Dr. Amit Bhandarkar

Dr. Amit Bhandarkar M.B.B.S., M.S., M.D. Is a comprehensively trained, orthopedic spine surgeon. Dr Bhandarkar’s practice involves comprehensive care for spine ailments. His area of focus is minimally invasive spine surgery and his special interests are spine related pain management and endoscopic spine surgery, which is the least invasive option for lumbar disc related disorders.

Pain is the most important symptom that he deals with on a daily basis. He is an empathetic physician with compassionate hearing with exceptional clinical skills who puts all his efforts to locate the pain generators. He then confirms those pain generators with objective tests and formulates a plan, which is minimally invasive, but at the same time maximally effective and will keep patient pain free and functional for longest period of time.

Dr. Bhandarkar has been a keen researcher and has many international publications and presentations to his credit. He is a keen believer of evidence-based medicine and he practices only those techniques whose results are reproducible and have been proven effective beyond doubt.

His training has been comprehensive and truly global. He has practiced and done fellowships in the us and canada, seoul (south korea), maldives and india. As he has travelled across the world he has absorbed diverse cultures, customs and practices and he accepts and respects every individuals’ viewpoints, that makes easier for patients to get along with.

He wants to introduce the concept of being optimally invasive in spine surgery – which means shedding the compulsion and limitations of selective training in certain way, and having the rightly invasive option, justifying the pathology available at your disposal. This approach has been an outcome of his extensive and comprehensive training. His diverse training and experience which involves handling lots of mass casualties in sion mumbai to providing individualized care options in private setting in the us, doing complex pediatric spinal deformity at new york university to doing endoscopic day care spine pain surgeries has enabled him to come out with an optimally invasive options which may provide long term benefits. Hard gained deep insights in spine make him to strive for being minimally invasive at the same time being maximally effective. Clinical acumen of applying the right principles at the right time to benefit his patients is one of the greatest attributes he has.