Mr Alex Torrie
Mr Alex Torrie, Consultant Spinal Surgeon
Based At
NHS base
Gloucester Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals
GMC Number
Clinic Timetable
Thursday PM
Clinical interests
Specialist spinal surgeon who regularly performs nerve root blocks, facet joint medial branch blocks prior to rhizolysis, kyphoplasty, lumbar microdiscectomy, lumbar spinal decompression, lumbar decompression and fusion including posterior instrumented and TLIF (Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion), posterior cervical decompression, ACDF (Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion) for brachalgia and myelopathy, cervical corpectomy and anterior column reconstruction and surgery for MSCC (Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression).
Professional Memberships
General Medical Council (GMC) Medical Defence Union (MDU) British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) British Association of Spinal Surgeons (BASS) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS)
Academic Background
Trained at the University of Bristol Medical School prior to completing basic surgical and higher surgical training in Trauma and Orthopaedics on the Bristol Orthopaedic Registrar training scheme. Then undertook a specialist neurosurgical complex cervical spinal fellowship. Completed a Doctorate (MD – higher degree) in anatomical sciences at the University of Bristol investigating the aetiology of Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis. Mr Torrie has published research concerning the basic science of spinal degeneration, risk factors associated with degenerate spondylolisthesis, the influence of lumbar spine subtypes on intervertebral disc degeneration in the young, the relationship between sacral kyphosis and pelvic incidence and factors influencing diagnosis in spondylodiscitis.
Based at
NHS base
Gloucester Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals
GMC Number
Clinic Timetable
Thursday PM
Clinical interests
Specialist spinal surgeon who regularly performs nerve root blocks, facet joint medial branch blocks prior to rhizolysis, kyphoplasty, lumbar microdiscectomy, lumbar spinal decompression, lumbar decompression and fusion including posterior instrumented and TLIF (Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion), posterior cervical decompression, ACDF (Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion) for brachalgia and myelopathy, cervical corpectomy and anterior column reconstruction and surgery for MSCC (Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression).
Professional Memberships
General Medical Council (GMC) Medical Defence Union (MDU) British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) British Association of Spinal Surgeons (BASS) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS)
Academic Background
Trained at the University of Bristol Medical School prior to completing basic surgical and higher surgical training in Trauma and Orthopaedics on the Bristol Orthopaedic Registrar training scheme. Then undertook a specialist neurosurgical complex cervical spinal fellowship. Completed a Doctorate (MD – higher degree) in anatomical sciences at the University of Bristol investigating the aetiology of Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis. Mr Torrie has published research concerning the basic science of spinal degeneration, risk factors associated with degenerate spondylolisthesis, the influence of lumbar spine subtypes on intervertebral disc degeneration in the young, the relationship between sacral kyphosis and pelvic incidence and factors influencing diagnosis in spondylodiscitis.