Dr. Jernigan is a Board-Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon specializing in conditions affecting the hand, wrist and elbow.
His clinical interests include hand, forearm, and elbow fractures and soft tissue trauma including tendon and neurovascular injuries, inflammatory and osteoarthritis, compression neuropathies, wrist disorders, elbow instability, elbow arthroplasty, and management of post amputation neuromas.
Dr. Jernigan began his academic career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest distinction and received the Department of Chemistry Merck Index Award.
He continued at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to receive his medical degree, and during this time he was elected a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
Dr. Jernigan also completed his surgical internship and orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  After residency, Dr. Jernigan completed a …fellowship in hand and upper extremity surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, ranked by US News and World Report as the #1 orthopaedic hospital. He has participated in multiple medical mission trips.

Raleigh Orthopaedic - Raleigh

3001 Edwards Mill Rd

Raleigh

NC

27612

USA

(919) 263-0252

https://www.raleighortho.com/

• General Orthopedics
• Hand Wrist and Elbow Surgery

• Hand surgery
• Wrist surgery
• Elbow surgery
• Total elbow replacement

• Trigger Finger
• Wrist Tendonitis
• Acute & chronic arm pain (age 4 & up)
• Acute & chronic hand pain (age 4 & up)
• Acute & chronic wrist pain (age 4 & up)
• Acute elbow pain (age 4 & up)
• Chronic elbow pain over 4 weeks (age 18 & up)
• Bicep pain
• Forearm pain
• fracture
• Golfer
• tennis or thrower’s elbow
• Dupuytren’s contracture
• Ganglion Cyst - wrist or hand
• Hand laceration
• Finger Pain
• Mallet Finger
• Polydactyly
• Thumb Pain
• Hand fracture
• Hand scaphoid pain
• Hand tendonitis
• weakness/numbness
• Carpal Tunnel
• Wrist fracture