Dr Vidyadhara S Spine Surgeon Manipal hospital Bangalore

31/10/2025

🌟 Precision. Safety. Transformation.

In children with massive scoliosis, we can now achieve excellent correction and balance without major osteotomies — thanks to robotic-assisted spine surgery and precise cobalt-chrome instrumentation.

Over the past two years of our robotic program, we’ve rarely needed osteotomies — a big leap forward in making these complex surgeries safer and more efficient.

✅ Less blood loss
✅ Shorter surgery time
✅ Lower risk to lungs and nerves
✅ Better alignment, faster recovery

Robotics is redefining scoliosis correction — one precise move at a time.

19/10/2025

✨ Happy Diwali from Team SpineVidya & MIRSS! ✨

This Festival of Lights reminds us that illumination isn’t just about lamps — it’s about awareness.
Back problems often have many causes, and so must their prevention — through posture, fitness, ergonomics, and mental well-being.

May this Diwali light the way to knowledge, balance, and a healthier spine.
💫 Restore Motion, Regain Life.

21/01/2025

21/01/2025

12/12/2023

Although it’s not truly an achievement but good to know from Medtronic that we achieved this never before feat of performing 50 robotic spine surgeries in the first month of inception of Manipal Institute of Robotic Spine Surgery @ Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, Bangalore, India.

Among the remarkable success stories is a 15-year-old Bangladeshi girl suffering from scoliosis, underwent the first-of-its-kind robotic scoliosis correction surgery in South India

09/12/2023

A 6-years old boy from Oman presented with Juvenile Idiopathic Thoracolumbar Scoliosis of over 50-degrees in 2018. We did unilateral growth rod and reviewed him in 2019 to see that the lowest screw had broken. We revised the screw and distracted.

Child couldn’t come back for annual distractions because of Covid-19 situation and returned only in 2022 when he was 10-years old and the triradiate cartilage was still open. We distracted again and he returned this year with completion of spinal growth.

We did perform growth rod removal and Full Robotic-assisted Thoracolumbar Scoliosis Correction and instrumented fusion successfully. The child walked on the same evening after surgery and was discharged the next day. He was reviewed after a week and sent back home to Oman. It is now over a month of surgery and the child is back to school.

It’s heartening to see a good clinical outcome despite adversities of screw breakage and lack of distraction for 3-years due to Covid situation.

Point to be noted - I do use unilateral growth rods so that we could use the opposite side to bail out in case of failure of growth rods construct and has given reasonable results except for one child wherein I had to revise to bilateral rods after rod breakage twice (however the pre-op kyphoscoliosis in this child was nearly 90-degrees).

I thank God for ending this year with this good clinical outcome and the child benefiting from robotic assisted scoliosis correction surgery for the final stage.

Looking forward to help many more children with spinal deformities from 2024 onwards.

Manipal Hospitals
Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt Ltd
Manipal Academy of Higher Education

01/12/2023

Thank God and thank Manipal Hospitals management for believing in me and my vision for

“Manipal Comprehensive Spine Care Center”

in 2008 when we were the first fully dedicated service for patients with spinal ailments in Bangalore, India and now once again in 2023 after 15+ years for having started the

“Manipal Institute of Robotic Spine Surgery”

for the first time in South India. I am humbled and honoured truly 🙏🙏🙏

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/manipal-hospital_drsvidyadhara-healthcareexcellence-roboticspinesurgery-activity-7136288242445791232-av72?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

01/12/2023

Thank God and thank Manipal Hospitals management for believing in me and my vision for

“Manipal Comprehensive Spine Care Center”

in 2008 when we were the first fully dedicated service for patients with spinal ailments in Bangalore, India and now once again in 2023 after 15+ years for having started the

“Manipal Institute of Robotic Spine Surgery”

for the first time in South India. I am humbled and honoured truly 🙏🙏🙏

20/11/2023

News18 Bangla covering Robotic Spine Surgery @ Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, Bangalore 🙏

https://youtu.be/BLadXo1pPmI?si=nRrqkGCnocK8CX86

Spinevidya
Dr Vidyadhara S Spine Surgeon Manipal hospital Bangalore
Vidyadhara Srinivasa
Vidyadhara Srinivasa
Manipal Hospitals
Manipal Health Enterprises
Manipal Academy of Higher Education

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