Profile and Area of Expertise
Dr. Jyotheswara Reddy Gurijala is an orthopaedic spine surgeon who is well-trained and experienced. He worked in various institutions across South India. He was trained extensively at the Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore; one of the world’s most famous institutes for spine surgery. He has an extensive expertise treating lumbar disc prolapse, lumbar canal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, cervical spondylosis, cervical disc prolapse, compressive myelopathy, and spinal infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and nontuberculous infections.
He has a wide experience in treating spinal deformities such as scoliosis and kyphosis, management of fractures of the spine with paraplegia and quadriplegia and osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, minimally invasive spine surgeries and non-surgical modalities like selective nerve root block and epidural steroid injections, management of all major trauma cases, management of poly trauma, and other orthopedic conditions.
Dr. Jyotheswara Reddy has also participated in various research and academic activities and published his research work in various national and international journals.
Experience (Current Position & Previous Positions)
Current Position:
- Consultant Orthopedic spine surgeon-Pace hospitals Hitech city Hyderabad, from August 2021 till date
Previous Positions:
- Fellow In Spine Surgery – Ganga Hospital Coimbatore
- Post doctoral fellowship in spine surgery under Professor S Rajasekaran Ganga Hospital Coimbatore, one of the most reputed spine centres in ASIA , affiliated to MGR university Tamilnadu July 2019 to July 2021
- Senior Registrar Spine Surgery -Bone And Joint Care, Meitra Hospital Calicut
- Worked as senior registrar in trauma and spine surgery unit under Dr. George Abraham – June 2017 to June 2019
- Consultant Orthopeadic Surgeon – Co-Operative Hospital Vadakara,Kozhikode , Kerala-December 2015-January 2017
Education & Certificates
- Post Doctoral Fellowship In Spine Surgery Mgr University Tamilnadu Ganga hospital Coimbatore July 2019 -July 2021
- DNB – Orthopaedic Surgery Malabar institute of medical sciences, ( Aster MIMS)Calicut, Kerala
National board of examinations New Delhi – October 2012-October 2015 - MBBS – Narayana medical college, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, DR NTR University of health sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh – 2004-2009
- Internship: Narayana Medical college hospital, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh 2009-2010
Awards
- Update Coming Soon
Publications & Presentations
Research Works:
- Thoracic myelopathy in ossified ligamentum flavum: Surgical management and long term outcome following 2 different techniques of surgical decompression Published in Global spine journal April 2021
- A validated score for evaluating spinal instability to assess surgical candidacy in active spinal tuberculosis- An evidence-based approach and multinational expert consensus study ( published Global spine journal 2022 )
- Textbook chapter on Cleaning and maintenance of equipment and operation theatre (ASSI operation theatre manual for spine surgery)
- Radiological and functional outcome of medial plate osteosynthesis in comparison with lateral plate osteosynthesis in the treatment of fracture shaft humerus.
Thesis approved by national board of examinations New Delhi
Memberships
- Association spine surgeons of India
- AO Spine member
- SICOT membership
- IOA membership
Languages
- English
