Dr. Rajagopalan Krishnan currently works at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi as a Senior Consultant in Orthopedics and Spine. For 10 years, he worked at Mid-Cheshire Hospital, where he saw around 3200 OPD spine patients each year. Every year, he does around 400 spine procedures.

Furthermore, he is interested in complex spine surgery such as manubriosternotomy for upper thoracic anterior instrumentation, jaw splitting craniocervical surgery, total gastrectomy with lumbopelvic reconstruction, skull separation cervical osteotomy, complex revision of failed spine surgery and shape memory metal rod and also staple instrumentation systems for spinal deformities.

Simple cervical and lumbar discectomies to cervical and lumbar disc replacements, vertebrectomies, TESSYS, spinal trauma reconstruction, spinal tumors, and the whole spectrum of spinal abnormalities have all been performed. In addition, the Sacred Tarlov cyst procedures and the long and short-segment anterior rectification have been implemented.

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Major Specialties

• Spine disc and degenerative disorders,
• Spinal deformities
• Spinal infections
• Spine Injuries
• Spine tumors

Member of Associations

• British Orthopedic Association
• Association of Spine Surgeons of India
• Delhi Spine Society

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Qualifications

• MBBS, 1976, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University
• MS, Central Institute of Orthopedics at Safdarjang Hospital
• FRCS
   

Work Experience Of Dr. Rajagopalan Krishnan

Senior Consultant, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi

Consultant, Mid-Cheshire NHS Trust with a private practice at BMI South Cheshire Hospital and Spire Stretton Hospital, 1999

Specialties

• Cervical and lumbar discectomies, cervical and lumbar disc replacements, vertebrectomies, TESSYS, Reconstruction for spinal trauma, Spinal tumors, and the full spectrum of spinal deformities

Treatments

• Anterior Cervical Corpectomy Spine Surgery
• Anterior Cervical Discectomy
• Cervical Disc Replacement Surgery
• Lumbar Laminectomy for Spine
• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
• Scoliosis Spine Surgery
• Slip Disk Treatment
• Spinal Fusion Surgery
• Spinal Stenosis
• Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty