Personal Profile
Andrew Hilton is a Consultant Spinal Surgeon who is very experienced in both the diagnosis and the surgical and non-surgical management of spinal conditions that cause back pain, disc prolapse, sciatica, leg pain, neck pain and arm pain.
Mr. Hilton is also the lead Consultant Spinal Surgeon for Dorset. He encourages a holistic approach to care and likes to work closely with all the supporting healthcare teams in improving quality of life for his patients.
Andrew prefers minimally invasive, micro-surgical techniques where appropriate as this can reduce unnecessary trauma and risks that can be caused by more invasive surgery.
These include:
- Spinal decompression
- Microdiscectomy
- Spinal fusions
- Sacro-iliac joint fusion
- Pars defect repair
- Kyphoplasty
- Facet joint denervation
- X-ray guided spinal injections: caudal and lumbar epidurals, foraminal epidurals, sacro-iliac joint injections, pars injections, medial branch blocks.
Mr. Hilton trained at University College London Medical School and went on to complete his Orthopaedic training in London on the Guy’s and St Thomas’s training programme and in the South-East of England before becoming a Fellow of the Royal College Surgeons of both London and Edinburgh.
Mr. Hilton was awarded a Fellowship in Spinal Surgery at The Royal National Orthoapaedic Hospital. On completion of the Spinal Surgical Fellowship in 2005, he was offered a Consultant position in Dorset where he is the Lead Consultant Spinal Surgeon.
Andrew lives with his family in Dorset and enjoys spending his spare time with his family.
Academic background:
- BSc (Hons) Cell Pathology and Immunology
- MBBS (Lon)
- FRCS (Lon) FRCS (Edin) Trauma & Orthopaedics
- Spinal Fellowship at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London
