Dr. Venkat Sethuraman
MD, MBA, FAAOS, FAARM. Fellowship-trained in spine at Mayo Clinic, and again in anti-aging, regenerative and functional medicine. More than a thousand spine surgeries performed.
A surgeon who is comfortable telling you not to have surgery.
A thousand operations teaches you two things. The first is how to do them well. The second, harder one, is how to recognise the patient who will not be helped by one — and to say so out loud, in a system that pays for the operation and not for the conversation.
That is the posture of this practice. Find the cause. Consider the full range of treatment. Recommend surgery when it is genuinely the right answer, and not before.
The second thing that shapes the practice is a refusal to treat the spine as though it belongs to nobody. Discs heal, or fail to, inside a body with a metabolism, a sleep pattern, an inflammatory state and a life. Ignoring that is why so much spine care produces a technically successful operation and an unsatisfied patient.
He wrote a book about it, The Living Equation, and the practice runs the way the book argues.
- Fellowships
- Spine — Mayo Clinic
Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine — FAARM - Board
- FAAOS — Fellow, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- Business
- MBA, The Wharton School
- Writing
- The Living Equation: The Science of Becoming More Alive
- Podcast
- The Living Equation
- Publications
- Research and media to be listed
Named among the best orthopaedic surgeons in America.
Peer-nominated, board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, and listed alongside spine surgeons in New York, Miami and Las Vegas. Also named Best Spine Surgeon in Dallas by Living Magazine.
The Living Equation
Body. Mind. Spirit. Truth. Dr. Sethuraman and co-host Caleb Clark on what actually moves health — in depth, unfiltered, uncomplicated.
Real conversations with the people shaping the future of health. It shares its name with his book.
If you want his read on your imaging, that is what a consultation is for.
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