Dr. Karunakaran. S, Consultant Spine Orthopedic Surgeon with an experience of 22 years. He practices at Precision Spine Center in Anna Nagar East as well as in Gleneagles Global Hospital, Chennai.
He is currently the Director Of Institute Of Advanced Spine Services, Gleneagles Global Hospital, Chennai. He was previously heading the spine unit at Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital of Chennai. He was also a Consultant at Meenakshi Medical Mission Hospital, Madurai during when he started the Department of Spine surgery.
Dr. Karunakaran.S specializes in the treatment of spinal disorders of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. He is particularly interested in the appropriate use of minimally invasive and motion-sparing techniques. He is pioneer in percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy under local anaesthesia for disc prolapse in this part of the country (Trans foraminal and inter laminar without stiches).
First in South India to have used INSPACE - interspinous implant for lumbar canal stenosis-Key hole spine surgery local anaesthesia. He also Pioneered in 3D printing of Spine and performed more than thousand spine surgeries-scoliosis, cervical spine pathologies, thoracotomies, laparotomy, disc replacement surgeries.
He has done his training in interlaminar percutaneous Endoscopic Cervical and Lumbar Spine Surgery with Dr. Sebastian Ruetten at St.Anna Hospital, Herne, Germany 2013and observership with Dr. Randal Betz at Shriners Hospital for Children-Philadelphia, USA at 2003. Observership in the spine unit at the Hospital for Special Surgery- NewYork, USA at 2003. He has also done Observership at AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) in New Delhi under Dr.Aravind Jayaswal in the year of 2004.
He has taken Advanced Training for Endoscopic Spine Surgery under Dr.Antony Yeung, Phoenix in USA at 2013-Trans foraminal endoscopic lumbar disc surgery, Dorsal Endoscopic Rhizotomy for Chronic back pain and latest Percutaneous Fusion techniques under local anaesthesia
Awards and Recognitions
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Mohandas Weller Gold Medal & Fellowship Award, Indo German Orthopaedic Foundation, India - 2017
Presented Trans laminar Screw Fixation for C6C7 and C7D1 a prospective study at ASSICON Kochi - 2013
Teaching faculty at the endoscopic spine workshop at Derven organized by Dr. Gore - 2013
Teaching faculty at Indian Orthopedic Association (IOA) for basic spine workshop - 2012
Teaching faculty For SCORE 2012 delivered a lecture on the current concepts in the management of Dorso Lumbar Spinal Fractures - 2012
Teaching faculty For SCORE 2011 delivered a lecture on the current concepts in the management of Spinal Tumours - 2011
Faculty in Instructional Course Spine –National level meeting, presented my work on recent advances in minimally invasive spine surgery. 2009-Lecture on “Surgical Anatomy and Bio-Mechanics of the Upper Cervical Spine”, Symposium on Cervical Spine Injuries - 2010
Management of bilateral facet joint dislocation of cervical spine through dorsal approach, ASSICON, Ahmedabad. - 2007
“Analysis of the therapeutic efficacy of the foraminal epidural steroid in the treatment of lumbar disc prolapse with sciatica”, ASSICON 2005,Bangalore - 2005
“Analysis of Cervico Dorsal Spine Tuberculosis” at OASISCON, Thrissur. - 2004
“Lumbar spine Stabilization & fusion in Grade I & II Listhesis”At Tamil Nadu Orthopedic Association, Coimbatore, India. - 2002
“Mosaic Plasty” An Experimental study on Articular surface rabbits At Tamil Nadu Orthopedic Association, Chennai, India. - 2000
“Auto Distracter – A warning” at Tamil Nadu Orthopedic Association, Madurai, India. - 1998
ASSI (Association of spine surgeons of India) Traveling Spine Fellowship - 2005
Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association Traveling Spine Fellowship - 2006
Best Publication in Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association Journal 2010 –Morphometric evaluation of the Cervical Spine Pedicle in our Population - 2010
First International Conference on Acetabular Fracture, Chennai - 1998
First International Conference on Elbow Disorders , Chennai - 1998
Attended the The 11th Congress of the International Musculoskeletal Laser Society (IMLAS) Korea - 2004
International paper presentation at Analysis of Lumbar Spine stabilization and Fusion in Grade I & II Listhesis Indo-German Orthopedic Foundation, Chennai, India. - 2002
International paper presentation at Tuberculosis of cervicodorsal Spine at Indo-German Orthopedic Foundation, Bangalore.. - 2002
Education
MBBS - Rajah Muthiah Dental College Hospital,Annamalai University,, 1995
MS - Orthopaedics - Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, 2000
Memberships
Indian Medical Association (IMA)
Tamil Nadu Orthopedic Association
Orthopaedic Association of South Indian States (OASIS)
Association of Spine Surgeons of India (ASSI)
Asian Academy of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
Experience
1995 - 1997 Medical Office in Surgical Gastroentrology at Wellington Hospitals
2000 - 2003 Junior Orthopedic Consultant at MIOT Hospitals
2005 - 2017 Contract Medical Consultant ( Dept of Orthopaedics ) at Government General Hospital
2003 - 2004 Consultant Spine Surgeon at Meenakshi Mission Hospital
2000 - 2003 Junior Orthopedic Consultant at MIOT Hospitals
