Mr Giuseppe Sforza

Mr Sforza studied medicine at University of Bari, Italy between 1986 and 1992. After his general surgical training, he continued his higher orthopaedic training at the same university. He spent periods of fellowship at Danderyd Hospital - Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and as visiting fellow at The Southern California Orthopaedic Institute Los Angeles, United States. In 1999 he was appointed shoulder surgery fellow at the Reading Shoulder Unit at The Royal Berkshire Hospital, where he gained vast experience in shoulder and elbow surgery. In 2000, after completion of his fellowship at the Reading Shoulder Unit, he returned to Italy and was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Matera, Italy as Head of the Shoulder and Elbow Unit and from 2006 at Policlinico di Bari at the University Hospital. He has attended regularly the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, United States since 2001 for visiting fellowships under S. O'Driscoll and B. Morrey and elbow courses to improve his knowledge and clinical practice in elbow surgery. In October 2004, Mr Sforza joined the Reading Shoulder Unit. Then in 2007, he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Redditch, Worchester NHS Trust and in 2013, he completed a masters in hand and wrist surgery at University of Milan.

I am specialised in problems affecting the upper limb and in particular of the shoulder and elbow. He is proficient in musculoskeletal diagnostic ultrasound and performs ultrasound guided injections. I perform surgical (open and arthroscopic) treatments for shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand conditions.