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Mr Chris Little is a well experienced Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in Shoulder, Elbow and Hand Surgery at Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital. He completed his medical degree, alongside his Bachelor’s degree, at the University of Bristol in 1993. He then completed his basic surgical training in Bristol and Gloucester, followed by his orthopaedic specialist training in Oxford. During this time, he served as a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford.

Mr Little later completed an Interface Hand Training Fellowship in Birmingham, after which he obtained his Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training. He currently serves as a Consultant in the Trauma Unit at Oxford , focusing on major trauma, hand surgery and shoulder and elbow issues.

In 2005, Mr Little was appointed as a Consultant at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and John Radcliffe Hospitals in Oxford. In 2008, he became Clinical Service Lead and in 2010, he became an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford.

Throughout his career, Mr Little has been deeply committed to advancing the field through clinical research, presenting, and publishing seminal work in shoulder, elbow, hand, and wrist surgery. Notably, he was recognised with the Lipman Kessell prize for his contribution to developing the Oxford Elbow clinical outcome Score.

Alongside his clinical work, he is involved in teaching and training the next generation of surgeons. Mr Little was elected to Council of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand from 2019-2021, instigating and leading initiatives addressing safe injection practices, local anaesthetic surgery techniques, and sustainability in surgery. His editorial on steroid injections during the COVID era received widespread attention, reflecting his influence in the field with over 20,000 accesses within the first 3 months.

Mr Little has expertise in the following areas:

• Wide-awake, local anaesthetic, no tourniquet hand surgery (WALANT), also for elbow
• Platelet-Rich Plasma injections for tendon problems
• Arthroscopic (keyhole) shoulder, elbow and wrist operations
• Nerve decompression (e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome treatment)
• Scaphoid fracture and non-union surgery, including vascularised bone reconstructions
• Clavicle (collarbone) fracture and AC joint repairs and reconstructions
• Wrist fracture and malunion correction surgeries
• Treatment for elbow stiffness (arthrolysis)
• Sports injuries
• Shoulder pain
• Elbow problems
• Hand pain
• Wrist pain