Dr Aravind provides ethical, patient-centered, holistic care – delivered with integrity and humility. He brings you surgical skills, diagnostic skills and clinical experience honed in 4 major health systems. He believes in only offering patients treatment that he himself would be willing to take.
Dr Aravind graduated with MBBS qualification from Madras Medical College in Chennai, India. He was awarded a Gold medal in Orthopaedic Surgery during his under-graduation. He then undertook basic surgical training in the UK, gaining MRCS qualifications from the Royal Colleges of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He then entered the highly competitive Orthopaedic resident training Programme in Cardiff, Wales. He completed this with a CCT (Tr & Orth) and a FRCS (Tr & Orth).
Pursuing his goal of further training in Spinal surgery, he then went to Perth, Western Australia for a fellowship in scoliosis surgery and spinal trauma surgery in the Royal Perth Hospital. He returned to UK for a further fellowship in Degenerative spinal surgery and Spinal deformity in the world renowned Spinal Surgery unit in Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham. These experiences burnished his 18 months of experience in the Cardiff Spine unit.
Dr Aravind has been practicing as a Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Surgeon in Singapore since 2014 having worked in Khoo Teck Puat hospital and then in Ng Teng Fong hospital. During this time, his attention to patient care earned him several awards of excellence in clinical care.
He showed keen interest in the teaching of medical students and training of orthopaedic residents. Several publications in spinal surgery were also achieved during this period, culminating in his appointment as Adj Assistant Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery in NUS. He continues to contribute to clinical education as a member of the MMed committee for Orthopaedic Surgery.
Dr Aravind Kumar subscribes to the ethos of holistic patient care. He believes in a stepwise approach to addressing patients’ issues with appropriate investigation and non-operative management. He is trained in the full armamentarium of spinal intervention from injection therapy, nucleoplasty to keyhole spine surgery for slipped discs, spinal stenosis, scoliosis and spinal cancer. Fully involving patients in their spinal condition and empowering them to achieve a healthy spine is his ultimate goal.
He has extensive experience in conditions such as slipped discs, spinal stenosis, spinal cancer, scoliosis, back pain and nerve pain.
He has also successfully managed:
- Prolapsed Intervertebral Discs
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Disc Bulges
- Nerve Root Impingements
- Radiculopathy
- Myelopathy
- Spinal Fractures
Proficient in:
- Keyhole Discectomy
- Spinal Fusion
- Disc Replacement
- Scoliosis Correction
- Spinal Fracture Fixation
- Spinal Cancer Surgery
- Spinal Endoscopy
