Dr. Nigil Sadanandan Palliyil

Dr. Nigil Sadanandan Palliyil is an orthopaedic spinal surgeon who holds board certifications from the Royal College of Surgeons-England, Royal College of Surgeons- Edinburgh and the National Board of Examinations, New Delhi. His practice focuses exclusively on spinal surgery, encompassing a wide range of spinal disorders. He has a special interest in minimally invasive spine surgery, complex cervical and lumbar degenerative procedures, spine trauma, spine oncology, deformity corrections, and CT navigated spinal surgeries.
Dr. Palliyil earned his MBBS and MS in Orthopaedics from Government Medical College, Thrissur, Kerala, and holds a DNB degree in Orthopaedics. He completed a two-year spine fellowship program certified by the National Board (FNB) at P.D. Hinduja National Hospital in Mumbai. Subsequently, he was selected for a prestigious two-year spine fellowship program at The Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospital, UK. Following this, he advanced to the position of Associate Consultant in Spine Surgery at QMC, Nottingham.

• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Navigation based spinal surgery
• Spinal deformity corrections
• Spinal Oncology
• Cervical spine surgery

• English
• Malayalam
• Hindi
• French
• Arabic

• Best Clinical Research Paper Award at Hinduja Annual Research Meet March, 2019.
• Best paper at BNA (Bombay Neurosciences Association Meet) June 2018. Fusion, Subsidence and Clinical Outcomes of Standalone Cage in Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion for Degenerative Cervical Disorder.
• Travel Grant Scholarship for APCSS 2018 (Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society)
• All Kerala Orthopaedic Quiz- Runner up. KOACON 2017. 36th Annual Conference of the Kerala Orthopaedic Association, Kasargod, Kerala January 2017.
• Gold medal in Physiology, Government Medical College, Thrissur 2007.

Professional Membership

• Association of Spine Surgeons of India (ASSI)
• AO Spine
• Indian Medical Association (IMA)
• IOA (Indian Orthopaedic Association)
• KOA (Kerala Orthopaedic Association)
• Cochin Orthopaedic  Society (COS)