About Doctor

Dr. S. Karunakaran is an accomplished Spine surgeon with about 20 years of medical practice. Till date, he has successfully performed more than thousand spine surgeries of various type and complexities including scoliosis, cervical spine pathologies, thoracotomies, laparotomy, disc replacement surgeries etc.Dr. Karunakaran is a pioneer in percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy under local anaesthesia for disc prolapse in Tamilnadu and is also the first to have used INSPACE-interspinous implant for lumbar canal stenosis-Key hole spine surgery local anaesthesia. He is aadept at pain management techniques of spine like Foraminal epidural steroid injection, Facetal blocks, Discography.

Special interest:-

• Minimally invasive Spine surgery
• Endoscopic spine surgery
• Stitchless spine surgery
• Safe spine surgery

Dr. Karunakaran is a strong proponent of “Safety first” concept in Spine surgery and also continuously works at refining his skills and techniques to deliver the best outcome for spinal disorders with least surgical intervention.

Memberships:-

• Tamil Nadu Orthopedic Association
• Orthopedic Association of south Indian states
• Association of Spine Surgeons of India
• Asian Academy of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery

Publications:-

• Analysis of Lumbar Spine Stabilization and fusion in Grade I & II Listhesis, IGOF Journal Vol.: 1(2002) 97 – 104.
• Tuberculosis of cervicodorsal Spine, IGOF Journal Vol.: 2(2002) 35 – 39.
• Bilateral Cervical Jumped Facets –Operative management by dorsal approach, Journal of Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association, Vol. 33(2007) 20-28.
• Morphometric study of the Cervical Spine Pedicle in our population- Best Publication 2011 in Journal of Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association, Vol. 36 (2010)
• Retro pharyngeal approach for Upper Cervical Spine lesions published in Journal of Tamil Nadu Orthopaedic Association, Vol.37 (2011)