Sacroiliac Joint Pain is common in women and can often be missed. I have described a New Technique of performing Sacroiliac Joint Injections which increases the chances of injecting medications correctly into the joint. This is now followed by many Pain Specialists across the World. The publication can be accessed via the following link: Click here to view
I was the first to publish a new technique of performing epidural steroid injection for radicular pain / sciatica: Pre-Contrast Injection Multiple Needle Placement Technique: An Alternative Method for Performing Challenging Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections for Radicular Pain. This technique will improve the chances of delivering the steroid at the target site for patients with sciatica / radicular pain. The manuscript will be published in IPM Report soon.
I am the chair of the Standards of Good Practice for Medial Branch Block and Radiofrequency Denervation for Low Back Pain Click here to view
I am the chair of the Standards of Good Practice for Spinal Interventional Procedures in Pain Medicine. Click here to view
I was the Chair of the British Pain Society and Map of Medicine Multidisciplinary Low Back Pain and Radicular pain Pathways. The pathways development committee consisted of 19 members representing General Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Spinal Surgeons, Neurosurgeons, Pain Medicine specialists and a Patient Representative. The Low Back Pain and Radicular Pain Pathways are Pragmatic Pathway representing a consensus opinion based on the best available evidence and practical common sense. The pathways are available on the Map of Medicine website for healthcare professional via NHS Athens login. A summary of the pathways were also published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia:
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Represented the British Pain Society in the development of guideline: Recommendations for Good Practice in the use of Epidural Injections for the Management of Pain of Spinal Origin in Adults. (Currently I am leading the project to update this guideline)
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Leeds Cadaver Course on Spinal Interventions / Injections for Pain Management: I am a co-director of the Leeds Cadaver Course. The 11th Annual course was in May 2019.
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Chair, European Spinal Intervention Society Annual Meeting, London, March 2018
Organise/Assisting Organize the North England Pain Medicine Group meeting every year since 2008
As an Educational Meetings Advisor for the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, London, I organised 20 courses on pain management related topics between 2012 and 2017.
Director of European Course on Imaging and Investigations in Pain Medicine, June 2016.
Director of Surgical Skills for Neuromodulation, January 2016.
International Advisor for meeting in India “Global Update of Pain”. Directed Cadaver workshop/Chaired/Lectured (2003; 2009; 2012; 2015).
I was invited to deliver a Key Note presentation on Interventional Pain Medicine Practice in the UK at the 21st American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas in May 2019.
I was invited as faculty at the European Spine Intervention Society Annual meeting in Munich in May 2019. Presented on Lumbar Medial Branch Block for low back pain and Chaired a session of Cervical Interventions for neck pain.
I was invited as a senior instructor to present and teach on the International Spine Intervention Society European Cadaver Course on Spinal Interventions in Amsterdam in October 2019. Presented on Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections for radicular pain / sciatica and taught delegates from across the world the techniques of safely performing spinal intervention for pain management.
I have presented over 100 Invited Lectures on Pain Medicine related topics at Local, Regional, National & International meetings. Some of them are included under the heading “Presentation” on this website.