Biography

Dr S. Karunakaran has an overall experience of 25 years and is currently working as an Associate Professor of Spine Surgery. He has pioneered in percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy under local anaesthesia for disc prolapse.

He is the fiirst in South India to have used INSPACE interspinous implant for lumbar canal stenosis Keyhole spine surgery local anaesthesia. He has performed more than 1000 spine surgeries scoliosis, cerv ical s pine pathologies, thoracotomies, laparotomy, disc replacement surgeries. He has presented various papers.

He is also an esteemed member of Tamil Nadu Orthopedic Association, Association of south Indian states, Association of Spine Surgeons of India, and Asian Academy of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery.
Speciality
Spine Surgery
Areas of Expertise
Scareless Spine Surgery
Scoliosisand Kyphosis Revision
Percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy
Cervical spine pathologies
Thoracotomies & Lumbar Fusions
Laparotomy
Disc replacement surgeries
Spinal Cord Injury and Rehabilitation
Recognition's and Fellowhips
Mohandas Weller Gold Medal & Fellowship Award at 10th Anniversary meets of the lndo German Orthopedic Foundation, India. On analysis of single levelstabilization in grade 1 and grade 2 spondylolisthesis (SPINE)
ASSI (Association of spine surgeons of India) Traveling SpineFellowship2005
Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic AssociationTraveling Spine Fellowship 2006
Best Publication in Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association Journal 2010 - Morphometric evaluation of the CervicalSpine Pedicle in our Population
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