Dr David Melsom

Dr David Melsom is an Orthopaedic Surgeon who specialises in all areas of hand and upper limb surgery, including microsurgery, joint replacement and trauma reconstruction. He has been a specialist hand and upper limb surgeon since 2007 and was Director of Orthopaedic Surgery at Ipswich General Hospital from 2008-2012.

Dr Melsom graduated from the University of London in 1990 with a degree in Immunology and went on to finish his medical degree at the University of Bristol, UK. After teaching anatomy at Cambridge University, he started surgical training in Bristol, completing his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1998.

Specialising in Orthopaedics whilst on rotations in Oxford and Bristol, Dr Melsom completed his FRCS (Tr & Orth) in 2004. His interest in hand and upper limb surgery led him to take on fellowships to the Pulvertaft Hand Centre in Derby where the approach to hand and upper limb surgery included plastic surgery techniques, including flaps, soft-tissue cover, re-implantation, and nerve and tendon transfers. Dr Melsom completed the prestigious microsurgical course at Northwick Park Hospital in London and the hand fellowship in Nottingham, UK. Dr Melsom arrived in Australia in 2006 for the upper limb fellowship at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane. He was awarded his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2010.

Dr David Melsom currently practices at the Wesley Private Hospital, St Andrews Private Hospital in Ipswich, Mater Private Hospital Springfield and Westside Private in Taringa. His consulting rooms are located at the Wesley Private Hospital in the Evan Thomson Building, Brookwater and Ipswich.

Our services

Conditions Dr Melsom Treats.

Dr Melsom specialises in the assessment and treatment (surgical & non-surgical) of a number of hand and upper limb conditions. This section lists many of the common procedures which Dr Melsom performs, but is not an exhaustive list.

For more information on the various procedures, www.handcare.org is a useful patient information website.

Hand

Arthroplasty / Joint Replacement of the wrist (Motec), thumb and other small joints of the hand and wrist
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Dupuytren’s Disease
De Quervain’s Disease
Flexor Tendon Injuries and Extensor Tendon Injuries
Golfing Injuries
Hand & Finger Fractures
Nail Bed Injuries
Mallet Finger
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Osteoarthritis
Trigger Finger
Tendon Transfers
Soft tissue reconstruction, flaps and grafts

Wrist

TFC Injuries
Wrist Arthritis
Wrist Arthroplasty / Replacement
Nerve Injuries
Scaphoid Fracture
Scaphoid Non-Union
Wrist Fractures
Wrist Arthroscopy and keyhole surgical procedures

Elbow

Elbow injuries
Elbow arthroscopy
Cubital Tunnel Syndrome
Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis)

Shoulder

All aspects of arthroscopic (minimally invasive) shoulder surgery, including arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs, labral repairs for instability, and release of frozen shoulder
Shoulder Instability
Rotator cuff pathology
Shoulder Impingement with Subacromial Decompression (SAD)
Frozen Shoulder
Shoulder replacement- Pyrocarbon and stemless Total Shoulder and Reverse Total Shoulder Replacements