Professional statement
Dr Kristian Kley is an internationally-renowned consultant knee and hip surgeon, specialising in minimally-invasive total hip replacement and reconstructive knee surgery. He is celebrated for his focus on precision, efficiency, and patient safety, having performed over 7,000 joint replacements in his career across Germany and the UK.
Dr Kley is a leader in advancing orthopaedic care, particularly pioneering the Kley Rapid Hip Replacement method, developing streamlined surgical workflows that serve as a model for other surgeons globally.
The Kley Rapid Hip technique is a highly refined approach to total hip replacement that combines minimally invasive surgery with enhanced patient care protocols. Dr. Kley's UK patients have experienced outstanding safety outcomes, with a 0% infection rate, 0% blood clot rate, and 0% hip dislocation or fracture rate. This focus on efficiency and safety allows patients to experience faster recovery times, often being up and walking within hours of surgery, and with significantly less post-operative pain.
Dr Kley is also an expert in joint preservation, advancing complex Osteotomy techniques for knee conditions and offering a comprehensive approach to Knee Replacement and non-surgical treatments for arthritis.
A dedicated academic, Dr Kley has contributed over 25 publications on knee osteotomy to PubMed in the last three years and delivers more than 15 international lectures annually. As an active guest member of the AO Foundation's Joint Preservation Expert Group, he lectures, teaches, and carries out live surgery for educational purposes, training surgeons worldwide in his pioneering methods..
Clinics
Orthopaedic Innovation
Central London, 9 Harley St, London W1G 9QY, UKMedical insurances accepted
Credentials
Professional experience
- 26 years of experience
- Consultant knee and hip surgeon, Orthopaedic Innovation (present)
Subspecialties
- Minimally-invasive total hip replacement
- Complex osteotomy
Professional memberships
- Guest member, Joint Preservation Expert Group of AO Foundation
Education
- State Exam Med (Staatsexamen), Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (2015)
Teaching posts
- Teaches techniques to make osteotomies safer to fellow surgeons via international courses
- Performs live surgery for educational purposes
Publications and conferences
- Arthroscopy Techniques 2020: pp e1-e8 Posteromedial Opening-Wedge Tibial Osteotomy for Metaphyseal Varus and Abnormal Posterior Slope Correction in Failed Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructions Using a Custom Cutting Guide Boris Corin, Adrian Wilson, M.B.B.S., B.Sc., F.R.C.S., Raghbir Khakha, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S., M.Sc., Kristian Kley, Sebastien Parratte, and Matthieu Ollivier, M.D., Ph.D.
- Managing intra-articular deformity in high Tibial osteotomy: a narrative review Grégoire Micicoi, Raghbir Khakha, Kristian Kley, Adrian Wilson, Simone Cerciello & Matthieu Ollivier
Languages spoken
- German
- English
Reviews
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- 10/10 amazing surgeon. Highly competent and couldn't fault his work
- Excellent surgeon. Very professional. Now have no knee pain. Highly recommend
- Very charming and extremely helpful.
- Dr. Kley did an excellent job in preparing me for the surgery and in performing the operation. Dr. Kley was very good at walking me through the risks and answering the questions I raised about the procedure. Thanks for following up post operation.
- Dr Kley was incredibly professional , approachable & patient . I felt completely confident in his care & wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him .
- Absolute professionalism combined with friendliness, kindness and care.
- Brilliant Doctor and extremely caring, couldn’t wish for a better one.