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Specialises in

• Hip

• Knee

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Mr Madhu Rao Clinical Director and Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with special interest in Lower Limb Orthopaedic Surgery.
Having qualified in 1991, Mr. Rao undertook his specialist training mainly in South of England including at St George’s Hospital in London. He obtained his Fellowship from Royal College of Surgeons in 1999 and did his FRCS in Trauma and Orthopaedics in 2007. Post qualification he has been to specialist hospitals in Germany, Belgium and USA to gain more training in lower limb arthroplasty.

His main expertise is in primary hip and Knee replacements and complex revision hip and knee replacements. He also specialises in soft tissue injuries around knee and ligament reconstructions of knee. His other special interests are in management of simple and complex trauma of lower limb fractures and periprosthetic fractures (fractures around Hip and Knee replacements). He also has expertise in management of torn abductor muscle around hip after hip replacements.

He is part of On call Orthopaedic consultant team at St Richard’s hospital and manages acute orthopaedic emergencies and fractures.

He lectures nationally and internationally on primary and revision knee arthroplasty, hip abductor (muscles around hip) repair and on management of periprosthetic fractures around hip and knee.

He is involved in teaching of Core surgical trainees, higher Surgical trainees and other junior doctors of London, Kent Sussex and Surrey Deanery, Medical students from Southampton university and Brighton Medical school as well as trainees at Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust.

Areas of interest

Knee surgery; hip surgery; Hip Osteoarthritis; Knee Osteoarthritis; Primary Hip and knee Replacement; Revision Hip and knee replacement; Bilateral Hip Replacement; Imaged Guided Joint Injections; Trochanteric Bursitis, Minimally Invasive Knee Replacement; Abductor muscle repair, Distal and Proximal Femoral replacements; Unicompartmental and Bicompartmental Knee replacement; Patello-Femoral joint replacement; Sports injuries; Knee Arthroscopy; Meniscal repairs; Cartilage Reconstruction; ACL reconstruction; Knee Ligament Injuries and reconstruction; Patella Stabilisation procedures;
Lower limb trauma; Hip fractures; Fractures of Femur, Tibia; Fractures around Knee; Foot & Ankle fractures; Fractures of arm; forearm and wrist; Non-Union of fractures; Bone Grafting; Fractures around hip and Knee replacements; Cheilectomy; Ganglions; Ingrowing Toenail; Morton's Neuroma; Tendon Problems; Tendonitis; Tennis Elbow; Tennis Elbow Release; Ulnar Nerve Entrapment; Tendo - Achilles repair.

Medical secretaries

• Emily Culley
• Goring Hall Hospital Bodiam Avenue Goring-By-Sea Worthing BN12 5AT
• 07889 460924
• emilyculley.medsec@outlook.com

• Sarah Aslett
• Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital Broyle Road Chichester PO19 6WB
• 01243 753035
• 07906 731134
• Sarah.Aslett@nuffieldhealth.com

Anaesthetists worked with

• Mr Madhu Rao has worked with Dr Robert Hill at the following hospitals:

  • Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital (1-5)
  • St Richards Hospital (1-5)

• Mr Madhu Rao has worked with Dr Mark Bentley at the following hospitals:

  • St Richards Hospital (1-5)

• Mr Madhu Rao has worked with Dr Justin Dickens at the following hospitals:

  • Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital (1-5)

• Mr Madhu Rao has worked with Dr Sharon Ann Avery at the following hospitals:

  • Goring Hall Hospital (1-5)

• Mr Madhu Rao has worked with Dr Rajesh Shankar at the following hospitals:

  • Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital (1-5)

• Mr Madhu Rao has worked with Dr Rajeev Jeevananthan at the following hospitals:

  • Goring Hall Hospital (1-5)

• Mr Madhu Rao has worked with Dr Tim Martindale at the following hospitals:

  • Goring Hall Hospital (1-5)
  • St Richards Hospital (1-5)