Medico-legal Resume

Martin Knight

MD FRCS MBBS

GMC # 1419669
Full GMC registration date: 12 November 1969
Specialist Register: Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery
27 Harley Street, London WIG 9QP
The Weymouth Street Hospital, London W1G 6NP

Medico-Legal Experience:

Previous experience with Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence claims for both Defendant (40%) and Claimant (60%) since 1990 with the focus on unbiased assessment for the court. He has unique experience of aware state endoscopic surgery which serves to offer the experience of real-time spinal pain sources instead of those conceived from inert scans, EMGs radiology and the results of pain management or surgery on anaesthetised patients. 30 years’ experience of resolving failed back surgery by aware state spine surgery has shown the considerable variation in the arrangement of nerves, the mechanisms involved in spinal and referred pain generation and led to the detection of newly appreciated sources of pain such as Cluneal Nerve trigger points often aggravated by trauma or malposture.

• Excellence in Report Writing – Bond Solon – March 2018

Publications:

1-22 and additional in Press

1. Knight MT, Dawson R. Effect of intermittent compression of the arms on deep venous thrombosis in the legs. Lancet 1976;2(7998):1265-8. doi: S0140-6736(76)92029-8 [pii] [published Online First: 1976/12/11]
2. Knight MT, Dawson R, Melrose DG. Fibrinolytic response to surgery. Labile and stable patterns and their relevance to post- operative deep venous thrombosis. Lancet 1977;2(8034):370-3. doi: S0140-6736(77)90302-6 [pii] [published Online First: 1977/08/20]

• Knight RQ, Stornelli DP, Chan DP, et al. Comparison of operative versus nonoperative treatment of lumbar burst fractures. Clin Orthop Relat Res 1993(293):112-21. [published Online First: 1993/08/01]
• Knight MT, Vajda A, Jakab GV, et al. Endoscopic laser foraminoplasty on the lumbar spine–early experience. Minim Invasive Neurosurg 1998;41(1):5-9. doi: 10.1055/s-2008-1052006 [published Online First: 1998/05/05]
• Knight MTN, Krishnan A. Spinal Surgery. In: Whitwam JG, McLoy RF, eds. Principles and Practice of Sedation. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1998:178-81.
• Wang JC, Shapiro MS, Hatch JD, et al. The outcome of lumbar discectomy in elite athletes. Spine 1999;24(6):570-3. [published Online First: 1999/04/02]
• Umehara S, Zindrick MR, Patwardhan AG, et al. The biomechanical effect of postoperative hypolordosis in instrumented lumbar fusion on instrumented and adjacent spinal segments. Spine 2000;25(13):1617-24. [published Online First: 2000/06/28]
• Goswami AK, Knight MTN, editors. Anatomical concepts in applied surgery of the lumbar spine: an endoscopic view. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
• Knight MT, Ellison DR, Goswami A, et al. Review of safety in endoscopic laser foraminoplasty for the management of back pain. J Clin Laser Med Surg 2001;19(3):147-57. doi: 10.1089/10445470152927982 [published Online First: 2001/07/27]
• Knight MT, Goswami A, Patko JT, et al. Endoscopic foraminoplasty: a prospective study on 250 consecutive patients with independent evaluation. J Clin Laser Med Surg 2001;19(2):73-81. doi: 10.1089/104454701750285395 [published Online First: 2001/07/11]
• Knight MTN. Lumbar foraminal pain sources: an aware state analysis. In: Simunovic Z, ed. Lasers in Surgery and Dentistry. Switzerland: European Medical Laser Association, 2001:233-52.
• Knight MTN, Ellison DR, Goswami A, et al. Review of safety in endoscopic laser foraminoplasty for the management of back pain. J Clin Laser Med Surg 2001;19(3):147-57.
• Knight MTN, Goswami A, Patko JT, et al. Endoscopic foraminoplasty: a prospective study on 250 consecutive patients with independent evaluation. J Clin Laser Med Surg 2001;19(2):73- 81.
• Freemont AJ, Watkins A, Le Maitre C, et al. Nerve growth factor expression and innervation of the painful intervertebral disc. J Pathol. 2002/07/13 ed, 2002:286-92.

1. Knight M, Goswami A. Lumbar percutaneous KTP532 wavelength laser disc decompression and disc ablation in the management of discogenic pain. J Clin Laser Med Surg 2002;20(1):9-13; discussion 15. doi: 10.1089/104454702753474940 [published Online First: 2002/03/21]
2. Knight M. The Evolution of Endoscopic Laser Foraminoplasty. Manchester University, 2003.
3. Knight M, Goswami A. Management of isthmic spondylolisthesis with posterolateral endoscopic foraminal decompression. Spine (Phila                                       Pa      1976) 2003;28(6):573-81. doi: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000050400.16499.ED [published Online First: 2003/03/19]
4. Knight RQ, Schwaegler P, Hanscom D, et al. Direct lateral lumbar interbody fusion for degenerative conditions: early complication profile. J Spinal Disord Tech 2009;22(1):34-7. doi: 10.1097/BSD.0b013e3181679b8a [published Online First: 2009/02/05]
5. Knight M. Transforaminal Endoscopic Treatment of the Degenerating Lumbar Spine. In Touch 2010;132:18-23.
6. M.T.N. Knight. Endoscopic laser foraminoplasty. Clinical privilege white paper 2012(60):1-13.
7. Knight MT, Jago I, Norris C, et al. Transforaminal endoscopic lumbar decompression & foraminoplasty: a 10 year prospective survivability outcome study of the treatment of foraminal stenosis and failed back surgery. Int J Spine Surg 2014;8 doi: 10.14444/1021
8. MTN K. Endoscopically determined pain sources in the lumbar spine. Oxford: Oxford University Press In Press.

In Press: Cluneal Nerve trigger point Treatment International Journal of Spine Surgery 2019