- Bupa Platinum consultant
- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Hand & Wrist
- Shoulder & Elbow
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Mr. Karuppaiah joined as a Consultant in Kings College Hospital, London, in 2014 following completion of his advance training in shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist surgeries. With the experience, he manages a wide range of orthopaedic conditions affecting the shoulder, elbow, hand and wrist. His clinical expertise is comprehensive evaluation and management of sports injuries, arthritis, nerve and tendon problems in the upper limb. He also treats multiple injured patients, at Kings College Hospital, one of the busiest Major Trauma Centres in the UK and also provides tertiary referral service for complex upper-limb injuries.
Mr. Karuppaiah had his orthopaedic training in two of the best institutes in the world, namely Kings’ College Hospital, London and Ganga Hospital, India. He was also trained in various hospitals in southeast London and northeast England. He has completed his master’s degrees in orthopaedics, from the Teesside University, UK and Madras Medical College, India. He is also a member & fellow of Royal College of Surgeons. His master’s degree on Evidence Based Medicine in Orthopaedics fine-tuned his clinical approach to patients to provide with best available and up-to-date evidence-based cutting-edge care.
He regularly lectures both nationally and internationally at leading conferences and training courses and continues to teach the modern orthopedic techniques to trainees. He is intensely involved in teaching and training the trainees from SE Thames Orthopaedic rotation. He is a faculty in Kings FRCS intense revision course, Hand surgery FRCS (Orth) revision course and Medway Upper-limb course and is a clinical and educational supervisor for foundation year and specialty training doctors. He is a keen teacher who teaches orthopaedics to undergraduate students at Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical Schools.
He has a brilliant academic career and has published more than 25 articles in peer reviewed indexed journals. He has special interests in upper-limb research and has won several research accolades both at the national and international levels. His research work is cited by numerous authors, journals and orthopaedic textbooks. He is a member of the editorial board and is also a reviewer of various international scientific orthopaedic journals.
Areas of interest
Clavicle fractures; Humerus fractures; Distal radius fractures / wrist fracture; Scaphoid fractures; Hand fractures; Metacarpal fractures; Elbow fractures; ACJ seperation, rotator cuff injury, impingement syndrome, ACJ arthritis; shoulder dislocation/instability; tennis elbow; Golfers elbow; cubital tunnel syndrome; carpal tunnel syndrome; trigger finger/thumb; Dupuytrens disease; sports injuries; arthritis; fractures and dislocations in upper limb, nerve and tendon problems in the upperlimb
Medical secretaries
- Salma Sami / Sandy
- 5 Devonshire Place London W1G 6HL
- 020 8194 8555
- 020 7022 1606
- karuppaiah.admin@lips.org.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Saju Sharafudeen
Fee Assured
- Dr Andrew Choyce
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- Dr Prashanth Belavadi
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- Dr Mubeen Khan
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- Dr Gary Yap
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- Dr Maria Eugenia D'Andrea
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- Dr Suresh Anandakrishnan
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- Dr Ravi Bhatia
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- Dr Emad S Aziz
Not Fee Assured
- Dr Ravishankar Jakkala Saibaba
Fee Assured
- Dr Massimiliano Guglielmi
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- Dr Amina Shariff
Not Fee Assured
- Dr Zakaulla Belagodu
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- Dr Nicholas C Jones
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- Dr Uttam Bhandari
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- Dr Uvie Brigue
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- Dr Priya Suaris
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- Dr Pradeep R Madhivathanan
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- Dr Christine Sathananthan
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- Dr Toby C Thomas
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- Dr Warwick Marchant
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- Dr Hafis Ayeni
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- Dr Ganeshkrishna Nair
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- Dr Stuart Marshall
Not Fee Assured
- Dr Ravindra Nath Wadhwani
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- Dr Magnus Fraser Dunsire
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- Dr Shibaji Saha
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Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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T6450
Tenodesis of biceps tendon (as sole procedure) - (5-50)
London Bridge Hospital (5-50) Blackheath Hospital (The) (1-5)
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W9040
Injection(s) +/- aspiration, into joint, cyst, bursa - unilateral - (5-50)
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W7872
Arthroscopic arthrolysis of shoulder contracture +/- manipulation/injection - (5-50)
London Bridge Hospital (5-50) Chelsfield Park Hospital (1-5) Blackheath Hospital (The) (1-5)
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W7718
Primary arthroscopic shoulder stabilisation procedure (including labral/SLAP/tendon repair) - (5-50)
London Bridge Hospital (5-50) Blackheath Hospital (The) (1-5)
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W9030
Injection(s) +/- aspiration, into joint, cyst, bursa with image guidance - unilateral - (5-50)
Chelsfield Park Hospital (5-50) London Bridge Hospital (1-5)
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