Dr. Ashok Rajgopal
Experience: Over 50 years
Medanta – The Medicity
Gurugram, India
Introduction
Dr. Ashok Rajgopal is Group Chairman of Medanta Institute of Musculoskeletal Disorders and Orthopaedics. He operates on destroyed knees and hips needing replacement, failed old implants requiring revision, and sports injuries needing arthroscopic repair. He handles first-time knee replacements to the most complicated revision reconstructions in the country.
About Dr. Ashok Rajgopal
Dr. Ashok Rajgopal has experience of fifty years in orthopaedics. He did over thirty-nine thousand total knee replacements and more than sixty thousand arthroscopic surgeries. Once did twenty-eight knee replacements in under twelve hours. Those numbers don’t need explanation. They speak on their own.
He did pretty much every first that Indian knee surgery has seen — first bilateral total knee replacement in the country, first minimally invasive joint replacement, first virtual knee replacement using patient-specific instruments. Actually sat on the international design team that built the PERSONA knee system with Zimmer, which is used globally now. Previously worked at Fortis Memorial Research Institute and Sitaram Bhartia Institute. Founded the Asia Pacific Arthroplasty Society and served as its President.
Qualifications
- MBBS — Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.
- MS (Orthopaedics) — AIIMS, New Delhi.
- MCh (Orthopaedics) — University of Liverpool, UK.
- FRCS — Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
- FIMSA — International Medical Sciences Academy.
Awards & Recognition
- Padma Shri (2014).
- Dr. B.C. Roy National Award (2014).
- Honorary Orthopaedic Surgeon to the President of India (1997).
- Over 39,000 knee replacements and 60,000 arthroscopies.
- Designer of the PERSONA knee system with Zimmer.
- Multiple firsts in Indian knee surgery.
- Founder and past President Asia Pacific Arthroplasty Society.
Specialities & Expertise
- Total knee replacement, including bilateral
- Minimally invasive joint replacement
- Complex revision knee and hip surgery
- Robotic and patient-specific knee replacement
- Arthroscopic knee surgery
- Cementless implant technology
Patient Experience & Approach
Patients say Dr. Ashok Rajgopal looks at the knee and knows exactly what it needs within minutes because fifty years of doing this gives you instincts no textbook can teach. People who got bilateral replacement in one sitting mention they dreaded two separate surgeries, and he sorted both knees together. His involvement in actually designing the implant means he understands every millimeter of the hardware he’s putting inside your body, which is a level of knowledge most surgeons simply don’t have.
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