Dr. Jacob Eapen Mathew
Senior Consultant
A Spine Surgeon with more 12 years of experience, Dr. Jacob Eapen Mathew is an expert in advanced minimally invasive spine surgery for management of degenerative disc problems of the neck and back, spinal tumours, infections, craniovertebral dislocation, spinal injuries and other complex conditions of the spine. Trained at some of the finest hospitals in India, Canada and Germany, he is one of the very few Neurosurgeons in the country with specialised orthopaedic spine training for correction of scoliosis/ spinal deformities in adults and children.
Dr. Jacob Eapen Mathew is the first spine surgeon in South India to perform lumbar cortical screw fixation and percutaneous Ilio-sacral screw fixation procedures. He is also an expert in conservative (open) surgeries for all spinal conditions and non-surgical management of back, neck and arm pain/ numbness.
Qualifications
AO Spine North America Certified Fellowship | Fellowship in Paediatric Scoliosis and Deformity (Shriners Hospital for Children and Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, Canada) | Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada) |Fellowship in Spine Surgery, Orthopaedic Scoliosis and Spine Program - Adult deformity (Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada) | Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada) | Fellowship in Neuro-endoscopy (Hospital of Barmherzigen Brüder, Trier, Germany) | MCh in Neurosurgery (Christian Medical College, Vellore) | MBBS (Christian Medical College, Ludhiana)
Achievements
Expertise in complex surgeries including:
Single stage Cranio-Vertebral realignment and fusion
Minimally invasive decompression and fusions for cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal conditions
Adult deformity correction surgery
Keyhole spine tumour excision
Minimal Access Spine Surgery (MASS)
Lumbar fusions: TLIF/PLIF/OLIF/ALIF
Spinal stenosis decompression
Tubular Discectomy
Posterior Cervical Microforaminotomy
Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty
Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation for fractures
Minimal access spine tumour removal
Percutaneous ilio-sacral screws for sacral ring fractures
Conventional Spine Surgery
Re-alignment of atlantoaxial dislocation
C1-2 lateral mass / pedicle screw fusion
Foramen magnum decompression in Chiari
Cervical laminectomy & lateral mass fixation
Anterior Cervical Discectomy & Fusion (ACDF)
Cervical disc replacement
Cervical Corpectomy and laminoplasty
Adult deformity surgery
Laminectomy
Microlumbar discectomy
Lumbar inter-body fusions
Lumbar cortical screw fixation
Sacrectomy & Coccygectomy
En-bloc resection of bony tumours & metastatic tumours
Spine Deformity Surgery
Scoliosis correction
Kyphosis correction
Correction of sagittal and coronal plane imbalance
Pain, Spasticity & Bladder/Bowel dysfunction
Spinal cord stimulation for failed back surgery syndrome or intractacable low Back pain
Intrathecal Baclofen or Morphine pump placement
Sacral Neuromodulation (InterStim stimulator for bladder/bowel incontinence)
Spine Interventional Procedures
Epidural steroid injection
Transforaminal injections epidural block
Facet blocks & pars block
Sacro iliac joint blocks
RACZ procedure
Work Experience:
Consultant and Associate Professor at Christian Medical College, Vellore
Consultant and Associate Professor at Christian Medical College Ludhiana
Consultant Neurosurgeon at Khoula Hospital, Muscat Oman
Published 10 articles in peer reviewed national and international journals
Proficient in Malayalam, English, Hindi
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