Mr Vel Sakthivel

Mr Vel Sakthivel

Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon

Vel Sakthivel is a Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon offering a bespoke service in Southampton and Poole for sports injuries in children and young adults, knee surgery and treatments such as: diagnostic arthroscopy, meniscal injury, osteochondral injury, anterior cruciate ligament, trochleoplasty, fractures and soft tissue injury.

Mr Vel Sakthivel is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with experience in musculoskeletal trauma, children's orthopaedics, sports injuries and knee surgery. He works in a busy university hospital, which is a major level I trauma centre. It is also a regional referral centre for paediatric orthopaedics. Vel is the Regional Surgical Advisor for the Wessex Region appointed by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Vel specialises in the following:

• Sports injuries in children and young adults
  
• Knee surgery - children 
  
• Knee surgery - adults
  
• Children's orthopaedics
  

  

Treatments available:

 

ACL reconstruction Achilles repair and reconstruction Chondroplasty Knee arthroscopy Knee injury Knee ligament injury Knee osteoarthritis Knee replacement

Knee surgery (ACL repair) Meniscal tear Meniscectomy PCL reconstruction Patella stabilisation Patello-femoral joint replacement Unicompartmental knee replacement (UKR)

Vel has published a number of papers for The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and the European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology. He is currently writing a Current Concepts Review on ‘The Feet in Children and Adolescents’. 

The General Medical Council
The British Orthopaedic Association
The British Society for Children's Orthopaedic Surgery
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh