Dr. Ramnarayan

Dr. Ramnarayan is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Muscat Private Hospital with specialised expertise in functional and restorative neurosurgery — the branch of neurosurgery concerned not with removing disease, but with restoring function that has been lost or disrupted by neurological illness or injury.

Rather than conventional open surgery, much of his practice involves neuromodulation: the implantation of precisely targeted devices that deliver controlled electrical stimulation to the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves, or pumps that deliver medication directly to the fluid around the spinal cord. These techniques are typically considered when medication alone has stopped controlling a condition adequately, and they are adjustable and, in most cases, reversible.

His procedures include deep brain stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, dystonia and essential tremor; spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic neuropathic pain and failed back surgery syndrome; vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for drug-resistant epilepsy; intrathecal baclofen and morphine pump therapy for severe spasticity and intractable pain; and sacral nerve stimulation for bladder and bowel dysfunction.

Dr. Ramnarayan holds an MCh in neurosurgery, FRCS, and is an International Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (IFAANS). He completed a Functional Neurosurgery Fellowship in the United Kingdom and has managed complex neurosurgical and neurofunctional cases across leading healthcare institutions. He consults in English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil.