About Miss Umarji

BMBCh (Oxon) MA Honours FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedics) LONDON HAND & WRIST SURGEON

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Miss Umarji is a London based Consultant Orthopaedic Hand & Wrist Surgeon who specialises exclusively in Hand & Wrist conditions. Her NHS base is at St George’s Hospital, London, one of  Europe’s leading teaching hospitals and also one of London’s Major Trauma centres, where she is the Clinical Director for Surgery and was previously CD for Trauma and Orthopaedics. She qualified from Oxford University in 1996 and has advanced fellowship training for specialised hand & wrist conditions. Her work comprises a fantastic mix of complex traumatic (fractures , injuries) and non-traumatic conditions as well as the more straightforward everyday conditions around the hand & wrist. She has  research interests in Dupuytren’s Disease, the use of Virtual Reality in Wide Awake Surgery and arthritis of the hand. Miss Umarji has a holistic approach in treating her patients.  She will always endeavour to exhaust  non-interventional / non-operative treatments before embarking on surgery. She is passionate about patient safety and will strive to provide safe and effective care. Having played sport to a high level herself she understands the importance of getting patients back to their sporting goals and is  comfortable looking after injuries in professionals and elite sportsmen and women. Miss Umarji consults in Wimbledon (Nuffield Parkside Hospital) and Central London (One Welbeck). She has excellent relations with allied professionals (plastic surgeons, radiologists, hand therapists, physiotherapists…) and aims to deliver excellent total care for all her patients.  Outside work Miss Umarji loves sport especially rugby , cricket and  tennis,  and is a player member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). She is  former national level cricketer and rugby player as well as Double Oxford Blue.     
BBC News reports on Virtual Reality in Hand Surgery

Miss Umarji leads surgical team in performing the first Total Wrist Replacement at St George’s Hospital, London

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Miss Umarji operates on scapholunate ligament getting Andrew Castle back on the tennis court

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Hand Conditions & Treatment
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Cubital Tunnel Syndrome
  • Guyon’s Canal Syndrome (Cyclists’ Handlebar palsy)
  • Dupuytren’s Disease
  • Collagenase (Xiapex) Injections for Dupuytren’s
  • Ganglion / Mucous Cysts (Pearl Ganglion)
  • Trigger Digits
  • Basal Thumb Arthritis
  • De Quervain’s Syndrome
  • Hand Fractures
  • Steroid Injections

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Wrist / Sports Injuries & Treatment
  • Wrist fractures
  • Scaphoid Fractures & non-unions
  • TFCC Injury
  • Scapholunate ligament Rupture
  • Proximal Row Carpectomy
  • Fusion – total and limited
  • Total Wrist Replacement
  • Kienbock’s Disease
  • Wrist Arthroscopy
  • Madelung’s Deformity / Growth Arrest
  • Arm Pump (chronic exertional compartment syndrome)

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