drills and strength exercises and was able to enjoy most of summer. Come August I was having severe pain and after talking to an osteopath was advised to ask the GP for an x-ray referral. The initial diagnosis was a cam impingement, which I then had confirmed via an MRI scan. I was able to continue climbing through most of winter but come spring '22 I was in pain on a daily basis. I was reluctant to book the surgery at first as I wasn't sure if it would be effective and I didn't want to miss the climbing season. Retrospectively I am glad I did. With help from Damian and his team I am now climbing better than I have ever been. Damian has a thorough approach that involves a pre-operative arthrogram under sedation in able to get as accurate imaging as possible. If you are thinking about getting surgery but are on the fence I would encourage you to go for it - to be at the point where you are thinking about it then it must already be having a significant impact on your quality of life. Prof Griffin is one of the words experts and it's unlikely you will find someone better for the job.