Mr Muhammad Dherijha : Neurosurgery

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Mr Muhammad Dherijha

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About me

Mr Muhammad Dherijha is Neurosurgeon with special interest in spine surgery. He is working as Complex spinal surgeon in Manchester Centre for Clinical Neuroscience, Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester.
Mr Dherijha received his MBBS degree from Nishtar Medical University, Multan. He has received his FRCS in Neurosurgery from Royal College of Surgeons , Edinburgh .
Mr Dherijha has worked as Neurosurgical trainee in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and completed his Neurosurgery training in Manchester then received advanced training in complex spine surgery in Liverpool and Manchester while working with both Neurosurgical and orthopaedics spinal surgeons.
Mr Dherijha's major research interests include outcomes related to minimally invasive spine surgery, cost-effectiveness and value of spinal surgery procedures, and comparative effectiveness of various treatments of spinal pathology. He has authored articles and presented on various conferences.
He has also contributed podcast and articles for resident doctors' education.

Special Expertise
Cervical Degenerative disease
Thoracic Degenerative disease
Lumbar Degenerative disease
Disc pathologies
Tumour

Procedures
Lumbar spine surgery
Cervical spine surgery
Thoracic spine surgery
Microdiscectomy
Cervical and Lumbar foraminotomy
Spine fusion
Spinal Injection

Certification
Certification of completion of specialist training Neurosurgery
Certification of completion of Complex spinal Fellowship Royal College of Surgeons , England

Neurosurgical training
London
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Manchester

Spinal Fellowship
The Walton Centre , Liverpool, UK
Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester

Areas of interest

Cervical disc
Cervical spine
Lumbar disc
Sciatica
Lumbar degenerative disease
Trauma
Tumour
Thoracic spine
Lumbar spine
Cervical spine

Medical secretaries

Anaesthetists worked with

Mr Muhammad Dherijha has worked with Dr Nadeem Iqbal at the following hospitals:
- Alexandra Hospital ()
Mr Muhammad Dherijha has worked with Dr Roger Smith at the following hospitals:
- Alexandra Hospital ()

Mr Muhammad Dherijha has worked with Dr Tarek Mostafa at the following hospitals:
- Beardwood Hospital (The) ()
Mr Muhammad Dherijha has worked with Dr Joseph Sebastian at the following hospitals:
- Alexandra Hospital ()

About me

Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Spinal Surgeon, Salford Royal Hospital , Manchester

Research interests

Mr Dherijha’s major research interests include outcomes related to minimally invasive spine surgery, cost-effectiveness and value of spinal surgery procedures, and comparative effectiveness of various treatments of spinal pathology. He has authored articles, book chapters, and presented on various conferences.
He has also contributed podcast and articles for resident doctors’ education.

Personal interests

Keeping active
Cricket
Rugby

(Additional) Languages spoken

Publications

1)Cauda equina syndrome , e Joint J 2023 Sep 1;105-B(9):1007-1012- British Neurosurgical trainees collaborative group
2)A postoperative complication of lumbar discectomy: A discal/annular cyst
M Saleemi , Sahibzada Abrar, Muhammad S Dherijha , K Joshi George , Surg Neurol Int
. 2022 Dec 9:13:572.
3) Presentation, management, and outcomes of cauda equina syndrome up to one year after surgery, using clinician and participant reporting: A multi-centre prospective cohort study
UCES Collaborators; British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative , Lancent Health Eur
. 2022 Nov 17:24:100545
4) Use of lumboperitoneal shunts with the Strata NSC valve: a single-center experience ,Ahmed K Toma 1 , Muhammad Dherijha, Neil D Kitchen, Laurence D Watkins ; urosurg
. 2010 Dec;113(6):1304-8
5) Foramen magnum decompression in adults with Chiari type 1 malformation: use of intraoperative ultrasound to guide extent of surgery ,Muhammad S A Dherijha, Mueez Waqar , Martin Scott Palin , Shafqat Bukhari : r J Neurosurg
. 2024 Aug;38(4):853-856
6) Acute cervical trauma , BMJ best practice 2022
BMJ best practice podcast

Courses offered to GPs

Lumbar spinal pathologies and management

My qualifications & training

Qualifications

FRCS Neurosurgery Royal College of Surgeons , Edinburgh 2021
BSc Bahauddin Zakeryia University , 1999
MBBS Nishtar Medical College , Multan 2001

GMC registration

Reference number 6049244

Details of entry to specialist register

CCT Neurosurgery , 2021

Affiliations / memberships

British Medical Association
Eurospine
British association of Spine Surgeons
Society of British neurological surgeons

My private practice

Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)

Procedures completed

V2540
Posterior excision of disc prolapse (including microdiscectomy +/- decompression) - lumbar region (1 or 2 levels) - ()

Alexandra Hospital ()
V2560
Decompression for central spinal stenosis (1 or 2 levels) - ()

Beardwood Hospital (The) ()
V2950
Anterior discectomy, decompression and fusion (including bone grafting) - cervical region (1 or 2 levels) - ()

Alexandra Hospital ()
V2543
Revision of posterior excision of disc prolapse with undercutting facetectomy +/- decompression (lumbar region) - ()

Beardwood Hospital (The) ()
A5211
Epidural injection (caudal) - ()

Spire Manchester Hospital ()
V4160
Posterior correction of degenerative adult kyphosis with instrumentation, +/-fusion (including spinal cord monitoring) - ()

Alexandra Hospital ()

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