Slip disc is the most common spinal disease & Primus will be providing Endoscopic Surgery for Slip Disc without any major anesthesia.
The patient stays awake during the procedure and does not feel pain.
The slipped disc is removed through a 6 mm hole in the back using an endoscope.
Primus is the first fully equipped centre to deliver this service in North India.
Primus is the only centre in the country to provide Endoscopic surgery for Cervical slip disc patients.
Microscopic surgery for slip disc and Lumbar Canal Stenosis.
Lumbar Spinal Fusion.
Artificial Disc Replacement.
Cervical Microsurgery.
Scoliosis Correction.
Spinal Fracture Stabilization.
The Spine Services Department at Primus Super Speciality Hospital is running one of the best spine care programs in the country and is manned by a team of dedicated spine doctors whose only interest is to provide state of the art spine services to the patients. All the doctors have had long-term fellowship training in Spine Care. The hospital and the department have the best of equipments, infrastructure and services to diagnose, treat and rehabilitate spine patients.
The Spine doctors at Primus utilize a wide range of minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures like nerve root injections, facet joint blocks, epidural injections and various other CT guided procedures to identify the exact source of pain in a spine patient so that subsequent definitive method of treatment has the best possible chance of giving a long-term cure to the patient. The spine team at Primus specializes in technically advanced surgeries like Keyhole Endoscopic Slip Disc Surgery under Local Anesthesia for patients suffering from slip disc in the lumbar and cervical spine. The benefit of these techniques lies in enhanced safety and quicker recovery time. In fact PSSH is one of the very few centres in the country providing these services. In addition, the spine team at Primus also carries out other minimally invasive spine procedures like keyhole vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty for spinal fractures, minimally invasive spinal fusion, percutaneous pedicle screw fixation, microscopic discectomy, and microscopic decompression of lumbar canal stenosis. Apart from these minimally invasive procedures, the other routine major surgeries of spine like treatment of cervical and dorsal myelopathy, spinal deformity (Scoliosis and Kyphosis) correction, spinal tumour surgery, treatment of spinal fractures and artificial disc replacement are routinely done at Primus hospital with outcomes that are at par with the best in the world.
Despite a rich experience and skills to perform advanced spinal surgeries, the guiding principle of spine care at Primus hospital is to first allow a chance for natural healing of the disease. In this approach, the spine services team is well complimented by an excellent physical therapy and rehabilitation department. The rehabilitation department is guided by the exact diagnosis of the problem by the spine team and then they use various conservative treatment methods to facilitate a natural recovery of the patient. This approach has helped thousands of patients get rid of their spine problems and generated a great amount of confidence among the suffering patients about the honest and sincere approach of the doctors.
All the doctors at Primus Spine team are highly qualified, kind, caring and considerate. They carefully listen to the patient’s problems, give sufficient time for outpatient consultations and then try to explain as best to the patients about their problems and various treatment options.The Primus Spine Team is led by Dr Arun Bhanot (Chief of Spine Services) and consists of Dr Sandeep Singh (Senior Consultant) and Dr Nipun Bajaj (Consultant). Ms. Priyanka is the spine coordinator who facilitates the smooth running of department affairs.
Dr Bhanot did his medical education from one of the oldest medical colleges in India. Subsequently, pursuing his interest in spinal surgery, he worked at Govt. Medical College, Chandigarh and trained for three years under the able guidance of Prof. Raj Bahadur who is one of the leading spinal surgeons of the country. He further honed his skills in spinal surgery by doing a long-term fellowship in minimally invasive spinal surgery from Wooridul Spine Hospital, Seoul, South Korea and a short-term observorship at Desert Spine Institute, Phoenix, USA. Wooridul is the world’s biggest spine hospital and performs more than 10,000 spinal procedures per year. After learning the most advanced techniques in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery like Keyhole Endoscopic Slip Disc Surgery under Local Anesthesia, he moved back to India and started his clinical work at New Delhi. At present, he is working as chief of spine services at Primus Super Specialty Hospital.
Dr Bhanot has a personal experience of performing more than 1000 spinal procedures and more than 240 endoscopic and minimally invasive spinal procedures under local anesthesia.
He has pioneered Keyhole Cervical Endoscopic Disc Surgery under Local Anesthesia in India. In addition, he is one of the leading surgeons in India to perform keyhole endoscopic lumbar slip disc surgery and has also pioneered the technique of keyhole spinal fusion for failed spinal surgery cases. His work on this subject has been acclaimed at international level and he is invited faculty at several national and international conferences. His work has also been published in leading international spine journals and he has contributed to textbooks on minimally invasive and endoscopic spine surgeries.
Dr. Sandeep Singh did his MBBS from the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi. He did his MS in Orthopedics and 3 years senior residency from the University College of Medical Sciences & associated GTB hospital, Delhi. Later, he went on to do a one year clinical fellowship in Adult Spine Surgery from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Before joining Primus Hospital, Dr. Sandeep Singh was heading the dept. of Orthopaedics at Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital, Malviya Nagar, Govt. of Delhi.
Dr. Singh has more than 10 years experience in the field of Orthopedics and Spine Surgery. He is also the editorial board member of the Indian Journal of Orthopaedics and recipient of the Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Memorial Award 2008. He has more than 15 international publications and has presented numerous papers in various international and national conferences.
Dr Bajaj is a graduate of Govt. Medical College, Amritsar. He obtained his postgraduate training in Orthopedics from Tata Motors Hospital, Jamshedpur and was awarded Diplomate of National Board in Orthopedics by National Board of Examinations, New Delhi. He was selected for the prestigious 2 year Fellowship in Spine Surgery course conducted by National Board of Examinations. Dr. Bajaj completed his training in Spine surgery at Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore. His dissertation on Lumbar Disc Prolapse won Gold medal for best ‘Clinical Research’ at ASSICON 2010 (annual meeting of Association of Spine Surgeons of India). He is experienced in handling all kinds of Spine disorders ranging from disc prolapse, infections, fractures, tumors to deformities of spine in children and adults.