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About Mr Murtuza Sikander

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Mr Sikander currently practices as a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he is the Lead Clinician for the Neurosurgical Spinal service. 

Mr Sikander holds fellowship training programmes in skull base and spinal surgery from King’s College Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital, The Royal London Hospital and The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Prior to taking up a busy Neurosurgical practice in Oxford, he practised as a Consultant Neurosurgeon and spinal surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital in London.

Mr Sikander treats patients with a wide variety of spinal disorders including spinal pain due to degenerative pathology, spinal stenosis, spinal cord tumours, spinal vascular malformations, adult congenital malformations, Arnold-Chiari Malformations, spinal cord syrinx and patients requiring complex revision surgeries.

He is also a Neurosurgeon and treats cranial disorders and has a sub-specialist interest in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, which is a very common and debilitating but treatable condition that may masquerade as dementia in the elderly.

Mr Sikander has pioneered and developed new techniques and technologies in brain and spine surgery including endoscopic spine surgery, spine awake surgery and treatment of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (surgically treatable dementias).

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  • Management of spinal pain and sciatica (surgery and injections)
  • Neck pain and arm pain management (including artificial joint replacement in the neck and fusion surgery)
  • Disco Gel injections for disc disease (non-surgical management of disc pain; Endoscopic spine surgery
  • Minimally invasive Fusion Surgery
  • Surgery for complex congenital spinal problems, vascular malformations, spinal cord tumours, Arnold Chiari Malformations, Post spinal cord Syringomyelia; Surgically treatable Dementia( Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus)

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Languages spoken

English, Hindi

GMC number

6130324
A General Medical Council (GMC) number is a unique ID that shows a specialist is officially registered and approved to practice medicine in the UK.

Qualifications

DNB Neurosurgery, FRCS- Surgical Neurology, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

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