Hospital discovery · Spine Surgery
Review 3 validated Spine Surgery hospitals, 6 affiliated spine surgeons and 5 mapped spine procedures in Chennai, India.
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Quick answer
Spine surgery treats selected compression, instability, deformity, trauma and tumour conditions after symptoms, neurological findings and imaging are correlated. The plan must distinguish decompression from fusion, define levels and approach, and compare surgery with non-operative care where appropriate. This Chennai page is limited to hospitals with a listed spine surgeon relationship.
3 validated hospital relationships currently match Spine Surgery in Chennai, including Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, MGM Healthcare, Chennai, Rela Hospital. Counts require a matching hospital specialty and affiliated spine surgeon; they are not rankings or claims about outcomes.
5 spine procedures have validated hospital and doctor relationships in Chennai, including Spinal Fusion, Discectomy, Microdiscectomy, Spinal Deformity Correction, Revision Spine Surgery. Open a procedure page for the exact hospitals and doctors connected to that procedure.
At a glance
Hospital inclusion requires a Spine Surgery relationship and an affiliated spine surgeon. Procedure pages additionally require matching hospital-procedure and doctor-procedure relationships.
Hospitals
Cards use factual campus data and validated relationship counts. Ordering is alphabetical by city and hospital name, not a ranking.
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Chennai, India
JCI Accredited
NABH Accredited
NABL AccreditedGleneagles HealthCity Chennai is listed for Spine Surgery in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 2 affiliated spine surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Spinal Fusion, ACDF (Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion), Discectomy, Microdiscectomy and 6 more.
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH AccreditedNABL AccreditedMGM Healthcare, Chennai is listed for Spine Surgery in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 3 affiliated spine surgeons. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Spinal Fusion, Discectomy, Microdiscectomy, Laminectomy and 4 more.
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH AccreditedNABL AccreditedRela Hospital is listed for Spine Surgery in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 1 affiliated spine surgeon. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Spinal Fusion, Discectomy, Spinal Deformity Correction, Revision Spine Surgery.
This table compares recorded attributes only. It does not score or rank hospitals.
| Hospital | City | Accreditation | Beds | Established | Validated procedures | Listed doctors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL | 1000 | 1999 | 10 | 2 |
| MGM Healthcare, Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL | 400 | 2016 | 8 | 3 |
| Rela Hospital | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL · DHA | 450 | 2018 | 4 | 1 |
Procedures
Cities
Doctors
Each doctor has a matching hospital and Spine Surgery relationship. Procedure pages additionally require that exact doctor-procedure mapping.
Director and Senior Consultant
Dr. Karunakaran S is Director and Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 25 years of experience across spine surgery and orthopedics. His list is degenerative and reconstructive spine work. He pe…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Vijayaraghavan G is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 22 years of experience across spine surgery and orthopedics. His list is weighted toward degenerative lumbar work and revision sur…
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HOD & Senior Consultant
Dr. Phani Kiran S is HOD & Senior Consultant at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai in Chennai, India. He has practised spine surgery in India for 20+ years experience. Fusion versus motion-preservation, ACDF versus disc repl…
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Consultant, Department of Advanced Spine Surgery
Dr. Balaji Bashyam is Consultant, Department of Advanced Spine Surgery at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, India. He has practised spine surgery in India for 15+ years experience. Fusion versus motion-preservation, ACDF versu…
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Spine Surgeon
Dr. M D S Sasidharan is a Spine Surgeon at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 13 years of experience in spine surgery. His list is wide for his years in practice. It covers endoscopic spine surgery, spinal fu…
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Senior Consultant – Orthopaedics and Head of Spine Surgery
Dr. Parthasarathy Srinivasan is Senior Consultant in Orthopaedics and Head of Spine Surgery at Rela Hospital, Chennai, with more than 10 years of experience. His profile records spine surgery together with orthopedics.…
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City context
Chennai has spine-surgery listings in the wider GAF directory, but this article does not infer that every listed institution performs spinal fusion. Only dynamically resolved procedure relationships should produce clinician or hospital cards, and a card is not a ranking, volume statement or capability guarantee.
Chennai has spine-surgery listings in the wider GAF directory, but this article does not infer that every listed institution performs PLIF. Only dynamically resolved procedure relationships should produce clinician or hospital cards, and a card is not a ranking, volume statement or capability guarantee.
