Module Coordinators
Professional Module
Module 1: Basic Sciences
Submodules
- Anatomy - Dr. Rupinder Chahal
- Physical Examination of Cervical Spine - Dr. Ramesh Kumar
- Examination of Back Pain - Dr. Subir Jhaveri
- Radiologic imaging of the spine - Dr. Kshitij Chaudhary
- Diagnostic Evaluation - Dr. Kamran Farooque
- General Considerations for Spine Surgery including Consent and Preparation, General Surgical Principles, Informed Consent, patient positioning for surgery, equipments and post-op considerations - Dr Shailesh Hadgaonkar
- Surgical Approaches – Dr. Gautam Zaveri
- Cervical and Cervico-thoracic instrumentation - Dr. Samir Dalvie
- Lumbo-sacral instrumentation – Dr. Thomas Kishen
- Bone Graft and Bone substitute – Dr. Pankaj Kandwal
- Neurological Monitoring in Spine Surgery – Dr. Hitesh Modi
Module 2: Degenerative Disorders of Cervical Spine
Submodules
- Cervical Disc herniation and radiculopathy - Dr. Ranjith Unnikrishan
- Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy – Dr. Abrar Ahmad
Module 3: Degenerative Disorders of the Thoraco-Lumbar Spine
Submodules
- Thoracic disc herniation - Dr. Bharat Dave
- Lumbar stenosis – Dr. Ajoy Shetty
- Degenerative Disc Disease with and without facet arthropathy - Dr. Raghavendra S
Module 4: Deformities in Adults and spondylolisthesis
Submodules
- Lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis – DDr Gaurav Dhakal and Dr Prem Shahi
- Adult Spondylolysis and Isthmic spondylolisthesis – Dr Gaurav Dhakal and Dr Prem Shah
- Adult degenerative scoliosis – Dr. Abhay Nene
Module 5: Deformities and Malformation in Children and Adolescents
Submodules
- Scoliosis - Dr Gurudip Das/ Dr Priyank Patel
- Paediatric Kyphosis – Dr. Bhavuk garg
- Congenital – Dr. Saumyajit Basu, Dr Tarun Suri, Dr Amitava B, Dr Naveen Agarwal
- Spondylolysis and Isthmic Spondylolisthesis – Dr Amitava Biswas
Module 6: Spinal Trauma and Fractures
Submodules
- Spine Trauma: Occipetal and Upper Cervical Spine – Dr. Rajkumar Deshpande
- Spine Trauma: Subaxial Cervical Spine – Dr. Gautam zaveri
- Thoraco-Lumbar Spine – Dr. K Venkatesh
- Lower-Lumbar Spine – Dr. B Mohapatra
- Sacral Spine – Dr. Manish Chaddha
- Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Epidemiology, evaluation and management – Dr Vyom Sharma / Dr Aju Bosco
Module 7: Spinal Tumours
Submodules
- Primary Spine Tumors – Dr. Rohan Gala
- Metastatic Spine Tumors – Dr Phani Kiran/ Dr Sudhir Ganesan
- Intra-dural Spinal Cord Tumors – Dr Satyakam Baruah
Module 8: Infection, Inflammation and Metabolic Disease
Submodules
- Primary Spine Infections – Dr. Anil Jain
- Rheumatoid Arthritis – Dr Anil Solanki/Dr Kushal Gohil
- Ankylosing Spondylitis – Dr Shah Waliullah / Dr Varun Agarwal
- DISH – Dr. BN Upendra(said no)
- Osteoporosis and Aging Spine – Dr. Abhay Nene / Dr. Neeraj / Dr. Aju/Dr. Siddharth
Module 9: Complications and Revisions
Submodules
- Post-operative Spinal Infections – Dr. Shankar Acharya
- Management of Dural Tears – Dr. Satish rudrappa
- Neurological Injury – Dr Pankaj Kandwal/Dr Sandeep Kesharwani
- Pseudoarthrosis - Dr Aditya Banta/ Dr Vignesh Pushparaj
- Medical Complications – Dr. Sumit Sural
- Post-operative Spinal Infections – Dr. Shankar Acharya
- Management of Dural Tears – Dr. Satish rudrappa
- Neurological Injury – Dr Pankaj Kandwal/Dr Sandeep Kesharwani
- Pseudoarthrosis - Dr Aditya Banta/ Dr Vignesh Pushparaj
- Medical Complications – Dr. Sumit Sural
