Specialist in hip and knee surgery, and bone & soft tissue tumours.

Dr Matthew Broadhead is an orthopaedic surgeon consulting in Sydney and Coffs Harbour. His practice covers hip and knee replacement and surgery for bone and soft tissue tumours, as a member of the sarcoma unit at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Patient guideHip & kneeFor patients with arthritis, or who have been told they may need a hip or knee replacement. Five short chapters explain the options — starting with the non-surgical ones.Patient guideBone & soft tissue tumoursFor patients referred about a lump, a bone lesion or a suspected sarcoma. These pages explain the tests, the team, and each step of specialist treatment.

Approach

An operation is worth doing when it is more likely than anything else available to improve a patient's life. Much of specialist practice is helping people decide not to have surgery yet — arthritis managed with exercise and weight management, a benign tumour observed rather than excised.

When an operation is the right step, it is planned carefully, explained fully, and performed in the setting that gives it the best chance. For sarcoma, that means a specialist centre, where treatment is planned by a multidisciplinary team.

A light corridor with timber floors leading to the consulting rooms

A waiting area with soft seating by a window

Non-operative care first

Most joint pain is managed without an operation. Surgery is considered when the simpler measures have genuinely been tried and are no longer enough.

Evidence, plainly explained

Recommendations follow published outcomes and national registry data. Patients are given the numbers, including the risks.

The right setting for sarcoma

Sarcoma is rare, and outcomes are better when it is treated at a specialist centre, with care planned by a multidisciplinary team rather than any one doctor.

A decision you understand

Patients should be able to explain their own operation — what it is for, what it involves, and what recovery asks of them — before consenting to it.

Affiliations & memberships

Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
Fellow, Australian Orthopaedic Association (FAOrthA)
Member, Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons (ASOS)
Member, Section of Academic Surgery, RACS
Member, Academy of Surgical Educators, RACS
Bone & Soft Tissue Sarcoma Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Australian Orthopaedic Association Research Foundation — General Director & Research Advisory Committee
Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales
Australian Medical Association