Clinical Profiles - Toby Carlsson
Name: Toby Carlsson
Position (specialist area): HPC Registered Prosthetist/Orthotist. Toby has in recent years worked primarily with a caseload of younger trauma cases in a close-knit multidisciplinary setting.
Contact details: tcarlsson@pacerehab.com Tel: 0845 450 7357
Location: Based at Cheadle, Cheshire
Career: Toby cut his professional teeth in Iceland, working alongside Ossur Kristinsson, one of the major innovators within the field of prosthetics. He has practised prosthetics in the UK since 1989 both within the NHS and in private practice and taken a particular interest in prosthetic socket design during his career. He has extensive experience of providing expert witness services for the court, receiving frequent instructions from claimant and defendants as well as joint instructions.
Qualifications: Toby qualified as a Prosthetist/Orthotist at the School of Health Sciences, Jonkoping University, Sweden in 1987. He is registered with the Health Professions Council, a legal requirement to practice in the UK.
Memberships: Toby is also a member of ISPO (International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics), BAPO (British Association of Prosthetics and Orthotics) and features in the Directory of Expert Witnesses, as a Vetted Expert.
Recent activities: Toby has spent the last few years building the services provided by PACE Rehabilitation Ltd with his fellow directors. Their vision has been, and remains, a desire to create a truly multidisciplinary organisation with the key resources that the NHS can offer, but without the financial and organisational restrictions that weigh it down. He retains a full clinical workload consisting mostly of trauma cases.
Other
Toby is a regular contributor to educational events both within his own profession and other audiences with an interest in external limb prosthetics.