About the Sports Injury Surgery, Coote’s Lane

Breandán Long is the principal and consultant orthopaedic surgeon based at the Sports Injury Clinic. He graduated in medicine from University College Galway and did his orthopaedic training in Dublin and an arthroscopy fellowship in Birmingham, U.K.

He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine.

His specialist areas of interest are sports injuries, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction of the knee and rotator cuff repair of the shoulder. Surgery is performed in Aut Even Hospital, Kilkenny and Barrington’s Hospital, Limerick both of which are JCI accredited hospitals.

Sports Injury Blog

Breandán maintains a Sport Injury Blog which features articles, resources, tips, advice etc. on sports injuries. Please click here if you would like to subscribe to Breandán’s Sports Injury Blog.

Patient Information

One of the objectives of the Sports Injury Surgery is to build an online repository of patient information documents covering a wide range of topics such as Knee and Shoulder Orthopaedic Surgery, Arthroscopy, Physiotherapy, Manual Therapy, Pilates, Shockwave Therapy etc. We keep this section updated regularly with new documents so please check back from time to time.

Marble City Physiotherapy & Sports Science Clinic

Located within the Sports Injury Surgery complex is the Marble City Physiotherapy & Sports Science Clinic. This is a premier facility for delivery of orthopaedic physiotherapy treatment, rehabilitation and sport medicine care.