Rahul Bhattacharyya

Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon; Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer; Glasgow and London; sports knee injuries; research and education

[Rahul Bhattacharyya @Rahulknee]

Discussing ACL surgery at the Great North Debate at Leeds! #Sports Knee Surgery #ACL

[Rahul Bhattacharyya @Rahulknee]

Honour to be invited as faculty in the ESSKA ACL course in Barcelona this week! Awesome event!

[BASK @BASK_knee]

BASK response to The Times (2 May 2025):
To suggest orthopaedic surgery is for men due to “sheer physicality” is outdated and misogynistic.
Modern orthopaedics values precision, empathy, research, and skill—not gender.
We stand for inclusivity and progress.
👇Read our full letter

[Rahul Bhattacharyya @Rahulknee]

Bask 2025 kicks off! Looking forward to the next 2 days!

[Clockwork Medical @clockworkmed]

It’s a sunny start to the first day of BASK 2025 here in Harrogate! We look forward to welcoming our delegates! Stay tuned for updates from #BASK2025! @baskonline #orthopaedics #kneesurgery #harrogate #medicaleducation

[Alasdair Santini @AlasdairSantini]

Looking forward to the meeting #BASK2025

[Kash Akhtar @kashakhtar]

🚨 Applications are open for #TopGun2 — the UK’s elite surgical training course in sports knee surgery.

Only 16 senior trainees will be selected.

🚀 Hosted at @ArthrexUK Innovation Point with @baskonline.

TPDs: nominate your best.
Trainees: talk to your TPD.

#SportsKnee

[Alasdair Santini @AlasdairSantini]

Looking forward to hosting next weeks BASK conference. Thanks in advance to all the speakers for what will be an excellent meeting. #BASK2025

[REPPORT @RepportTrial]

Goodbye February, Hello March! 🌿

February was our best month yet - a record 19 (‼️) randomisations, 1 more site, and plenty of momentum on the study 👏

A huge thanks to our amazing REPPORT sites for making it happen❤️✨

@AndyMetOrtho @TobyOSmith @WarwickCTU

[Alasdair Santini @AlasdairSantini]

Looking forward to the British Patellofemoral Joint Society meeting in London. Will be speaking on collaboration with BASK #BPFSoc

[BASK @BASK_knee]

Join us on 15th January 2025 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London!

This one-day event, hosted by Imperial College London, features expert-led sessions on ACL, multiligament, meniscal, and cartilage injuries.

🎟️ Book now: https://t.co/wMKcHN2W7R

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[Clockwork Medical @clockworkmed]

Highlights from @baskonline Revision Knee Instructional Course 2024! Jonathan Stevenson led an insightful session on Managing Complications alongside experts Andrew Toms, Andrew Porteous, and Jonathan Miles. Fantastic insights and strategies were shared! #BaskRevisionKnee2024

[NHS Lanarkshire @NHSLanarkshire]

A dad is hoping to be saved from years of knee pain after taking part in an international transplant trial

Andrew Pollock has become the first patient in Lanarkshire to receive a replacement meniscus

Full story https://t.co/fizF8H7mnC

[BASK @BASK_knee]

Excited to attend the BASK Revision Knee Instructional Course 2024 in Birmingham!
📅 14th-15th October 2024
A great opportunity to learn and discuss key topics like Periprosthetic Fractures and Bone Loss Management. 🦵
Register here: https://t.co/XPqH6g5HU4

[BASK @BASK_knee]

BASK at BOA 2024!

[Rahul Bhattacharyya @Rahulknee]

Meniscal Allograft Transplant performed @ NHS Lanarkshire University Hospitals today! Thank you to the whole team without which it’s not possible.

We are currently recruiting to the METEOR 2 trial! @AndyMetOrtho. Please refer patients with post meniscectomy pain.

[Andy Metcalfe @AndyMetOrtho]

Great work to the team in Glasgow. 👏👏

If you’re in Scotland seeing people with post-meniscectomy pain, you now have 2 solid options - Lanarkshire or QEUH both recruiting to #METEOR2

[Andy Metcalfe @AndyMetOrtho]

Coventry knee team at Biological Knee Society - Nick Smith here telling us the way forward in meniscal allograft. Great talk.

Want RCT data? It’s up to us to get #METEOR2trial delivered…..

[Rahul Bhattacharyya @Rahulknee]

Awesome meeting at Warwick Sports Knee! Excellent faculty! Well done to the organising team.