Mr Himanshu Shekhar

Mr Shekhar is a fellowship-trained Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon, who specialises in the management of degenerative conditions affecting the spine, including the neck, back, sciatica, sacro-iliac joint and the coccyx. Mr Shekhar completed his training in Neurosurgery at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh and was awarded the FRCS in neurosurgery by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2018. He completed the highly prestigious Leeds spinal surgery fellowship at Leeds General Infirmary in 2018. He gained the Fellowship of the European Board of Neurological Surgery in 2020 and his name was added to the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register in the speciality of neurosurgery in 2020. Mr Shekhar started working as a Consultant at the Ninewells Hospital in Dundee in 2020. He initially worked as a Locum Consultant Neurosurgeon from December 2020 to October 2021, before starting his current Consultant Spine Surgeon post in November 2021. Mr Shekhar has had comprehensive training in spinal surgery and he has chosen management of spinal degenerative disease and spinal trauma as his specialisation. He is also experienced in managing spinal disease with conservative therapy, injections and surgery. Please see reviews at https://www.doctify.com/uk/specialist/himanshu-shekhar-1 Mr Shekhar is actively involved in teaching junior doctors and trainee surgeons. He also teaches postgraduate students attending the University of Dundee's MCh(Orth) course. In his free time, he enjoys gardening and hill-walking.

Conditions/Diseases Lower Back Pain Leg Pain / Sciatica Neck Pain Arm Pain Lumbar or Cervical Herniated Disc or Slipped Disc Lumbar Stenosis Spine Fractures and Trauma Lumbar Facet Joint Pain Sacroiliac Joint Pain Coccydynia (Coccyx Pain) Nerve Root Entrapment Osteoporotic Spinal Fractures Spondylolisthesis & Spondylosis Radiculopathy Spinal Cord Compression Vertebral Compression Fracture Spinal Stenosis Spinal Pain Spinal Deformity Complex Spinal Disorders Degenerative Disc Disease Procedures/Treatments Lumbar Decompression Surgery Lumbar Microdiscectomy Revision Lumbar Spine Surgery Sciatica Surgery Spinal Decompression Spinal Injections Facet Joint Injection Nerve Root Injection Sacroiliac Joint Injection Medial Branch Nerve Blocks Coccyx Injection Spinal Injections For Pain Cervical (Neck) Surgery Anterior Cervical Discectomy And Fusion (ACDF) Cervical Laminectomy/Foraminotomy Surgery For Myelopathy Spinal Fusion Spinal Microsurgery Spinal Stabilisation Surgery Spine Fracture Surgery Vertebroplasty Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery Lumbar Back Surgery Laminectomy Discectomy