Accomplishments
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. This was published in Pain Medicine Case Reports.
Technical challenges of performing S1 root block: role for double needle and multilevel needle technique. Click here to view
I was the Chair of the working group of the following three guidelines:
Standards of Good Practice for Spinal Interventional Procedures in Pain Medicine: Click here to view
Recommendations for Good Practice in the use of Medial Branch Block (MBB) Injections and Radiofrequency Denervation (RFD) for Low Back Pain of Lumbar Facet Joint Origin: Click here to view
Recommendations for Good Practice in the Use of Epidural Injection for the Management of Pain of Spinal Origin in Adults (Second Edition):
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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 am a Co-Director of the Leeds Cadaver Course for Pain Interventions started in 2008.
I am an instructor for the European cadaver course by Interventional Pain and Spinal Intervention Society, USA (IPSIS, USA). I was influential in bringing the IPSIS European Congress 2018 to London.
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.
- Survey of Awareness of the Guidelines Published by the Faculty of Pain Medicine and the British Pain Society
- Multiple Needle Technique: An Alternative Method for Performing Difficult Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection
- A Comparison of Radiation Exposure during Interventional Lumbar Spinal procedures at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with the UK National Patient Dose Database guidelines for Facet Joint Injections
- Audit of post procedural outcomes following repeat interventional procedures for the treatment of chronic pain
Abstracts published in British Journal of Pain: Click here to view
- Spinal Interventions and Anticoagulants – Do we stop them? A Comparative Survey of 242 Pain Physicians from the UK and USA
- Particulate or Non-Particulate Steroid for Transforaminal Epidural Injections: A Comparative Survey of 242 Pain Physicians from the UK and USA
- Comparison of Interventional Pain Medicine Practice in the UK and the USA: A Survey of 242 Pain Physicians
- A survey of the management of dilemmas faced by interventional pain physicians in the United Kingdom
- A survey of pain medicine practice in the united kingdom.
- Use of Fluoroscopy, Contrast Material and Steroids in Neuraxial Injections in Chronic Pain
- Survey of advanced pain training opportunities in the North of England.
- Developing a Questionnaire to Assess the Suitability of a Repeat Interventional Procedure for Pain Relief
- Current Practice of Interventional Pain Procedures in North of England.
- Patient’s Perspective of Chronic Pain Service Delivery.
- Effectiveness of TENS in Chronic Pain Conditions – A Survey.
- Repeat Interventions in Chronic Pain Management A Survey in the North of England.
- Audit on Clinical Effectiveness/Patient Outcome following Repeat Lumbar Facet Joint Injections for the Treatment of Facetogenic Low Back Pain
- Steroids in Pain Interventions
- Anticoagulants and Interventional Pain Procedures
- Asepsis and Pain Intervention
- National Survey of the staffing and equipment in the Pain Centres in the UK
- Effectiveness of Particulate or a non-particulate steroid preparation for lumbar sleeve nerve root injections
- The art of Stimulation Guided Pain Mapping – The way Forward! Annual
- Survey of Bradford Teaching Hospitals Chronic Pain Population Ethnicity and its Pain Perception
- Chronic Post-Herniorraphy Pain – A Prospective Study
- Factors increasing the risk of stroke following anaesthesia and surgery
- A survey of benefits of a supra-regional pain management programme, it’s effect on patients quality of life, their dependence upon prescribed medication and use of health care services
- A survey of benefits of a supra-regional pain management programme, it’s effect on patients quality of life, their dependence upon prescribed medication and use of health care services
- Effect of Acupuncture treatment on postoperative pain after knee arthroscopy
- Effect of Acupuncture treatment on postoperative pain after knee arthroscopy
- The direct cerebral vasodilatory effects of sevoflurane in human
- The effect of incremental doses of sevoflurane on cerebral autoregulation in humans: A Transcranial Doppler Study
- The effect of incremental doses of sevoflurane on cerebral autoregulation in humans