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Consultant Profile

Professor Stephen Eisenstein

Name:
Professor Stephen Eisenstein MB, BCh PhD, FRCS (Edin)
Practising at:
Spire Yale Hospital
Specialties:
  • Orthopaedic surgery
    • Spinal surgery
Special clinical interests:

(All spinal problems)
Spinal stenosis
Spinal pain
Spinal cancer
Back pain
Sciatica
Neck pain
Spinal stenosis

Research interests:

Biological preservation of disc
Back pain
Surgery for spinal stenosis

Current NHS and /or university posts:
Director, Centre for Spinal Studies, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry

Consultant Orthopaedic/Spinal Surgeon, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry

Honorary Professor, Keele University, Director of Research and Development, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry
Year of first medical qualification:
1968
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:

Society for back pain research
Cervical Spine Society
British Scoliosis Society
British Orthopaedic Association
International Study for the Study of the Lumbar Spine
Emeritus Member, South African Orthopaedic Association

 
Contact Details 
Telephone number to make a private appointment:
01978 268065
Private secretary telephone number:
01978 268 051
Private secretary email address:
Availability:
Tuesday am
 
Background Information 
Professional profile:

Professor Eisenstein completed his primary medical training in Johannesburg, South Africa graduating in 1968.  He won a Trueta Travelling Fellowship to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford and then undertook a fellowship in spinal surgery in Oswestry. 

He was honoured with the Sir Robert Jones Gold Medal and Prize in 1976.  This was followed by a doctorate on “The Human Lumbar Vertebral Canal” in 1980.  He is also past president of the Society for Back Pain Research  and past president of the British Cervical Spine Society.  He is a member of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine.  Previously, Director, Centre for Spinal Studies, and Direct of Research, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt, Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry. 

Practice: Assessment of new patients is based on a lengthy consultation which requires a full history, clinical examination and the management of appropriate spinal images, surgical operations are regarded as a last resort and seldom the first line of treatment.

Personal profile:

Wife is an accredited counsellor (CBT) in private practice. One son is a doctor. His hobbies include private flying, vintage, stained glass.

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Professor Stephen Eisenstein Orthopaedic surgery Consultant, Wrexham, private hospital specialist.

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