For Healthcare Professionals
Working Together to Deliver Specialist Limb Care
The Leeds Limb Centre is a specialist multidisciplinary practice providing assessment and treatment for complex disorders of the upper and lower limb.
We work collaboratively with healthcare professionals across primary care, secondary care and independent practice, providing timely specialist opinion, advanced reconstructive surgery and coordinated multidisciplinary rehabilitation.
Our aim is simple: to complement—not replace—the excellent care already being provided by our referring colleagues.
Who Can Refer?
We welcome referrals from:
- General Practitioners
- Consultant Surgeons
- Rehabilitation Medicine Physicians
- Pain Medicine Specialists
- Physiotherapists
- Prosthetists and Orthotists
- Occupational Therapists
- Community Rehabilitation Teams
- Case Managers
- Solicitors acting in personal injury or clinical negligence cases
- Private Medical Insurers
Patients may be referred for consultation, multidisciplinary assessment, second opinion or specialist surgical treatment.
Our Specialisms
Providing tailored procedures for patients with complex limb conditions, from assessment through to recovery and rehabilitation.
Amputation
& Amputee Care
Multidisciplinary Assessment
Many patients benefit from assessment by more than one specialist.
Where appropriate, patients may be reviewed jointly by members of our multidisciplinary team, allowing coordinated decision-making and a single integrated management plan.
Depending on the clinical problem, this may include:
- Plastic and reconstructive surgeons
- Orthopaedic surgeons
- Prosthetists
- Physiotherapists
- Occupational therapists
- Pain specialists
- Rehabilitation physicians
This approach is particularly valuable for patients with complex amputation problems, difficult limb reconstruction and persistent functional impairment.
When Should You Consider Referral?
We are happy to review patients at any stage of their treatment, but particularly welcome referral where there is:
Following Amputation
- Persistent residual limb pain
- Phantom limb pain
- Suspected neuroma
- Poor prosthetic tolerance
- Recurrent skin breakdown
- Prominent bone
- Difficult stump contour
- Soft tissue deficiency
- Consideration of TMR
- Assessment for osseointegration
Peripheral Nerve Conditions
- Persistent neuropathic pain
- Motor deficit
- Delayed recovery following nerve injury
- Symptomatic neuroma
- Failed previous nerve surgery
- Complex compression neuropathy
Limb Reconstruction
- Established non-union
- Complex soft tissue defects
- Failed reconstruction
- Chronic infection
- Functional deficits after trauma
We are equally happy to provide a second opinion where management is uncertain or where highly specialised reconstructive options are being considered.
Working With Rehabilitation Teams
Successful reconstruction depends upon high-quality rehabilitation.
We actively encourage referral from prosthetists, physiotherapists and rehabilitation clinicians, and are committed to maintaining close communication throughout treatment.
Patients already under the care of local rehabilitation services will continue to work with their established team wherever possible.
For patients without existing rehabilitation support, we can coordinate care with our preferred rehabilitation partners.
Communication
We understand the importance of timely clinical communication.
Following assessment, referring clinicians will receive:
- A detailed clinic letter
- Investigation results where appropriate
- Our diagnosis
- Recommended treatment plan
- Details of any planned surgery
- Ongoing follow-up arrangements
We believe collaborative care leads to better outcomes and welcome discussion regarding complex cases before or after referral.
Medicolegal Referrals
Our consultants have extensive experience acting as independent medical experts in personal injury and clinical negligence cases.
We are pleased to assess patients requiring:
- Independent clinical opinion
- Surgical treatment following litigation
- Joint management with case managers
- Rehabilitation planning
- Treatment under letters of instruction or insurer funding
Clinical treatment and independent medicolegal reporting are managed separately to preserve appropriate professional standards.
Education & Collaboration
The Leeds Limb Centre is committed to advancing specialist limb care through education, research and collaboration.
Our consultants contribute to:
- National specialist services
- Surgical education
- Clinical research
- Development of evidence-based practice
- Multidisciplinary teaching
We are always pleased to discuss complex cases with colleagues and explore collaborative approaches to patient care.
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