Hosalkar: The Weight-Bearing Joint

Hosalkar has received medical training at some of the finest institutions in the world. He began as a medical student at the University of Mumbai, from which he graduated in 1993. He did a residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and Fellowships at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, UK, Orthopedics, and at the Inselspital Hospital in Bern, Switzerland, where he trained in hip preservation, reconstruction, and trauma.

Hosalkar specializes in hip-preservation and hip reconstruction. As the Director of the Center for Hip Preservation and Children’s Orthopedics, he is especially skilled in the treatment of hip dysfunction. “The hip joint is one of the body’s largest weight-bearing joints,” he explains, “and is the point where the thigh bone (femur) and the pelvis (acetabulum) join.”

He also treats many other orthopedic disorders and problems. Hosalkar performs orthopedic surgeries on people of all ages, from children to teenagers, and older patients. Hosalkar works on many problems lying in the orthopedic spectrum, including fracture care and repair, complex deformity correction, joint replacement and reconstruction, orthopedic problems resulting from traumatic brain injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, spasticity and bone tumors. 

Hosalkar delivers high-quality orthopedic care specific to each patient’s condition. 

Hosalkar is one of the attending surgeons at Tri City Medical Center in San Diego. He says that he and his colleagues are determined to build it into a leading orthopedic center. “Our goals at Tri-City Hospital Medical Center, which is a phenomenal orthopedic institute, as well as a great community hospital in this part of town, is essentially to build a high-level, advanced, hip preservation and reconstruction program here at this hospital,” Hosalkar says.

Hosalkar is a nationally recognized orthopedics expert with many treatments and procedures under his belt. Hosalkar has worked with many in the field to discuss and develop better ways to treat orthopedic disorders and conditions. Hosalkar’s method is one of careful evaluation. Hosalkar uses the latest methods in orthopedic medicine to provide patients’ cutting-edge treatments. Hosalkar uses everything at his disposal to mitigate pain and provide the best treatment available.