Module 10: Surgical steps and Video Library
Submodules
ASSI live surgery videos – Dr. HS Chhabra
Consumer modules for ASSI
1. Know your spine
1(A) Cervical
Co-ordiantor – Dr. Alok Ranjan
1(B) Thoracic-
Co-coordinator – Dr. Amit Jhala
1(C) Lumbar
Co-ordinator – Dr. Rushama Tanodn
1(D) Sacral
Co-ordiantor – Dr. Bipin walia
1(E) Muscles
Co-ordinator – Dr. KV Menon
1(F) Ligaments
Co-ordiantor – Dr. R Sivakumar
1(G) Discs
Co-ordiantor – Dr.Thomas kisen
2. Common Ailments related to Spine – back pain, leg pain, neck pain
2(A) Back pain 2A.1 Spinal Causes - Dr. Sahil Batra
- Degenerative disc disease
- Sacroiliac joint pain
- Facet arthritis, facet joint syndrome
- Herniated lumbar disc
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Spinal stenosis
- Spinal fractures
- Spinal deformity, scoliosis
- Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
- Spinal Infections
2A. 2 Non Spinal Causes - Dr. Roop Singh
- Visceral causes of back pain
- Bursitis
- Piriformis syndroms
- Spasticity
- Fibromyalgia
- Degenerative Joint Disease
- Posture
- Limb Length Discrepancy
- Obesity
- Mood disorders
- Secondary Gain
2(B) Leg pain (sciatica) - Dr. Saumyajit Basu
- 2(B) 1. Spinal Causes
- 2(B) 2. Non Spinal Causes
2(C) Neck pain
2(C) 1 Spinal Causes - Dr Jitesh Mangwani
- Degenerative disc disease
- Facet arthritis, facet joint syndrome
- Herniated cervical disc
- Spinal fractures
- Spinal deformity
- Spinal stenosis
- Spinal Infection
2(C) 2 Non Spinal Causes - Dr. Shumayou Dutta
- Spasticity
- Fibromyalgia
- Posture
- Mood disorders
- Secondary Gain
3. Prevention & general health – Dr. Ashok Johari
4. Non-surgical treatments
- 4(A) Braces and orthotics – Dr. Bhavuk Garg
- 4(B) Pain intervention - Dr Sachin Sharma
- 4(C) Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) – Dr. S.L. Yadav/Dr. Arnab Sinha
- 4(D) Physical Therapy – Dr. Dhruvin Patel/Dr. Ajay Krishnan
- 4(E) Self care for neck & back pain – Dr. Soma Shekar
- 4(F) Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) – Dr S.L. Yadav
5. Know your ‘healers’
- 5(A) Orthopaedic Surgeons – Dr Aaditya Kashikar
- 5(B) Spine Surgeons – Dr KSK Chaitanya/ Dr BT Kiran
- 5(C) Neuro Surgeons - Dr. GR Vijay Kumar
- 5(D) Pain Physicians – Dr Vivek Loomba
- 5(E) Physiatrists - Dr Karthikeyan R
- 5(F) Physiotherapists – Dr. Ankit Sharma
- 5(G) Occupational Therapist– Dr. Sunpreet /Dr. Gouree
6. Pain procedures
- 6(A) Epidural steroid injection (ESI) – Dr. S.K. Srivastava
- 6(B) Joint injections – Dr. Susmit Naskar
- 6(C) Nerve block injection test – Dr. Janardana Aithala
- 6(D) Sympathetic nerve block – Dr Vivek Loomba
- 6(E) Nerve radiofrequency ablation – Dr Vivek Loomba
- 6(F) Chronic Pain management – Dr Vivek Loomba
- 6(G) Pain pump (intrathecal drug pump) – Dr Saurabh Kapoor
- 6(H) Spinal cord stimulation – Dr. HS Chhabra/Dr. Kalyan Varma
7. Surgical treatments
- 7(A) Anterior cervical discectomy & fusion (ACDF) – Dr. S Gururaj
- 7(B) Artificial lumbar vertebral disc– Dr. Arvind Kulkarni
- 7(C) Lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) and OLIF (Oblique Lumbar) – Dr. Muralidharan
- 7(D) Minimally invasive spine surgery – Dr. Abhishek Kashyap
- 7(E) Posterior lumbar Discectomy – Dr. Himanshu Kulkarni
- 7(F) Preparing for lumbar spinal fusion – Dr. Suresh Pillai
- 7(G) Spinal decompression (laminectomy) – Dr. Nigil Sadanandan Palliyil
- 7(H) Vertebroplasty & kyphoplasty – Dr. Shailesh Hadgaonkar