Dr Pakravan’s qualifications including in Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography, and wealth of experience at highest levels of elite sports as well as general musculoskeletal and orthopaedic medicine enables him to offer his patients detailed assessment, appropriate investigations and interventions including ultrasound guided joints and soft tissue injections, and a tailormade personalised management plan to ensure not only optimum pain management but also long term functional benefits. His ethos is to equip his clients with relevant knowledge and skills; and provide them with the same high standards of holistic medical care available to elite athletes.
The service is available both to Self-funded clients and through most major Private Health Insurance covers
Some of the common presentations seen, include but not limited to these:
- Neck, upper back, thoracic spine and lower back pain, …
- Shoulder pain including frozen shoulder, impingement, rotator cuff issues, dislocation, …
- Elbow pain including tennis and golfers’ elbow, biceps tendinopathy, …
- Wrist, hand, fingers, and thumb presentations such as osteoarthritis, trigger finger, tenosynovitis as in De Quervain’s, …
- Hips pain including osteoarthritis, impingement, trochanteric pain, bursitis, tendon injuries and tendinopathy, sacroiliac joint pain, …
- Hamstring injuries and tendinopathy, Quadriceps injuries and tendinopathy, ITB friction syndrome, …
- Knee pain including ligament and meniscal injuries, osteoarthritis, patello-femoral pain, patellar maltracking, fat pad impingement, tendinopathies, bursitis, …
- Lower leg pain including shin pain (Exercise Induced Leg Pain / shin splint), calf injuries, Achilles pain and injuries, …
- Ankle pain including osteoarthritis, sprains, ligament and tendon injuries, …
- Foot and toe pain including osteoarthritis, plantar fasciopathy, …
- Also seen: various Fractures, and Stress injuries / Stress Fractures, Gout, Myofascial pain and Trigger Points, Neural presentations such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Meralgia Paraesthetica, …
What to expect in a consultation:
- Please bring comfortable clothing with you, normally shorts / gym cloth.
- There will be a full history taking, appropriate detailed physical assessment which in addition to the joint / limb involved will also cover an assessment of potential background contributing factors
- If appropriate an ultrasound scan assessment or as necessary referral for relevant blood tests and / or further investigations such as Xray or MRI
- Where appropriate you may be offered various pain management options, ultrasound guided injections, extracorporeal shockwave therapy, etc.
- Your management plan as necessary may include referrals to other members of multidisciplinary team such as physiotherapist, osteopath, chiropractor, and podiatrist with regular reviews of progress as appropriate
- Where necessary, referrals to other specialties may be considered.
TO BOOK AN APPOITNMENT :
London Canary Wharf (Crossrail Place) Bupa Centre
Crossrail Station and Retail Mall, Unit 20, Level Zero, 1 Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AR
T: +44 (0)20 7256 2462 E: canarywharf@bupa.com
Parking: Canada Square Shopping Mall (Waitrose)
Canary Wharf Station, Jubilee Line
Canary Wharf Station, Crossrail Elizabeth Line
Canary Wharf Station, DLR
