Research activities include an integrated multidisciplinary approach encompassing disease, pain and injury. What we focus on A prospective cohort study looking at chronic opioid use following total hip and knee arthroplasty.An investigation into the nature of pain experience in patients before and after knee joint replacement.Interorganisational collaborations including Stryker orthopaedics. Key research staff Mr Gavin Clark, Head of Department, Orthopaedics Research location St John of God Midland Private HospitalsSt John of God Midland Public Hospitals