Chronic pain syndromes

This list shows every expert witness in the UK Register of Expert Witnesses who claims expertise in Chronic pain syndromes. Click on any expert witness to view full details. You may prefer to interactively search the Register.

Dr Williams in CHESTERFIELD
Assessment, diagnosis & management of chronic pain states • Low back pain • Neck pain • Complex regional pain syndrome • Fibromyalgia • Pain following traumatic injury • Pelvic pain • Abdominal pain • Spinal pain • Complex chronic pain management
Professor Davis in PRESTON
Head injury • Brain damage • Neck injuries • Spinal cord injuries • Lumbar spine problems • Pain syndromes • Back disorders • Negligence • Screening • Free phone discussion • Settlement at 1 year • Pro bono advice • 30 years' experience Also at: Greater Lancashire Hospital, Wyder Court, Millennium City Park, Preston , PR2 5BW.
Dr Dolin in LONDON
Pain medicine • Pain management of acute and chronic pain • Post-surgical and post-traumatic pain • Neuropathic pain • Visceral pain • Chronic musculoskeletal pain • Chronic primary pain • Complex regional pain syndrome • Fibromyalgia • Neck pain • Mid back pain • Low back pain • Whiplash injury pain • Expertise in diagnosis, causation, treatment, prognosis and assessment of work and leisure prospects from the chronic pain perspective Consults in Goring-by-Sea, Chichester, London and Scotland
Dr Brow in LONDON
All aspects of general adult and forensic psychiatry
Dr Gerber in GLASGOW
General adult psychiatry • Sexology • Psychosexual medicine • Gender identity issues • Cannabis-based medical products All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .
Dr Hunter in MANCHESTER
Dr Hunter accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Acute medicine • General internal medicine • Geriatric medicine • Life expectancy • Stroke • Thrombectomy • Transient ischaemic attack
Dr Drayton in LONDON
Opus Performance Medico-legal London and Birmingham | Online assessments My expert witness reports provide clear well-reasoned opinions to answer your questions. My diagnoses are based on established DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and are written in plain English. Reports are filed within 2 weeks of assessment. My 30 years of experience enables me to unravel complex trauma cases and provide psychological evidence that will assist the court and help you to present your case in the best possible way. I specialise in complex cases, including multiple physical and psychological...
Mr Leonard in LEEDS
I am a UK trained Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon with subspecialty interests in hand surgery, limb reconstruction, peripheral nerve surgery and surgical care of amputees. I have extensive experience in all aspects of hand trauma, upper and lower extremity trauma requiring soft-tissue reconstruction (including microsurgery), peripheral nerve injury, scarring and the surgical management of complex pain, including targeted muscle reinnervation.
Dr Sinha in UPMINSTER
Ultrasound and fluoroscopic-guided interventional procedures • Spinal pain • Complex chronic pain All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .
Dr English in STORRINGTON
Laparoscopic gynaecological surgery in general • Endometriosis surgery and management, especially complex disease involving bowel, urinary tract and nerves • Emergency gynaecology • Gynaecological surgery in general • Hysteroscopic surgery
Dr Gaspar in SHREWSBURY
I have been a consultant in pain medicine since 1998 and writing medico-legal reports since 2008. I have attained the Cardiff University and Bond Solon Certification as an Expert Witness in Civil Law in 2015. I deal both with personal injury and complex clinical negligence cases. I have written articles relating to the role of the pain specialist offering the courts an explanation of the basic science and mechanisms as to how pain becomes chronic. I deal with all areas of chronic pain, including whiplash, neuralgia, complex regional pain syndromes, cancer pain, spinal cord stimulation, failed ...
Dr Adedokun in MANCHESTER
Dr Adedokun has extensive clinical experience in the management of various chronic pain syndromes including persistent neck, back or neuropathic pain especially following personal & occupational injuries, with experience in medical negligence claims • Dr Adedokun's experience also includes other chronic pain conditions such atypical facial pain, trigeminal neuralgia, post herpetic neuralgia, & other neuropathic pain syndromes, complex headaches, complex regional pain syndrome, cancer pain, musculo-skeletal injuries & pain, repetitive strain injuries, fibromyalgia, chronic myo...
