article_snippet: ‘Rhidian Morgan-Jones, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at both hospitals have treated around 25 patients in a prospective trial to show it is safe. '
article_snippet: Rhidian Morgan-Jones, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at both hospitals had no increase in heart rate, breathing or blood pressure
article_snippet: — signs of pain — and no wound complications or delayed healing, suggesting that it was effective.
article_snippet: One patient who has benefited is Ron Spree, 69, a retired major in the Royal Army Physical Training Corps.
article_snippet: One patient who has benefited needed a skin graft.
article_snippet: For the next ten years, One patient who has benefited was active as ever
article_snippet: One patient who has benefited was horrified, so One patient who has benefited sought a second opinion from Rhidian Morgan-Jones.
article_snippet: In December 2013, One patient who has benefited had the two-hour operation privately.
article_snippet: We need much larger ones to show this works and does no harm.
article_snippet: yet know how long effects will last.