Name: Toby Carlsson

Position (specialist area): HCPC 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: 0161 428 5500

Location: Based in Bredbury (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, receiving frequent instructions from claimants 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 and Care Professions Council, a legal requirement to practice in the UK.

Certifications: (Upper extremity prosthetics) – Myobock, Ottobock Dynamic Arm, Ottobock Michelangelo, iLimb Digits.

(Lower extremity prosthetics) – Ottobock Genium, C-Leg and Kenevo; Endolite Orion & Linx; and BiOM powered ankle.

Memberships: Toby is 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 clinical workload consisting mostly of trauma cases. In recent years he has set out to develop his understanding of the principles of bone anchored (“osseo-integrated”) prostheses and travelled extensively to learn about this concept which is only just starting to emerge in the UK.

Other: Toby is a regular contributor to educational events both within his own profession and other audiences with an interest in external limb prosthetics.

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