Clinician and hospital cards for Chennai appear only when live directory relationships currently tag Spinal Fusion. An empty section is a catalog fact, not a hidden ranking. Neighbouring procedure tags must not be reused, and placement is not a volume, navigation, robotic-capability or outcome claim.
Confirm the actual operating campus, implant or cage plan, neuromonitoring, venous-thromboembolism prevention, inpatient physiotherapy and the first post-discharge review in writing. A general spine or accreditation label does not answer those case-specific questions.
Send MRI or CT files, neurological notes and current walking or sitting tolerance before booking travel to Chennai.
Arrive with enough time for spine, anaesthetic and physiotherapy review; Patients using Gulf or South-Asian air links should still preserve time for repeat MRI or CT, anaesthetic assessment and a rest interval before any planned spine list.
Chennai International Airport: Airport access can be comparatively direct for several hospital districts, but lodging should still follow the named campus. Heat and humidity affect collar comfort, dressings and outdoor walking tolerance. Indoor physiotherapy and wound checks should be planned rather than assumed as beach-hotel walks. A shorter airport road is not a shorter fusion or decompression pathway.
Arrive with enough time for spine, anaesthetic and physiotherapy review; Patients using Gulf or South-Asian air links should still preserve time for repeat MRI or CT, anaesthetic assessment and a rest interval before any planned spine list.
Treatment guides
Spinal fusion joins selected vertebrae so that a painful or unstable motion segment can heal as one bone, usually with screws, rods and a bone graft or cage. The surgeon prepares the disc space or posterior elements, places instrumentation and graft, and decompresses nerves if that work is part of the same sitting.
Discectomy removes the herniated disc fragment that is compressing a nerve root so that leg or arm pain from that root may ease, without fusing the segment. Through a posterior lumbar window the surgeon retracts the root, removes the offending fragment and inspects the canal. Fusion is not part of this product unless written.
Microdiscectomy uses a microscope or high magnification through a smaller window to remove the lumbar fragment that is pinching a nerve root. A small posterior incision and a microscope allow the surgeon to retract the root and remove the fragment while preserving as much stable disc as possible.
Spinal deformity correction addresses kyphosis, sagittal imbalance or a complex curve that is not only a typical scoliotic bend, often with osteotomies, long instrumentation and fusion. The surgeon places anchors, performs the planned osteotomy, corrects alignment under neuromonitoring, and grafts a long fusion.
Revision spine surgery re-operates on a previously treated segment to address failed fusion, loose or broken implants, recurrent compression, infection or adjacent-segment problems. Scarred corridors are reopened, implants are removed or extended, and the new construct matches the failure mode. Scope ranges from a single screw to a long deformity revision.
Cost guides
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
$8,000–$18,000 indicative planning range
$3,500–$8,000 indicative planning range
$3,000–$7,500 indicative planning range
$14,000–$32,000 indicative planning range
$12,000–$26,000 indicative planning range
India planning ranges are not city tariffs, hospital quotations or patient-specific prices. A named hospital must confirm the written estimate.
Conditions
Conditions appear only when the controlled specialty profile or canonical procedure content records the relationship.
The appropriate spine procedure depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate spine procedure depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate spine procedure depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
The appropriate spine procedure depends on the confirmed diagnosis, severity, patient factors and whether it will change treatment or function.
Questions
3 hospitals currently meet the validated specialty and affiliated-doctor rules shown on this page.
5 controlled spine procedures currently have both hospital and doctor relationship evidence in Chennai.
6 listed spine surgeons are affiliated with the validated hospitals on this page.
Compare factual details such as city, accreditation, beds, established year, validated procedures and affiliated doctors. GAF does not assign an overall score or clinical ranking.
Use linked GAF cost guides as indicative India planning ranges. Technique, fractions, planning, imaging, admission and patient-specific requirements must be confirmed in a written hospital quotation.
Dr. Shabnam Choudhary, BDS, is a dental professional who graduated from Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka. She contributes to the curation and development of medically informative healthcare content, helping ensure that information is structured clearly and presented in a patient-friendly manner.
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Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru
Dr. Saffiyyah Chaudhary, BDS, is a dental professional who graduated from Al-Ameen Medical College, Bijapur, Karnataka. She provides medical review of healthcare content to help ensure that clinical information is accurate, understandable, and appropriately presented for patients and their families.
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