We recommend that adults and children over 12 wear face masks when attending our clinic, but no longer provide masks to patients and carers. Videoconsultations are conducted via telehealth at our dedicated virtual clinic. We are experiencing high demand for appointments hence require that all patients provide a referral prior to booking an appointment so that we can identify and manage urgent and emergency conditions in a timely manner, and so that our surgeons can assess your suitability for a telehealth appointment and identify any further information or tests that might be required before your consultation. If our surgeons assess that your condition (especially recent injuries) is best managed with hand therapy rather than surgery we may recommend that you see a qualified hand therapist (physiotherapist or occupational therapist) rather than schedule an appointment with our surgeons. Dr Tomlinson does not offer consultations and surgical services where a Medicare Rebatable Item Code does not apply; this includes injections for palmar hyperhidrosis. Dr Tomlinson has scheduled sabbatical leave during much of October, November and December 2023 so will not be available for urgent or emergency referrals during that time.

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Created 06 January 2013, last modified 03 April 2016

Dr Jill Tomlinson offers a full range of hand and wrist surgery services at Melbourne Hand Surgery. Some diverse information that she has developed (or is developing) for Melbourne Hand Surgery patients that does not fit into the other categories listed in the menu includes:

Arterial injuries
Blood thinners and hand surgery
Bone grafts
Botulinum toxin in vasospastic disorders of the hand
Boutonniere's deformity
Burns
Camptodactyly
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Corticosteroid injections
Driving with a hand injury
Enchondroma
Ganglion cyst
Glomus tumour
Gout
Hand anatomy
Hypertrophic and keloid scars
Joint fusion
Kienbock's disease
Needle fasciotomy / aponeurotomy
Pain management
Palmar hyperhidrosis
Polydactyly
Pyoderma gangrenosum
Removal of gouty tophi
Removal of rheumatoid nodules
Restoring amputated fingers
Skin grafts and flaps
Smoking and hand surgery
Splints and casts
Syndactyly
Trigger finger and thumb
Trigger finger (paediatric)
Wide awake hand surgery
Wrist arthroscopy

If you cannot find what you are searching for within this list please use the "search" function on this website to find it - with many different categories of hand injuries this is the quickest way to find what you are looking for if you haven't already found it! If you can't find what you're looking for please contact us, so we can develop new content that will assist you and future visitors.

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