Busy start to 2016

2016 started as 2015 finished with Bill being involved in a heavy lecturing schedule. In January, he was part of the International Faculty for the annual Foot and Ankle meeting in Basel, Switzerland. In February, he was the invited overseas guest lecturer for the Swedish National Meeting in Uppsala talking on ligament injuries. Bill addressed the Podiatric Meeting in Coventry in March on the influence of Genetics on common tendon problems.

Publications

For colleagues and patients interested in following Bill’s recent peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, the following are his most recent:

  1. Ribbans WJ, Ribbans HA, Cruickshank J, Wood EV. The Management of Posterior Ankle Impingement in Sport: A review. Foot and Ankle Surgery 21:1-10. 2015.
  2. Mackay GM, Blyth MJG, Anthony I, Hopper GP, Ribbans WJ. A Review of Ligament Augmentation with the InternalBraceTM The Surgical Principle Is Described for the Lateral Ankle Ligament and ACL Repair in Particular, and a Comprehensive Review of Other Surgical Applications and Techniques Is Presented. Surgical Technology International. 26:239-255. 2015.
  3. Rickaby R, El Khoury L, Ribbans WJ, Raleigh SM. Variation within three apoptosis associated genes as potential risk factors for Achilles tendinopathy in a British based case-control cohort. 2015 Oct 25;571(2):167-71. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.06.010. Epub 2015 Jun 6.
  4. SM Heffernan, LP Kilduff, RM Erskine, SH Day, JS McPhee, GE McMahon, GK Stebbings, JPH Neale, SJ Lockey, WJ Ribbans, CJ Cook, B Vance, SM Raleigh, C Roberts, MA Bennett, G Wang, M Collins, YP Pitsiladis, AG Williams. An association of ACTN3 R577X but not ACE I/D gene variants with elite rugby union player status and playing position. Physiological Genomics Published 12th January 2016. no. DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00107.2015.

Ribbans WJ. Medico-legal Issues in the Foot and Ankle Specialty. BJJ360 2016;5(1):37-40. DOI: 10.1302/2048-0105.45.360404 Published 9 February 2016.