Dr. Rajagopalan Krishnan

He has special interest in complex spine surgery including manubriosternotomy for upper thoracic anterior instrumentation, jaw splitting craniocervical surgery, total sacrectomy with lumbopelvic reconstruction, skull separation cervical osteotomy, complex revision of failed spine surgery and shape memory metal rod and staple instrumentation systems for spinal deformities.
He has developed his own techniques for erosive Sacral Tarlov cysts and anterior long and short segment instrumented correction for pediatric and adult spinal deformities.
He was appointed in 1999 as full time Consultant Orthopedic Spinal Surgeon at Mid-Cheshire NHS Trust with private practice at BMI South Cheshire Hospital and Spire Stretton Hospital. He set up a spine service from scratch in East and South Cheshire and his practice focused exclusively on spinal surgery.
He trained specialist registrars from the Mersey Rotation, in spine surgery. His practice for well over 15 years has been exclusively spine surgery both in the UK and since his return to Apollo in April 2012.
He treats spinal disorders ranging the gamut from disc and degenerative disorders to spinal deformities, spinal infections, spinal trauma and spinal tumors.
He has accumulated vast experience in spinal surgery, having run a service for 10 years at Mid-Cheshire which dealt with more than 3000 OPD spine patients and he performed over 350 spine surgeries every year as well as a busy private practice in Cheshire, including patients from North Wales.
His surgical experience ranges from simple cervical and lumbar discectomies, to cervical and lumbar disc replacements, vertebrectomies, TESSYS, reconstruction for spinal trauma, spinal tumors and the full spectrum of spinal deformities.
He audits every patient’s outcome and all his patients have to complete international protocols including Oswestry Disability Index, Canadian Neck Disability Index and his own Spinal Deformity Protocol, thereby ensuring full documentation for his patients.
He was invited by Apollo colleagues in 2011 to visit Delhi to do some complex spinal surgery. The patients were turned down at other Delhi hospitals and were extremely complex, of a kind rarely seen in the West as diagnosis and treatment in the NHS is done quite early due to the UK GP referral system. Both the complexity and the gratifying outcomes were life changing moments for him and he decided to return to Delhi in 2012, having turned down a senior consultant position in Singapore.
Professional Memberships
Past member, British Orthopedic Association
Association of Spine Surgeons of India
Delhi Spine Society