Personal Profile
Mr Ravindra Gudena is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust, specialising in primary and revision hip and knee replacement. He also has special interest in hip impingement, young adult hip problems and he underwent special training doing hip arthroscopy.
He is one of the highest-performing Minimally invasive hip and knee replacement surgeons in the North West, with very high success rates – performing over 400 primary joint replacement procedures a year and 50 hip and knee revision surgeries.
Mr Gudena pioneered in using 3D technology in Orthopaedics and performed highest number of 3D printed ConforMIS knee replacements and customised Hip replacements. He uses the latest techniques including n-Stride injections and other stem cell injections to prevent arthritis.
Mr Gudena is one of the very few surgeons in the region who can perform Hip arthroscopy to treat hip impingement.
Mr Gudena graduated in 2001 and received Fellow of Royal Colleges Award in 2010. He Completed Fellowship in Canada and visited centres across Canada and United States of America to enhance his clinical and academic experience. He has a strong academic background and has published extensively in his specialty of interest.
He uses latest techniques in treating the hip and knee problems including minimally invasive hip and knee replacements, patient specific knee replacements (TruMatch) ConforMIS 3D printed customised knee replacement and PRP (platelet rich plasma) injections for chronic tendon, bursa problems.
He is one of the first few surgeons in UK and the first Surgeon in North West to do 3D printed customised ConforMIS Knee replacement, which gives excellent results.
He is the clinical lead for the joint replacement surgery and National Joint registry at his NHS Trust and BOA Champion for joint replacements.
Current NHS/University Posts
- Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mersey and West Lancashire NHS Trust
Clinical interests
- Minimally Invasive Hip Replacements
- Revision Hip replacement,
- Hip Impingement and Young Adult Hip surgery
- Hip Arthroscopy
- Hip Bursitis and IT band snapping problems
- Hip Cartilage problems
- Minimally Invasive Knee replacements
- 3D Printed customised knee replacements
- Revision knee replacements
- Knee Athrosocpy
- Joint injections- PRP, Arthrosamid, Ostenil, n-Stride
Professional memberships
- Royal Colleges England
- General Medical Council
- British Medical Association
Treatments offered
- Buttock pain
- Hip and groin pain
- Hip arthritis
- Hip arthroscopy
- Hip bursitis
- Hip complications
- Hip debridement surgery
- Hip dislocation
- Hip impingement
- Hip injection treatment
- Hip replacement surgery
- Hip resurfacing
- Hip revision
- Ischial Sitting bone bursitis pain
- Joint pain
- Labral tear in the hip
- Cartilage operation
- Chondral injury
- Conformis knee replacement
- Iliotibial band (ITB) syndrome
- Knee arthritis
- Knee arthroscopy
- Knee bursitis
- Knee injuries
- Knee meniscal tear
- Knee pain
- Knee replacement surgery
- Knee tendonitis
- Open reduction internal fixation
- Plica syndrome
- Revision knee replacement