Dr. Prashanth Nagaraj
Lead Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr. Prashanth Nagaraj is an orthopaedic surgeon with experience across the NHS and tertiary orthopaedic centres in India. His clinical focus spans lower-limb arthroplasty, foot and ankle reconstruction, deformity correction, complex trauma, sports injuries, diabetic foot management and complex limb salvage.
About Dr. Prashanth Nagaraj
Dr. Prashanth Nagaraj is an orthopaedic surgeon with training and clinical experience across the NHS in the United Kingdom and tertiary orthopaedic centres in India. He holds FRCS (Tr & Orth) and MRCS (Ed) from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, alongside MBBS and MS (Orthopaedics) from India. His clinical practice covers lower-limb arthroplasty, deformity correction and limb reconstruction, foot and ankle surgery, complex trauma, and diabetic foot management. He has held academic and consultant roles including Assistant Professor at M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bengaluru, Consultant Orthopaedics and Limb Reconstruction Surgeon at SPARSH Hospitals, Bengaluru, and Specialist Registrar and Senior Clinical Fellow positions within the NHS in the United Kingdom.
Areas of Expertise
- Trauma
- Arthroplasty
- Limb Reconstruction Surgery (Adult and Paediatric)
- Foot and Ankle Surgery
- Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine
- Spine
- Musculoskeletal Tumours
Clinical Expertise
- Surgical management of hip fractures in young and elderly patients
- Primary and revision knee arthroplasty
- Primary and revision hip arthroplasty
- Surgical management of complex diaphyseal and periarticular fractures
- Limb lengthening and deformity correction using Ilizarov principles
- Diabetic foot – operative and non-operative management
- Ankle arthroscopy and arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis
- Diagnostic and therapeutic arthroscopy of the knee and ankle
- Arthroscopic ACL reconstruction
- Management of delayed union and nonunion
Conditions Managed
- Hip fractures
- Complex diaphyseal and periarticular fractures
- CTEV (clubfoot) – paediatric and adult neglected
- Diabetic foot
- Flat foot
- Plantar fasciitis
- Bunions
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Delayed union and nonunion
- Septic arthritis sequelae
Procedures & Treatments
- Primary and revision knee arthroplasty
- Primary and revision hip arthroplasty
- Ilizarov external fixation for limb lengthening and deformity correction
- Ankle arthroscopy
- Arthroscopic ACL reconstruction
- Calcaneal fracture fixation
- Bunion correction
- Tendon transfer procedures
- Fasciotomy for compartment syndrome
- Amputation and reconstructive surgery