Biography:

Mr Mark Gaston is an Orthopaedic and Trauma specialist with extensive experience in medico-legal reporting. He has expertise in injuries and trauma including soft tissue injuries to the spine and has written a PhD thesis on fracture repair (broken bone healing).

He has specialist expertise in paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, disability (including neuromuscular disorders such as cerebral palsy), gait (walking) disorders, knee arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery and foot and ankle surgery. He can provide reports in all aspects of injuries / negligence relating to children’s orthopaedics and cerebral palsy.

He regularly see clients for medicolegal reporting at Spire Shawfair Park Hospital in Edinburgh and at the Resolve Medicolegal offices in Glasgow - bespoke appointments can be arranged on request.

Clinical Interests:

My clinical practice incorporates all aspect of orthopaedics and trauma, both upper and lower limb, for children and adolescents and a significant portion of my NHS practice is at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh (Sick Kids).

I also have expertise in foot and ankle surgery and knee surgery in adults and children. In private practice, I regularly assess and treat conditions of the knee, foot and ankle in adults and children and perform surgery regularly for the breadth of these sub-specialties. This includes a high volume of minimally invasive ‘keyhole’ surgery (arthroscopy). I also have specialist expertise in the treatment of the orthopaedic manifestations of other diseases, particularly neuromuscular (muscle and nerve diseases such as cerebral palsy). This includes gait improvement surgery (including complex osteotomy procedures) for the improvement of walking disorders and hip reconstruction surgery. I am the clinical specialist of the gait analysis service for the South East Scotland region and this allows a highly specialist biomechanical instrumented 3-dimensional assessment of walking patterns, including kinematics and kinetics.

The common knee, foot and ankle conditions I treat are ACL reconstruction, osteochondritis dissecans, repair or removal of torn cartilage (meniscus), discoid meniscus, sports injuries, removal of loose bodies, ligament injuries, knee-cap dislocation, foot, ankle and toe deformity surgery (including bunion correction), ankle arthroscopy and the assessment and treatment of painful knee foot and ankle conditions.