Iqroop Chopra: Consultant Spinal Surgeon, Cardiff, Wales and Hereford

Mr Iqroop Chopra is a Consultant Spinal Surgeon in Cardiff, Wales with expertise in the operative and non-operative management of neck and back pain, sciatica and brachalgia; arising from disc prolapse, stenosis, listhesis, infection, trauma, deformity and tumour.

Mr Iqroop Chopra, MBBS, MRCSEd, FRCS(SN), DNB, specialises in spinal surgery. On completing his surgical membership with the Royal College of Surgeons, he proceeded to complete his neurosurgical training on the North Thames rotation at Imperial College and University College of London. The last two years of training were spent learning about complex spinal surgery with an accredited fellowship staged between Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. This gave a unique opportunity to develop an understanding of spinal pathology from both an orthopaedic and neurosurgical perspective.

Iqroop is now based at Cardiff working in the NHS between Llandough Hospital and University Hospital of Wales. He has private practice privileges at Vale Healthcare in Cardiff (both at the Cardiff Bay Clinic and The Vale Hospital) and Nuffield Hospital in Hereford. He is the first and only spinal fellowship trained neurosurgeon in Wales with targeted training in microscopic and minimally invasive techniques. These are applied into his practice in skull base procedures and intricate spinal dissection helping treat complications like CSF leak, recurrent discs, arachnoiditis and skeletal instability. He has specific interests in cervical and lumbar spinal fusions, artificial cervical disc replacement, spinal tumours - intradural and extradural, syringomyelia and Chiari malformation.

He is on the GMC and Neurosurgery Specialist Register. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and member of various spinal societies around the world.

Membership of professional organisations

• Joint Section on Spinal surgery of AANS/CNS

• British Association of Spinal Surgeons

• AOSpine International

• Congress of Neurological Surgeons

• Society of British Neurological Surgeons

• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

• Asian Conference of Neurological Surgeons

• Neurological Society of India

• Medical Protection Society

Expertise and spinal treatment offered

• Neck pain and brachalgia (radiating arm pain)

• Back pain and sciatica

• Radiculopathy and myelopathy

• Slip disc (prolapsed) and canal stenosis

• Spinal infection, trauma, tumour

• Minimally invasive surgery including microscopic surgery

• Artificial disc replacement

• Fusion surgery for deformity

• Soft and dynamic stabilisation

• Chiari malformation and tethered cord 

Spinal operations and procedures 

• Anterior cervical discectomy/fusions

• Posterior cervical foraminotomies/fusions

• Lumbar microdiscectomies/decompression

• Lumbar fusions for degenerative disease/listhesis

• Foramen magnum decompression

Publications

• Research thesis on Anterior cervical fusion and endoscopy

• Book chapters on micro-discectomy and spinal surgery

• Over 20 published papers, abstracts in various peer reviewed journals

Where can I get private spinal surgery and NHS treatment?

Private practice

• Vale Healthcare – Cardiff Bay Clinic

• Vale Healthcare – The Vale Hospital

Mr Chopra conducts his private clinic at the Diagnostic and Interventional Spine Centre in Vale Healthcare’s Cardiff Bay Clinic and at The Vale Hospital. The Spine Centre is a state-of-the-art-clinic with full access to diagnostic imaging facilities and tests including MRI, X-ray, screening, and ultrasound), and on-site physiotherapy, chiropractic and osteopathic therapy.

Patients are seen at consultation, and can often receive any diagnostic tests and results on the same day. This provides patients with rapid access to diagnostic facilities, therapies and injection techniques.  

Mr Chopra also see’s patients at Vale Healthcare’s new private hospital – The Vale Hospital. This is a new state-of-the-art independent hospital in Hensol (in the Vale of Glamorgan), approximately 15 minutes drive outside of Cardiff. The Vale Hospital offers exceptional healthcare facilities for private care and healthcare choice for patients in Cardiff and South Wales.

NHS base

Private practice

Contact details

Llandough Hospital

Spinal Unit

Dept of Orthopaedics                                                 

Penlan Road
Penarth
Cardiff
CF64 2XX

Tel: 029 2071 5289 (secretary)

Website: www.vale-healthcare.com

Website: www.vale-hospital.com

Email: Tena.Halliday@Cardiffandvale.nhs.wales.uk

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