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Specialises in

• Hip

• Knee

Offers

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

About me

Mr Yadu Shankarappa orthopaedic practise philosophy is based on trying ,as far as possible ,to maintain the patients natural joints and tissues and repair or reconstruct them, with a view to early return to normal function.
Following his Orthopaedic Training and specialisation Mr Shankarappa worked upto the level of Professor in Orthopaedics in a prestigious Medical College, in Bangalore ,India. He then received further training in the UK, Germany and Canada doing advanced Trauma and Orthopaedic Fellowships and Specialisation. Mr Shankarappa was awarded the Khazenifar Gold Medal for the Best Performance in the M.Ch.Ortho., Liverpool Exam. He has worked in the UK since 1989 and as a Consultant in the UK since 1993. He is a full time NHS Consultant.
Mr Shankarappa specialises in lower limb adult orthopaedics.
He performs all types of
Hip replacements - cemented and uncemented.
He performs Total Knee replacements.
Wherever suitable he advocates the Oxford Unicondylar knee replacement (which he has used for fifteen years) which preserves a major part of the natural knee and provides a natural feel to a partially replaced knee.

He advocates the Medial open wedge Knee corrective osteotomy - to correct deformity secondary to arthritis or trauma to preserve the natural joint mechanics.

He also performs:
Knee Arthroscopic surgery and
Meniscal repair
Cruciate ligament reconstruction using single tendon quadrupled hamstring all inside reconstruction.
Knee articular surface damage repair surgery ,including modern techniques of cartilage grafting using the patients own cartilage cells-'Autocart"_,procedure.
He also performs the OATS procedure-Osteochondral Autologous Transfer Surgery to preserve the natural knee and prevent rapid onset of crippling osteoarthritis.He has been performing OATS surgery for 15 years , helping to preserve the patients natural joint and avoid early prosthetic knee joint replacement.

Areas of interest

Lower limb disorders; Hip and Knee arthroplasty-joint replacement;
Minimally invasive and partial joint replacements;
Knee cap pain;
Patella dislocations;
Sports injuries;
Knee ligament reconstruction-ACL reconstruction;
Knee cartilage damage repair and reconstruction; including chondroplasty, mosaicplasty and Osteo-articular transfer surgery-OATS; Knee-corrective osteotomy for deformity from arthritis and trauma; Knee pain;
Patella-instability soft tissue and bony correction;
Sports injuries to the Knee;
Lower limb arthroplasty

Medical secretaries

• Jill Kennedy
• 07966 182130
• info@shankarappaorthopaedic.com

Anaesthetists worked with

• Dr Ravi Shankar Not Fee Assured
• Dr Pallab Rudra Fee Assured
• Dr Peter Knowlden Fee Assured

• Dr Patrik Kontina Fee Assured
• Dr Jose Luis Soriano Bru Fee Assured