Dr. Ashok is an Orthopedic Spine Surgeon with Fellowship training in India, Germany and USA.
He believes in providing comprehensive spine care to patients to make a positive difference to their health and life. His clinical areas of focus include degenerative spine disorders of cervical, thoracic and lumbar
spine, minimally invasive spine surgery, spine trauma & rehabilitation and deformity correction of scoliosis and kyphosis.
Dr. Ashok Reddy Pedaballe
(MBBS, MS - Orthopedics, FASSI)
Consultant (Orthopedic Spine Surgery)
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- MBBS: PES Institute of Medical Sciences
- Postgraduation in Orthopedics: Narayana Medical College
- Senior Residency in Orthopedics: Osmania Medical College
- Consultant Spine Surgeon - Omni Hospitals, Hyderabad
- AO Spine Fellowship: Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore
- Fellowship in Spine Surgery: Klinikum Magdeburg, Germany
- IASA Spine Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Board Certification: AP Medical Council of India (2008), recertified (2014), Delhi Medical Council (2015)
CLINICAL INTERESTS OR FOCUS OF WORK
- Lumbar Micro Discectomy
- Cervical Discectomy & Fusion
- Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery
- Spinal Fractures
- Adult & Pediatric Scoliosis Surgery
- Spinal Cord Injuries & Rehabilitation
AWARDS
- Best Employee of the Year 2017: Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, New Delhi.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Pedaballe AR , Chhabra HS, Tandon V, Chauhan P, Verma R. Acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury in a third-trimester pregnant female with good maternal and fetal outcome: a case report and literature review. Spinal Cord Ser Cases. 2018 Oct 23;4:93. doi: 10.1038/s41394-018-0127-y. eCollection 2018.
- Reddy AP, Mahajan R, Rustagi T, Chhabra HS. Bladder Recovery Patterns in Patients with Complete Cauda Equina Syndrome: A Single-Center Study. Asian Spine J. 2018;12(6):981-986.
- Ashok Reddy Pedaballe, Gopal Krishnaiah Talluri, Ravindranath. A single stage. anterolateral decompression and posterior instrumentation by lateral extracavitary approach for tuberculosis of spine. Proceedings of IOACON 2014, Hyderabad 19 th-22nd November, 2014. Indian J Orthop 2015;49, Suppl S1:1-32
- PSB Sreenivasulu, Ashok Reddy Pedaballe, G Gireesh, Musham Suresh, Ch.Vamsi Krishna. Management of Gustilo – Anderson's grade III b open fractures and infective nonunions tibia with limb reconstruction system. Proceedings of IOACON 2014, Hyderabad 19 th-22nd November, 2014. Indian J Orthop 2015;49, Suppl S1:1-32
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Harvinder Singh Chhabra, Neeraj Gupta, Ashok Reddy Pedaballe. Conservative management in osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures. Association of Spine Surgeons of India monograph series: Osteoporosis (accepted for publication ahead of print)
PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
- Ashok Pedaballe, Chhabra HS. What non-surgeons should know about surgery. Conducted a workshop at ISCoS 2107, Dublin, Ireland.
- A rare case of acute Cervical SCI in 32 weeks pregnant: How we managed it. Podium presentation at ISCos 2017, Dublin, Ireland.
- Atypical presentation of tubercular spondylodiscitis mimicking charcots spine in a chronic SCI patient: A case report, ISSICON 2017, New Delhi
- A rare case of tubercular spondylodiscitis mimicking as Charcots spine. Presented at ISSICON 2017, Delhi.
- A rare case of transdural lumbar disc herniation- podium presentation at Asia Pacific Spine Society. Goa 2017.
- Neglected Cauda equina syndrome: Is there a role of surgical decompression? - podium presentation in ASSICON 2017, Hyderabad, India.
- A case report on Lumbar facetal cyst presenting with cauda Equina Syndrome- podium presentation at ISSICON 2016, Nepal.
- Mini open thoracoscopic assisted thoracotomy spine surgery: Case series and review of literature. podium presentation at DOACON 2016, New Delhi.
- A Single Stage Anterolateral Decompression and Posterior Instrumentation by Lateral Extra cavitary Approach for Tuberculosis Of Spine. – podium presentation in IOACON 2014.
- A rare case of hydatid disease of spinal canal with paraplegia- presented as a poster at IOACON 2014.
- Retrospective analysis of deformity correction surgery in congenital thoracic scoliosis with and without anterior surgery: with special emphasis on crankshaft phenomenon. –poster in OSSAPCON 2014.
- Effect of deformity correction surgery on lung function in patients with thoracic scoliosis with type II respiratory failure: A case series of nine patients – podium presentation in OSSAPCON 2013.
- A case report on Congenital Pseudo–arthrosis Tibia – OSSAPCON 2013.
- Management of peri implant supracondylar fracture femur: A study of 20 cases-Poster presentation in IOACON 2012.
- Role of pelvic incidence in determining the progression of lytic lysthesis- poster presentation OSSAPCON 2012.
- A case report of fracture nonunion femur with bent intramedullary nail in situ – As a poster at OSSAPCON 2012.