Mr Thomas Ember

Mr Tom Ember qualified from St George's Hospital Medical School (University of London). He undertook specialist training at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (Stanmore). His Spinal Fellowship was at Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

His current NHS appointment as a Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon is at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (Evelina London Children's Hospital)

Mr Ember specialises in adult and paediatric spinal conditions and offers the following procedures and techniques:

• Injection therapies (epidural, nerve root injections, facet joint blocks, CT guided cervical nerve root injections)
• Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty
• Microdiscectomy
• Lumbar spinal fusion
• Cervical fusion 
• Minimal access surgery
• Less invasive surgery techniques
• Operating microscope
• Vascular access surgeon assisted anterior spinal surgery
• Spinal navigation
• Robot assisted spinal surgery

Special interests

Adult and paediatric spinal surgery, scoliosis, kyphosis, tumours, fractures, lumbar and cervical disc degeneration, sciatica, back pain, injection therapies, vertebroplasty, minimal access surgery.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
• Robot assisted spinal surgery
• Spinal decompression
• Spinal fusion
• Spinal microsurgical discectomy
• Spinal deformity correction
• Scoliosis surgery
• Spinal injection therapy
• Thoracic back surgery
• Lumbar back surgery
• Kyphoplasty
• Spine fracture surgery
• Complex spinal disorders
• Sciatica
• Spinal stenosis
• Back Pain
• Degenerative disc disease
• Scoliosis
• Spine fractures and trauma
• Herniated Disc or Slipped Disc
• Lower Back Pain
• Spinal deformity
• Spine tumours and infections
• Upper Back Pain