Dr. V.A. Senthil Kumar

Dr. V.A. Senthil Kumar

M.S. (ORTHOPEDICS)

Associate Director and Principal Consultant in the Department of Orthopedics & Head of the Orthospine Unit

Dr. V.A. Senthil Kumar is Associate Director and Principal Consultant in the Department of Orthopedics and specialised in Spine Surgery, Skeletal Trauma and Arthroscopy in Max Super Speciality Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Delhi-NCR. He is also the Director & Chief Surgeon of DOSC (Delhi Ortho Spine Centre). He has 23 years of post M.S. experience in the field of Orthopedics.

His special interests are Spine Surgery, Joint Replacements, Arthroscopy and Surgical Management of Complex Skeletal Trauma He is adept and highly skilled in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) of Spine like Microdiscectomy , Percutaneous Fixation of spine , PLIF(Fusion of Spine), Kyphoplasty and Nucleoplasty and Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy (PELD)using small incisions.

Dr. V. A. Senthil Kumar has specially trained in France with none other than Dr. Thierry Marnay, who is the pioneer of Disc Replacement Surgery & the inventor of Prodisc. He also trained with Dr. Edgard De Rosa, an efficient and expert Surgeon in Minimally Invasive Surgery Techniques in spine. Dr. V.A. Senthil Kumar has worked with Dr.Philip Mazeau, who is expert in Pedicle screws long segment Fixation in the spine Scoliosis without C arm guidance and Robot.

Website: http://dosc.in

Pott’s spine L4/5 L5/S1 masquerading as Slipped disc and Sciatica

Tuberculosis infection can affect the bones especially the backbone without involvement of Chest ( Lungs). It is called as Pott’s Spine( TB infection of spine). All age groups are prone to this. It is fully curable, if diagnosed and treated promptly with the right management. A 29 year old young man was suffering from severe radiating pain in Rt leg with weakness in the foot, with Low back pain for 1 month was diagnosed to be TB Spine L4/5/S1 level( Posterior disease) by MRI and timely treatment was done by Decompression of Spine Surgery and by starting of Anti Tubercular Medications.Removing pus compressing the thecal sac and nerve roots and spinal cord ( see photos and video) gave him excellent relief. Moral of the story is that any back pain , not responding to medications and physiotherapy in 3-6 weeks, one should always suspect TB spine and get X rays and MRI done, to detect and treat this common problem at an early stage itself.