- Bupa Platinum consultant
- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Knee
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Mr. Sam Rajaratnam FRCS (Tr. & Orth.) is an internationally renowned Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in knee replacement surgery and sporting injuries of the knee.
Mr Rajaratnam has performed over 5300 knee replacements with excellent outcomes, and is an expert on rapid recovery and lower pain scores following knee surgery. He has one of the lowest revision (failure) rates and best outcomes (PROMS) for knee replacements on the UK National Joint Registry and is an advocate for transparent, outcomes driven healthcare. He is an expert in robotic assisted knee replacement and was first to implement ROSA robotic technology within the UK private sector.
Mr Rajaratnam regularly treats professional and amateur sportspeople with soft tissue injuries to their knee, and performs over 120 ACL reconstructions and other soft tissue procedures each year as day case procedures. He regularly treats members of the Professional Football Association and is on the faculty of the FIFA Football medicine conference each year.
Mr Rajaratnam originally trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital in London and qualified with a First Class degree in anatomy and an MBBS in 1997. He trained via the Royal College of Surgeons, England at numerous centres of excellence in the UK and then Australia. Mr Rajaratnam was awarded the Walter Mercer Gold Medal for the best performance throughout Great Britain and Ireland in the final FRCS Orthopaedics examination in 2006.
He was the British Orthopaedic Association Ambassador to Hong Kong in 2007 and now enjoys an excellent international reputation as a leading knee surgeon and a key opinion leader in his field.
Areas of interest
Knee surgery; Partial and total knee replacement; Complex revision knee replacement; Knee ligament reconstruction; knee cartilage repair; Stem Cell treatments and biological repair of cartilage surface defects; Knee pain; Knee swelling; Knee injury; Meniscus; Meniscal tear; Meniscus Repair; Knee ligament; Knee fracture; ACL; Anterior Cruciate Ligament; Knee Arthroscopy; ACL reconstruction; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction; Revision ACL; Knee Dislocation; Tendon injuries; Knee wear; Knee Arthritis; Knee Osteoarthritis; Knee replacement; HTO; Osteotomy; Knee cap pain; Patellofemoral syndrome; Patellofemoral pain; Knee Ski injury; soft tissue knee
Medical secretaries
- Adele Waterman
- Horder Healthcare The Horder Centre St. Johns Road CROWBOROUGH TN6 1XP
- 01892 602991
- contact@thechelseakneeclinic.com
- Miss Vinnie Kortlang
- Cleveland Clinic 33 Grosvenor Place London SW1X 7HY
- 020 3494 4010
- rajaratnampractice@ccf.org
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Barry Phillips Fee Assured
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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W4210
Total prosthetic replacement of knee joint +/- cement +/- patella resurfacing - unilateral - (>50)
Cleveland Clinic London Hospital (>50) Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre (>50) The Horder Centre (5-50)
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W8500
Multiple arthroscopic operations on knee (including meniscectomy, chondroplasty, drilling or microfracture) - unilateral - (5-50)
Cleveland Clinic London Hospital (5-50) Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre (5-50) The Horder Centre (1-5)
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W7420
Autograft anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction +/- meniscectomy - (5-50)
Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre (5-50) Cleveland Clinic London Hospital (5-50) The Horder Centre (5-50)
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W4200
Complex primary total knee replacement (i.e. including bone graft, augmentation or osteotomy) - (5-50)
Cleveland Clinic London Hospital (5-50) Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre (5-50) The Horder Centre (1-5)
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W4230
Revision of total replacement of knee joint - (5-50)
Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre (5-50) Cleveland Clinic London Hospital (5-50)
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