Mr Khakha is a fellowship trained Trauma and Specialist Knee Surgeon. His expertise revolves around all aspects of knee surgery including sports injuries (ACL, PCL, multi-ligament injuries), children’s knee injuries, joint/cartilage preservation through to replacement surgery (partial and total knee replacement). He is renowned for his interest in ligament and osteotomy techniques where he routinely publishes in peer reviewed journals and teaches surgical techniques around the globe.
His NHS practice is based at Guys and St Thomas Hospitals, where is currently the lead for the Trauma Service. His philosophy is based on knee joint preservation techniques where he routinely performs routine through to complex ligament reconstructions together with meniscal repair and joint realignment surgery to preserve a failing joint. He routinely accepts referrals from colleagues and regional hospitals to perform these types of operations.
Following his successful completion of fellowship in the US at Massachusetts General Hospital in trauma surgery and knee fellowship at North Hampshire Hospitals, Mr Khakha embarked on his consultant career at Guy’s and St Thomas’. Prior to this, he trained on the prestigious South-East London Training Rotation, for which he is now the Deputy Training Programme Director. He is also Knee Lead Tutor for South London and KSS Trauma and Orthopaedic training programme and is Honorary clinical lecturer at Kings College London, where he is also Patron of the Orthopaedic Society. He has a passion for research as well as education and training, and regularly speaks at international and national meetings on modern minimally invasive knee surgical techniques.
Mr Khakha regularly hosts fellows from the UK and abroad who come to refine their skills in knee surgery.
Biography
Education
Fellowship in the US at Massachusetts General Hospital in trauma surgery
Knee fellowship at North Hampshire Hospitals
South-East London Training Rotation
Co-chair for scientific committee for ESSKA
Qualifications
Deputy Training Programme Director in South-East London Training Rotation
Knee Lead Tutor for South London and KSS Trauma and Orthopaedic training programme
Honorary clinical lecturer and Patron of the Orthopaedic Society at Kings College London
Papers
- Role of high tibial osteotomy in medial compartment osteoarthritis of the knee: Indications, surgical technique and outcomes. Raghbir S. Khakha, Hamid Rahmatullah Bin Abd Razak, Kristian Kley, Ronald van Heerwaarden, Adrian J. Wilson. Published online October 1, 2021
- Assessment of return to sport and functional outcomes following distal femoral, double level and high tibial osteotomies for active patients with symptomatic varus malalignment. Jae-Sung An, Ahmed Mabrouk, Raghbir Khakha, Kristian Kley, Hideyuki Koga, Christophe Jacquet & Matthieu Ollivier. 17th June 2023
- Posteromedial Opening-Wedge Tibial Osteotomy for Metaphyseal Varus and Abnormal Posterior Slope Correction in Failed Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructions Using a Custom Cutting Guide. Boris Corin, Adrian Wilson, Raghbir Khakha, Kristian Kley, Sebastien Parratte, Matthieu Ollivier. 10 February 2010
- A 2021 consensus statement on osteotomies around the knee by the UK Knee Osteotomy consensus Group (KOG). Martyn Snow, Paul Jermain, Vipul Mandalia, James Murray, Raghbir Khakha, Mike McNicholas, Matt Dawson, the UK Knee Osteotomy consensus Group 1. 4 March 2021
- Graft materials provide greater static strength to medial opening wedge high tibial osteotomy than when no graft is included. James Belsey, Arnaud Diffo Kaze, Simon Jobson, James Faulkner, Stefan Maas, Raghbir Khakha, Adrian J. Wilson & Dietrich Pape. 28 March 2018
- The biomechanical effects of allograft wedges used for large corrections during medial opening wedge high tibial osteotomy. James Belsey, Arnaud Diffo Kaze, Simon Jobson, James Faulkner, Stefan Maas, Raghbir Khakha ,Dietrich Pape, Adrian J. Wilson. 10th May 2019
- Role of high tibial osteotomy in medial compartment osteoarthritis of the knee: Indications, surgical technique and outcomes. Raghbir S. Khakha, Hamid Rahmatullah Bin Abd Razak, Kristian Kley, Ronald van Heerwaarden, Adrian J. Wilson. Published online October 1, 2021
- Evaluation of the “Minimal Clinically Important Difference”(MCID) of the KOOS, KSS and SF-12 scores after open-wedge high tibial osteotomy. Christophe Jacquet, Charles Pioger, Raghbir Khakha, Camille Steltzlen, Kristian Kley, Nicolas Pujol & Matthieu Ollivier . 27th April 2020
- Radiological and Functional Outcomes in Computer Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty Between Consultants and Trainees — A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial. Raghbir S. Khakha MBBS, BSc (Hons), MRCS, Majid Chowdhry FRCS, Manjunathan Sivaprakasam MRCS, Amin Kheiran MRCS, Sandeep K. Chauhan FRCS. 26th December 2014
- Incidence and Risk Factors for Residual High-Grade Pivot Shift After ACL Reconstruction With or Without a Lateral Extra-articular Tenodesis. Christophe Jacquet, MD, Charles Pioger, Romain Seil, Raghbir Khakha, Sebastien Parratte,Camille Steltzlen, Jean-Noel Argenson, Nicolas Pujol, Matthieu Ollivier. 7th May 2021
- Femoral and Tibial Bony Risk Factors for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries Are Present in More Than 50% of Healthy Individuals. Grégoire Micicoi Christophe Jacquet, Raghbir Khakha, Sally LiArno, Ahmad Faizan, Romain Seil, Baris Kocaoglu, Simone Cerciello, Pierre Martz, Matthieu Ollivier. 28th October 2021
- Improved Survival of Computer-Assisted Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: 252 Cases With a Minimum Follow-Up of 5 Years. Majid Chowdhry FRCS, Raghbir S. Khakha BSc (Hons), FRCS, Mark Norris FRCS, Amin Kheiran MRCS, Sandeep K. Chauhan FRCS. 12th February 2016
