Background

Donatas Chlebinskas is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with a private practice at Fi Clinica Kaunas. He specializes in foot and ankle trauma, degenerative conditions, deformities and sports injuries. He has a special interest in percutaneous and arthroscopic techniques.

Mr Chlebinskas has completed medical studies at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. He undertook the higher Orthopaedic Surgery training in LUHS Kaunas Clinics. Thereafter he worked as Orthopaedic Specialty Doctor and senior fellow at Milton Keynes University Hospital. During this time he has successfully undertaken European Board of Orthopaedics & Traumatology (EBOT) certification exam and later Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons Orthopaedics (FRCS Orth) certification exam.

He has completed British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (BOFAS) accredited fellowship at Mid Cheshire Hospital Foundation Trust in 2022 and (BOFAS) accredited fellowship at King’s College Hospital London in 2023. After this, he was appointed as a substantive consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in 2023.

He has contributed to writing a textbook “Essentials of Foot and Ankle surgery” by Maneesh Bhatia. He is a member of British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (BOFAS), European Foot & Ankle Society (EFAS), Minimally invasive Foot & Ankle Society (MIFAS)

Procedures List

• Ankle, Subtalar, Talonavicular arthritis treatment with Arthroscopic Arthrodesis

• Ankle instability treatment with Arthroscopic ligament repair

• Osteochondral defects of the talus arthroscopic treatment

• Peroneal tendon rupture arthroscopic repair

• Peroneal tendon instability treatment with arthroscopic retromalleolar groove deepening & superficial peroneal retinaculum repair

• Acute Achilles Rupture treatment with percutaneous repair

• Chronic Achilles tendon rupture treatment with Arthroscopic Flexor Hallucis Longus transfer

• Insertional Achilles Tendinopathy and Haglund's syndrome treatment with Arthroscopic calcaneoplasty, Percutaneous Zadek (dorsal closing wedge calcaneal) osteotomy.

• Ankle, Talus, Calcaneus, Navicular fracture Arthroscopy assisted reduction & fixation, PRIF, ORIF

• Lisfranc injury PRIF, ORIF

• Hallux valgus deformity treatment with Percutaneous Transverse and Akin Osteotomy (MICA, PECA)

• Hallux rigidus treatment with Percutaneous Arthroscopy assisted Cheilectomy, First Metatarsophalangeal Joint fusion

• Hammer and Claw toe treatment with percutaneous tenotomies, osteotomies, fusions.

• Metatarsalgia treatment with percutaneous metatarsal osteotomies: DICMO, DMMO, DOMMO, Proximal Medial Gastrocnemius Release

• Flatfoot deformity a la carte treatment: MIMCO, FDL transfer, Spring ligament augment, Arthroeresis screw, plantar closing wedge osteotomy, lateral column lengthening osteotomy, Arthroscopic TNJ & STJ fusion, Tendo Achilles Lengthening

• Cavovarus deformity a la carte treatment: Jone's procedure, Percutaneous BRT osteotomy, PTT transfer, endoscopic peroneus longus to brevis tendon transfer, lateralising calcaneal osteotomy, Tripple fusion, Wedge tarsectomy

• Skew foot treatment with a la carte approach, less invasive lateral column lengthening, FDL transfer, percutaneous basal lateral closing wedge metatarsal osteotomies, MICA, phalangeal Akinette osteotomies

Co author of Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic textbook - Essentials of Foot and Ankle Surgery by Maneesh Bhatia