Mr Senthil Kumar Velayudham

Mr Velayudham was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in 2006. He practices exclusively in hip surgery specialising in treating hip arthritis, Young adult hip problems, and failed hip replacement. He also specialises in sports hip injury, chronic tendon injury and avascular necrosis of hip. Mr Velayudham believes every patient is unique with their hip problems and treatment has to be tailored to their needs. He strives to provide the best possible patient-centric care by involving patients in decision making, tailoring treatment to needs, prioritising safety and continuing to perfect his knowledge and skills. He is supported by multidisciplinary teams who share the same values and who are committed to clinical excellence. The National Joint Registry (NJR) collects information on hip replacement surgery and monitors the performance of joint replacement implants, hospitals and surgeons. The NJR report shows Mr Velayudham performs over 500 minimally invasive hip replacement annually and has performed more than 6000 hip replacements so far. His patients’ overall satisfaction score (Patient Reported Outcome and Oxford hip scores) is very high and revision rate is very low compared to the national average. He practices evidence-based medicine and uses safe and highly successful latest techniques in minimally invasive hip replacement (his default technique), complex hip replacement, revision hip replacement and hip arthroscopy for hip impingement and other hip pathology. He believes resurfacing hip replacement is successful in selected group of patients and continues to offer the service. He also performs Robotic or computer assisted hip replacement Having qualified in 1990 from University of Chennai and completed a post graduate degree course in Trauma and Orthopaedics from University of Pune in India, Mr Velayudham pursued further specialist surgical training in trauma and orthopaedics on the Southeast Thames training programme in the UK. He completed his fellowship in pelvic and acetabular reconstructive surgery at St George’s Hospital, London and hip reconstructive surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Middlesex. Having published and presented scientific studies and won regional awards, he is actively involved in teaching and research projects including audits. His research interests include proximal femur bone remodelling around hip prostheses, optimal prostheses alignment in hip replacement, computer assisted hip replacement and reconstruction for acetabular defects. He is committed to training younger generation of doctors. He was the chair of Clinical Governance in his trust for 10 years, and remains committed to patient safety, infection control and excellence in clinical governance matters. He currently chairs the Complex Hip and Knee meeting and is the Venous Thromboembolism lead in his NHS trust.

Minimally invasive hip replacement, Resurfacing hip replacement, Complex hip replacement, Revision hip replacement, Pelvic and Acetabular reconstruction, Hip arthroscopy, Hip impingement, Robotic hip replacement, Management of painful hip replacement, Young adult hip problems.