Best Spine Surgeons & Specialists in MGM Healthcare, Chennai, India

Dr. Govindaraj is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon in India with 43+ years of experience. He specializes in performing hip and shoulder replacements, double knee replacements, and joint replacement surgeries. 

Dr. Govindaraj has performed over 10,000 surgeries, including 3,000+ joint replacement surgeries. He also holds expertise in pediatric orthopedic surgery.

• Dr. S. Karunakaran is a well-known Spine Surgeon with an experience of 25 years.
• He is prolific in the treatment of spinal disorders of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. 
• His treatment involves the appropriate use of minimally invasive and motion-sparing techniques.
• He is the first one to carry out percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy under local anesthesia for disc prolapse in this part of the country (Transforaminal and interlaminar without stitches).
• He is the first surgeon to use IN SPACE - interspinous implant for lumbar canal stenosis (key hole spine surgery local anesthesia).
• He also initiated the 3D printed spinal implant and performed more than a thousand spine surgeries including scoliosis, cervical spine pathologies, thoracotomies, laparotomy, and disc replacement surgeries.
• He has received the prestigious Mohandas Weller Gold Medal and Fellowship Award, Indo German Orthopedic Foundation, India in 2017, Best Publication award in Tamil Nadu Orthopedic Association Journal (2010) for Morphometric evaluation of the Cervical Spine Pedicle in our Population, Tamil Nadu Orthopedic Association Traveling Spine Fellowship award in 2006 and ASSI (Association of spine surgeons of India) Traveling Spine Fellowship award in 2005. 
• He is the member of the Indian Medical Association (IMA); Tamil Nadu Orthopedic Association; Orthopedic Association of South Indian States (OASIS); Association of Spine Surgeons of India (ASSI); and Asian Academy of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery.
• He passed MBBS from Rajah Muthiah Dental College Hospital, Annamalai University in 1994 MS in Orthopedics from Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai in 2000; and DNB in Orthopedics/Orthopedic Surgery from Medical Council of India in 2001.
• Dr. Karunakaran has attended training on Interlaminar Percutaneous Endoscopic Cervical and Lumbar Spine Surgery with Dr. Sebastian Ruetten, at St. Anna Hospital, Herne, Germany in 2012. He also attended advanced training for Endoscopic Spine Surgery under Dr.Antony Yeung, Phoenix, USA in 2012.

• Dr. Vijayaraghavan G is an orthopedics and spine surgeon with 10+ years of experience.
• His areas of expertise include spine deformity correction surgeries, minimally invasive spine surgery (keyhole surgery) like Microscopic Tubular Discectomy, Decompression and Fusion surgeries.
• He completed MBBS from Madras Medical College, Chennai, MS in Orthopedics from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and DNB in Orthopedics from the National Board of Examinations, New Delhi.
• He is a member of the Association of Spine Surgeons of India, AO Spine Society and Asia Pacific Spine Society.
• He has been awarded spine fellowships from National University Hospitals, Singapore, AIIMS, New Delhi, APSS Spine Depuy Synthes Korea, Japan and China, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA and from Bombay Hospital, Mumbai.
• He won Best Paper Presentation Gold Medal Award, Silver Medal Best Paper Award and Best Paper Presentation at Singapore Spine Society (SSS) Annual Meeting.