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Professor Damian Griffin OBE TD VR BM BCh MA MPhil FRCS(Tr&Orth) 2022-03-28 Person 5 5 0

As a professional female footballer my hips are integral to my job and more importantly my passion/life having played for the last 17 years. I cannot thanks Professor Damian Griffin (and his team e.g. Physio James) enough for all their support, time, and expertise over the last 4 months. They have listened & understood my individual circumstances and tried to help me play the remainder of the season through a steroid injection & acid in the joint. Whilst this helped for a couple of months their thorough assessment explained I would eventually need surgery. Leading up to the operation, I was quite nervous & apprehensive as I'd never suffered a significant injury or needed surgery during my career. In particular, the feeling of it being out of my control and thoughts of would I be able to return to perform at the same level again. Damian and his team were extremely professional, relaxed, and sincere, thoroughly explaining the procedure to me, my parents & my football club to help us prepare pre, during & post-surgery. I am now 2 weeks post-surgery and recovery is going really well with clear better movement in the hip already. The experience was nowhere near as bad as I imagined, the medication helped deal with any initial pain but taking into account the Marleybone hotel overnight stay & breakfast it's hard not to describe the whole experience as enjoyable. To the point, I am confident & comfortable to have booked in for another surgery with Damiain in 2 days time on my other hip. This time I will approach the day with a lot less nerves knowing I am in the very safe hands of Damian. THANK YOU!