Welcome to the Reading Shoulder Unit

The RSU is advertising a post of post-CCT shoulder fellow for One year to start in February 2012 and July 2012. Suitable candidates please send CV to Mrs Jan Barker (jan@readingshoulderunit.com)

Coming up courses:

GPs study evenings: 31 January 2012 and 28 February 2012 by the Reading Shoulder Unit: Practical course for injection techniques to the shoulder & Elbow.
Places are limited,
Please register early with Julie or Annamaria at the BIH 0118 9028060 or 8075. Read more

Advanced Shoulder arthroscopy course 22 - 23 March 2012.
Sponsored by Arthrocare. Read More

For GPs - New!!! NHS Choose & Book
The Unit at Berkshire Independent Hospital is open for NHS patients through Choose & Book (Extended Choice Network).
Book online or contact the secretaries.

New, New, New: Innovative Design Orthopaedics -
IDO Isometer 
Shoulder Muscle Strength Gauge. [Read More]

Listen to the BBC Radio4 programme - a day in the operating theatre at the Reading Shoulder Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital - Case Notes with Dr Mark Porter on Regional anaesthesia for shoulder surgery [Click Here]

Mr Ehud Atoun and the RSU team won the best paper (case reports) at BESS 2011 meeting in Newcastle.

Professor Levy and his team, wins the prestigiuos Kessel award for the best paper at the British Elbow and Shoulder (BESS) meeting in Oxford, March 2010.

Mr Haddo, Reading Shoulder fellow, wins the best poster award at the British Elbow and Shoulder (BESS) meeting in Liverpool, June 2008.

Excellent preliminary results with the VERSO® Bone preserving reversed total shoulder replacement [read more]

New statistical support service for researchers by a senior medical statistician is available. for more details [read more]