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Mr Stephen Southern
Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand surgeon
MBBS FRCS (plast)
Specialises in
- Carpal tunnel syndrome surgery
- Ganglion removal surgery
- Dupuytren's contracture
- Joint pain treatment (joint injections)
- Trigger finger release
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Virtual consultations:
I have been a Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand surgeon at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Teaching NHS Trust for the last 25 years.
I manage the following areas of Hand and wrist pathology.
Hand pain, wrist pain, thumb pain, finger pain, joint pain, chronic pain, Joint instability, joint laxity, joint stabilisation.
Trapped nerves, nerve compression, peripheral nerve, carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel, radial tunnel, median nerve, ulna nerve radial nerve. Hand trauma, nerve injury, tendon injury, ligament injury, joint injury, nerve reconstruction, tendon reconstruction, ligament reconstruction, tenolysis, joint contracture release, joint replacement. Burnt hand reconstruction.
Osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, joint replacement, joint arthroplasty, joint fusion, base of thumb arthritis, thumb arthroplasty, steroid injection, joint injections.
Dupuytren's disease, Dupuytren's fasciectomy, Dermofasciectomy, Recurrent Dupuytren’s. Spastic upper limb, upper limb dystonia.Trigger finger, trigger thumb, tenosynovitis, tendonitis, DeQervains tenosynovitis, RSI.Ganglion, cyst, giant cell tumour, nail deformity.
I am a keen academic and educator and hold a honorary senior lecture post at the University of Leeds.
General Medical Council Number: 3195602
Treatment information
Some of the principal treatments carried out by Mr Stephen Southern at Spire include:
Orthopaedics - hand and wrist
- Carpal tunnel syndrome surgery
- Dupuytren's contracture
- Ganglion removal surgery
- Joint manipulation treatment
- Joint pain treatment (joint injections)
- Pain management
- Scar revision
- Trigger finger release
Other treatments
- Arthritis including rheumatoid and Osteoarthritis
- Burnt hand reconstruction
- Degenerative problems
- Dermofasciectomy
- Dupuytren's disease
- Ganglion surgery
- Hand and joint replacements including thumb base arthritis
- Hand trauma and post trauma reconstruction
- Joint injections and fusion
- Medico-legal
- Nerve surgery, Carpal tunnel
- Tendon transfers following functional loss
- Trigger fingers/tendonitis
- Recurrence
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Additional information
Clinical interests
Hand surgery
Qualification and professional memberships
MBBS / University of London / 1987
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
FRCS / Edinburgh / 1992
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
FRCS (Plas) / Edinburgh / 1998
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
Professional memberships
British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
British Society for Surgery of the Hand
Professional leadership
Head of Clinical Service Burns and Plastic Surgery - Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust
Current NHS posts
Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand surgeon, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust, appointed 2000