Dr Karunakaran S - Appointment Process [Updated 2025]

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About Dr Karunakaran S

Specialty: Spine Surgery(Ortho), Spine And Pain
Affiliated Hospital: Gleneagles Global Health City, Chennai
Designation: Orthopedist, Spine And Pain Specialist
Gender: Male

Doctor’s Profile

Dr Karunakaran S is a 22-year-experienced Consultant Spine Orthopedic Surgeon. Precision Spine Center in Anna Nagar East and Gleneagles Global Hospital in Chennai are where he practices.

He is currently the Director of Gleneagles Global Hospital’s Institute Of Advanced Spine Services in Chennai. He formerly served as the head of the spine unit at Madras Medical College and Chennai’s Government General Hospital. When he began the Department of Spine Surgery, he was also a Consultant at Meenakshi Medical Mission Hospital in Madurai.

Dr Karunakaran S specializes in the treatment of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine diseases. He’s especially interested in the proper application of minimally invasive and motion-sparing procedures. In this section of the country, he is a pioneer in percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy under local anesthetic for disc prolapse (Transforaminal and interlaminar without stitches).

IN SPACE – interspinous implant for lumbar canal stenosis-Key hole spine surgery local anesthetic was the first to be used in South India. He was also a pioneer in spine 3D printing and performed thousands of spine procedures, including scoliosis, cervical spine pathologies, thoracotomies, laparotomies, and disc replacement surgeries.

Dr Karunakaran S completed his interlaminar percutaneous Endoscopic Cervical and Lumbar Spine Surgery training with Dr. Sebastian Ruetten at St.Anna Hospital in Herne, Germany in 2013 and his observership with Dr. Randal Betz at Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2003. In 2003, I worked as an observer in the spine unit at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, USA. In the year 2004, he completed an observership at AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) in New Delhi under Dr.Aravind Jayaswal.

In 2013, he completed Advanced Training in Endoscopic Spine Surgery with Dr. Anthony Yeung in Phoenix, Arizona, where he learned Transforaminal endoscopic lumbar disc surgery, Dorsal Endoscopic Rhizotomy for Chronic Back Pain, and the most up-to-date Percutaneous Fusion techniques under local anesthesia.

Education

MBBS,
MS – Orthopaedics

Language Spoken

English, Hindi, Tamil