About Dr Shee Yan Fong

Dr Fong Shee Yan obtained his bachelors from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1996. In 2003, he underwent further training in Orthopaedic Surgery and was awarded the N Balachandran Award for Outstanding Orthopaedic Trainee from the Singapore Orthopaedic Association. He finished his fellowship in Spine Surgery at the Calgary Spine Centre in Canada between the years 2004 and 2005 then became a Consultant in Spine Surgery. His subspecialty is in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery performed as day surgery cases without needing hospitalization, such as micro-discectomy and percutaneous discectomy for slipped disc, vertebroplasty for fractures of the spine and Facet joint and pars inter-articularis injections.


Contact Dr Shee Yan Fong

Phone: 696505947

Education

  • MBBS
  • FAMS
  • FRCS
  • MMed Ortho

Awards and Achievements

  • Young Investigator Award (1999)
  • Spring Singapore Excellent Service Healthcare Silver (2008) and Gold (2009) Award
  • Ministry of Health Quality Improvement Poster Competition Merit Award (2007)
  • Singapore Orthopaedic Association N Balachandran Awards (2003)
  • Orthopaedic Association Young Orthopaedic Surgeon (1999)

Dr Shee Yan Fong offers the following treatments

  • Facet joint and pars inter-articularisinjections
  • Vertebroplasty for fractures of the spine
  • Micro-discectomy and percutaneous discectomy for slipped disc

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Recent Answers

How do you treat DDD (degenerative disc disease) with a slipped disc?

Degenerative spine disease includes both degenerated disc (known as "slipped" disc by lay person) and facet joint arthritis. It is actually not a "disease" (unlike cancer or diabetes) but a natural aging process of our spine as we age, similar to wear and tear in our joints and dementia. As such degenerated spine including "slipped" disc is not a disease that can be "treated". Rather, "treatment" for patients actually means management (or "reduction") of his neck/back pain and subsequent disability.

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Dr Shee Yan Fong

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What are common symptoms of degenerative spine conditions?

The term degeneration in medicine means deterioration or decline of function of a cell, tissue or an organ with time, usually as a person ages. Osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, atherosclerosis and Alzheimer disease are well known examples. Degenerative conditions occur in everyone as everybody will age without fail (i. e. "natural" degeneration) often after age of 40-50 but some degenerative conditions can occur at younger age (i. e. "acquired") after an injury (accident or overuse), an infection, or after inheriting a hereditary disease (e. g. ankylosing spondylitis of the spine).

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Dr Shee Yan Fong

Orthopaedic Surgeon

How is an L4-L5 disc bulge treated?

An L4-5 disc bulge in your MRI, assuming your MRI radiologist meant a small disc protrusion in his report, represents an ageing disc that has naturally lost its water content and its cushion and height with time, resulting in a bulge, like a bulging "worn out" car tyre. Because this is a natural ageing process, it cannot be reversed or “cured” and disc bulges can also be seen in MRI even if you have no back pain as you age.

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Dr Shee Yan Fong

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Recent Sessions

Spine Health & Slipped Disc Treatment

Dr Fong is an experienced Spine-specialised Orthopaedic Consultant in Singapore practising Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. His training was in Calgary Spine Centre, Canada and his former practice was in Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he set up his "keyhole" spine surgery practice and has successfully performed lumbar disc surgery as ambulatory day surgery in Singapore with patients going home within a day.

This enterprise won the Ministry of Health Quality Improvement Poster Competition Merit Award on 11 Oct 2007. He now progressed to perform Less Invasive Spine Procedures without the need of general anaesthesia -percutaneous discectomy for disc herniation, an interspinous distraction for spinal stenosis and vertebroplasty for compression fractures.

Dr Fong uses comprehensive quality management for all his patients, utilising both conservative non-surgical as well as less invasive surgical techniques to treat his or her back or neck pain.

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Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital 38 Irrawaddy Rdsingapore 329563

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* This profile has been last updated on September 5, 2020.