Hospitals
Central
- Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital
Tertiary
- King Edward VIII Hospital
- Grey’s Hospital
- Ngwelezana Hospital
- King Dinuzulu Hospital
Regional
- Addington Hospital
- Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital
- RK Khan Hospital
- Stanger Hospital
- Port Shepstone Hospital
- Edendale Hospital
- Northdale Hospital
- Ladysmith Hospital
- Madadeni Hospital
Clinical Services
Arthroplasty
Our units at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital and Greys Hospital deliver a specialized service to a large number of patients presenting with severe joint arthritis and deformity. We perform a high volume of complex primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty for patients presenting with osteoarthritis, inflammatory arthritis, osteonecrosis and other common joint pathologies.
Arthroscopy
Knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist and ankle arthroscopy are performed at various centers across KZN. Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, ACL reconstruction and ankle fusion are some of the common procedures performed using keyhole surgery and modern, evidence-based surgical techniques and implants. All of our teaching institutions are equipped with high definition arthroscopic stacks and instruments.
Paediatric Orthopaedics
Our units are based at King Edward VIII Hospital, and Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital in Durban, and Grey’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg. We offer a comprehensive paediatric orthopaedic surgery service which includes the management of musculoskeletal trauma and infections, developmental and congenital deformities including clubfoot, and the orthopaedic manifestations of neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy and spinal dysraphism.
Spine
Our spinal orthopaedics units offers expert, personalized care to patients with a wide range of back and neck conditions, including treatment for spinal arthritis, trauma, infective and inflammatory conditions, disc degeneration, spinal deformities and tumours. We are a centre of excellence and we endeavour to integrate traditional surgical methods with the latest minimally invasive techniques. This put us in a pole position to provide full-spectrum care from routine cervical, thoracic and lumbar surgery to complex spinal reconstruction and revision surgeries. Our aims are to take excellent care of paediatric and adult patients, advance our field through research and train the future generation of spine surgeons.
Tumor, Sepsis & Reconstruction
Our units are based at King Edward VIII Hospital, and Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital in Durban, and Grey’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg. We offer a comprehensive paediatric orthopaedic surgery service which includes the management of musculoskeletal trauma and infections, developmental and congenital deformities including clubfoot, and the orthopaedic manifestations of neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy and spinal dysraphism.
Orthopaedic Trauma
Road accidents and violent crime contribute to the high incidence of trauma in Kwazulu-Natal. Our surgeons and trainees are exposed to a broad spectrum of traumatic injuries ranging from complex open fractures of the tibia to neck of femur fractures in the elderly. Trauma consultants play a pivotal role in ensuring that our patients receive timeous and effective fracture fixation using modern surgical implants to ensure fracture union and early return to work. Surgeons across different hospitals and sub specialities often collaborate to ensure optimum patient outcome.
Hand & Peripheral Nerve
Upper limb unit provides outpatient, inpatient and surgical services relating pathologies and trauma to brachial plexus, shoulder, elbow wrist and hand. This includes congenital and acquired deformities of the arm, forearm, hand and wrist.
Shoulder & Elbow
Our Unit aims to deliver world-class surgical care and rehabilitation for patients with complex shoulder and elbow pathology, underpinned by evidence-based medicine and undertaken in a multidisciplinary team environment. We cover all aspects of shoulder & elbow surgery, including routine and complex primary arthroplasty, revision arthroplasty, prosthetic joint infections, instability, and rotator cuff dysfunction. Patients benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach with physiotherapists, occupational therapists, microbiologists, radiologists, rheumatologists, and a clinical nurse specialist.
Foot & Ankle
The Foot & Ankle unit is a specialist orthopaedic service catering for all Adult Foot and Ankle problems. Services are primarily focused on adult reconstructive surgery procedures for degenerative and arthritic conditions as well as foot deformities, but also includes sports-related and trauma . We offer treatment of hallux valgus, flatfoot deformities and all forms of ankle arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and all its involvement of the foot and ankle, trauma as it relates to ankle, talus , calcaneus and midfoot fractures, sports medicine injuries of the ankle with ligamentous injury and arthroscopic procedures including ankle debridement, osteochondral lesion treatment and ankle fusion.