MBBS, MS (Orthopaedics), FCPS(ORTHO), D(ORTHO)
AO Spine Fellowship – University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
AO Spine Fellowship – University of Berne, Switzerland
Y. Cotrel Spine Fellowship – Paris
Kenton Leathermann Clinical Spine Fellowship – UK Louisville
Over 40+ Experience Levels
For more than 25 years, Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj has devoted his life to supporting India’s underserved tribal communities, merging his medical skills with a strong commitment to social welfare. As a prominent spine surgeon, his significant contributions go far beyond the operating room. His initiative, The Spine Foundation, has been crucial in enhancing spine health for remote and marginalised populations, tackling a vital gap in healthcare services.
The urge to heal and serve society inspired Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj to study medicine. After forming a career out of spinal surgery, he became greatly alarmed over the frequency of disorders of the spine in the tribal people of India. Such people residing in secluded lands were deprived of not only advanced spine care but also even primary health care. Many people lived their whole lives at best in chronic pain unable to find relief for their ailments. Due to the dire need he saw, Dr. Bhojraj launched The Spine Foundation in the year 1998. His focus was a simple one. Help the unworthy population obtain spinal deplorable and profitable high-quality care.
The services of the Spine Foundation have positively impacted many tribal populations. To achieve that goal, Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj and his team travel to the most remote areas of the world and provide diagnostic, surgical, and rehabilitation services. Through such camps including mobile clinics, The Spine Foundation helps reach the unreachable, providing hospital-level diagnostic facilities to people in rural settings.
In these communities, spine health is critical as injuries to the back and spine are quite common due to heavy lifting and long walks. If the intervention is not timely, these conditions may worsen and transform into debilitating pain or a complete lack of mobility. For Dr. Bhojraj, it isn’t only the patients that are in focus, but also the prevention of spinal issues through education, rehabilitation, surgery, and diagnosis at an early stage.
Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj makes contribution in spine care not only by way of outreach programmes but also along the cutting edge of medical sciences and techniques. He has developed and mastered “General and Pushing” spine techniques, a minimally invasive technique aimed at shortening the recovery process and the overall improvement in the standing of individuals with complicated spine conditions. This method works by realigning the spine and correcting deformities so that the patient experiences little or no relief from extensive procedures.
This has been particularly beneficial in populations with a tribal culture because they need to perform laborious chores as well as travel long distances hence urging the need to recover quickly. Dr. Bhojraj’s techniques make patients return to their normal functioning within the shortest time possible in the least disruptive manner. His continued push for the improvement of techniques in spinal surgery has been a boon to both the people in the rural centres as well as those in urban centres.
Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj met Pd. Dr. Med. F. Magerl in Switzerland at the Annual Meeting of the Cervical Spine Research Society.
In 1990, Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj was awarded the Young Surgeons Forum Award with distinction for his immense contributions in surgery.
Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj, MD, Past President of the Association of Spine Surgeons of India, demonstrated high leadership character and commitment.
Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj was awarded the A. A. Mehta Gold Medal for presenting the best paper at the annual IOA conference.
Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj received the Professor Darai Swamy Memorial Oration Award for excellence in thoracic and thoracolumbar hyperkyphosis surgery.
Dr. Shekhar Bhojraj acquired first rank in Orthopaedics during his MS Orthopaedics examination, showing great skill.
