Specialist orthopaedic care across three Durban practices

Umhlanga · Gateway · Mount Edgecombe

Plan your consultation

Request an appointment.
Arrive prepared.

Choose a practice, tell us briefly how we can help, and read the information below before your visit. Our rooms will contact you to confirm the specialist, location and appointment time.

Consultation request

Tell us how we can help.

Submitting this form does not create or confirm an appointment. The selected rooms will contact you to check availability and make the booking.

Need urgent care?

For a serious injury, severe uncontrolled pain or another medical emergency, contact the nearest hospital emergency department. Do not wait for an online response.

This is a request only. Our rooms will contact you to confirm availability. Do not use this form for emergencies.

Before your appointment

A little preparation helps us make better decisions.

Please complete any requested registration before arriving and bring the information that allows your doctor to understand the full clinical picture.

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Complete your electronic registration

Our practice uses a secure electronic healthcare system. Once your appointment is confirmed, the rooms will provide an individual registration link. Please use that link to complete or update your personal details, medical history, medical-aid information and consent before your appointment.

If you do not receive the link or cannot complete it, contact the rooms before your visit.
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Bring the images—not only the report

All relevant X-ray, CT and MRI images are required. Our doctors read the radiology report, but they must also view the actual images to correlate the findings with your symptoms and examination before making an appropriate management decision.

Bring the disc or ensure that working online access to the images has been provided.
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Bring the useful essentials

  • Identification and medical-aid membership details
  • GP referral and authorisation, when required
  • Previous reports, operation notes and relevant records
  • A current medication and allergy list

Medical-aid guidance

Confirm your benefits before treatment.

Medical-aid rules differ between schemes and benefit options. Some require a GP referral before a specialist consultation or prior authorisation for investigations, injections, surgery or hospital admission.

Orthopaedic exclusions and restrictions

Certain medical-aid options exclude or restrict cover for particular orthopaedic conditions, investigations, procedures or joint replacements. Membership of a medical aid does not automatically guarantee cover. Please confirm your benefits, networks, exclusions, co-payments and authorisation requirements directly with your scheme.

Hip and knee replacement pathways

Our practice participates in all three programmes.

For qualifying members, primary hip or knee replacement may be covered in full or through a defined bundled benefit when the applicable programme, hospital network, clinical criteria and prior-authorisation requirements are met.

01Discovery Health joint arthroplasty / Major Joints Network
02JointCare
03Major Joints for Life
Programme eligibility is not automatic. Cover depends on your medical scheme, plan option, procedure, selected hospital, network rules, clinical entry criteria and approval. Revision, bilateral, trauma-related or other complex procedures may be managed differently.

Three practices

Contact the rooms directly.

Choose the location requested on your referral or the practice most convenient for you. Our team can guide you if you are unsure.

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