Professor Amarjit Anand

Professor Anand specialises in the latest & most advanced minimally invasive (MIS) spinal surgical interventions to treat disc prolapses, degenerative spines, spinal fractures and sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pathology.  Prof Amarjit Anand is a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon at Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). Amarjit graduated from The Royal Free & University College London Medical School in 2005. He trained in the Oxford and Cambridge rotation as a junior doctor. He completed his Trauma and Orthopaedic SpR training on the London NW Thames Rotation. During his training, Amarjit was an Anatomy Demonstrator/lecturer at Oxford University. He was elected onto the British Orthopaedic Trainee Association (BOTA), Specialist Training Committee (STC) and British Association of Spinal Surgeons (BASS) Executive Committee. He was awarded the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Presidents Gold Medal Podium Prize in 2012. Amarjit is well published and has over 50 international conference presentations. He is currently a journal reviewer for the Bone and Joint Journal (BJJ), Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London and an examiner on various FRCS(Tr&Orth) revision courses. Amarjit has received specialist training in spinal surgery at St Marys Hospital Major Trauma Centre, Charing Cross Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore during his SpR Training. He obtained his CCT in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery in 2015. He has completed two Post-CCT Spinal Fellowships at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and a 1-year Complex combined Neurosurgical & Orthopaedic Spinal Fellowship in the Queens Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham. Amarjit has travelled to various Centres of Excellence in Spain, Germany & France to develop specialist skills. Amarjit has received training in modern spinal techniques, including navigation and is an advocate for innovation, advances in spinal surgery technology, motion-preserving surgery, bespoke patient-specific implants and minimally invasive surgery.

Areas of interest Treatments: - Provided for back pain, sciatica, neck pain, arm pain, pins & needles, numbness - Spinal injections - entire spine - Denervation (rhizolysis) - using radiofrequency & cryotherapy - entire spine & SIJ - Cervical spine surgery ACDF, Cervical Disc Replacement (CDR), MIS posterior cervical decompression & fusion (DTRAX) - Tubular microdiscectomy for disc prolapse / sciatica / radiculopathy / slipped disc - Lumbar decompression surgery for spinal stenosis - Lumbar spinal fusion - MIS TLIF/PLIF - for instability, spondylolisthesis - MIS Sacroiliac Joint (SIJ) fusion - Vertebroplasty / Balloon kyphoplasty / Sphereplast - osteoporotic fractures - Coccygectomy / tailbone pain - Transforaminal/Trans-Kambin approach Lumbar discectomy using laser (PLDD) - Transforaminal Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy/Decompression (TELD) - Basivertebral Nerve Ablation (BVN) for vertebrogenic pain - Prolotherapy / PRP - Revision surgery / Failed back surgery / 2nd opinions