Dr Akenzua in SUTTON
Dr Akenzua produces reports relating to clinical negligence and personal injury cases within the specialty of general adult psychiatry. He is competent to address issues of breach of duty and causation. He also produces condition and prognosis reports. Dr Akenzua has a special interest in forensic psychiatry.
Dr Drayton in BIRMINGHAM
Opus Performance Medico-legal London and Birmingham | Online assessments My expert witness reports provide clear well-reasoned opinions to answer your questions. My diagnoses are based on established DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and are written in plain English. Reports are filed within 2 weeks of assessment. My 30 years of experience enables me to unravel complex trauma cases and provide psychological evidence that will assist the court and help you to present your case in the best possible way. I specialise in complex cases, including multiple physical and psychological...
Dr Crabtree in MANCHESTER
Dr Crabtree accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Acute pain management • Anaesthesia • Back pain • Chronic pain • Chronic pelvic pain • Neck pain • Pain medicine
Professor Saxena in CARDIFF
Pain management/medicine • Back pain • Neck pain • Complex regional pain syndrome • Neuropathic pain • Fibromyalgia • Chronic widespread pain • Acute pain • Post-traumatic pain • Post-surgical pain • Medically unexplained pain
Mr Shoukrey in DORCHESTER
I am a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a position I have held since 2011. I have been practising obstetrics and gynaecology for over 25 years since qualification. I hold the Cardiff University/Bond Solon Certificate in Civil Law. I excel in translating complex medical information into clear, understandable, evidence-based CPR 35-compliant reports, addressing liability, causation and prognosis. Areas of expertise • Advanced minimal access surgery (laparoscopic and hysteroscopic keyhole surgery...
Dr Frazer in LEEDS
I used to undertake the assessment of claimants and defendants in civil claims, including personal injury and medical negligence cases. I have retired from the NHS, and have now stopped taking new cases. I continue to sit on the NEAP committee and to train doctors who seek reapproval under the MHA (1983). I am AC and Section 12(2)-approved. I am an on-call psychiatrist for Cygnet Hospitals Bradford.
Dr Baloch in GUILDFORD
All aspects of chronic pain management, including chronic pain syndromes, whiplash & complex regional pain syndromes
Professor Child in MANCHESTER
Professor Child accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Chronic pelvic pain • Endometriosis • Erectile dysfunction • Female infertility • Gynaecology • Male infertility • Miscarriage • Ovarian cysts • Polycystic ovaries (PCOS) • Uterine problems
Dr Wilkins in MAIDENHEAD
I am a consultant general adult and forensic psychiatrist. My name is on the Specialist Register. I have provided expert witness services for over 40 years. I regularly receive instructions from solicitors, regulatory bodies, local authorities and others in relation to legal proceedings - criminal, civil and tribunal proceedings. I have received accredited training and have been an accredited trainer.
Dr Turner in MANCHESTER
Pain management • Assessment, diagnosis & prognosis of unexplained persistent pain & disability following injury • Anaesthetics: general & regional anaesthesia • Pain from injuries due to road traffic accidents, trauma injuries related to the neck, skeletal, soft tissue & spine • Continuing pain following surgery • Management of pain, pain management programmes, pain therapy & relief • Chronic pain syndromes & pain-related disability • Fibromyalgia • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy & complex regional pain syndrome
Dr Carstairs in BROMLEY
Psychological testing & assessment of adults • Post-traumatic stress disorder & personal injury • Malingering • Fitness to plead or stand trial • Treatment planning & questions of disposition • Diagnosis of psychopathology • Professional negligence • Anxiety • Depression • Bereavement
Dr McGillion in LONDON
Personal injury (adults) • PTSD • Anxiety disorders • Road traffic accidents • Work accidents • Housing stress • Psychological aspects of medical negligence, e.g. chronic pain • Extensive experience of working with interpreters • Experience of utilising psychometric assessments in assessing a wide range of mental health problems
Dr Cartwright in LONDON
In my clinical practice, I am a Consultant Urogynaecologist, with broad experience in vaginal and laparoscopic procedures, including abdominal insertion of mesh. I have more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, covering broadly the clinical epidemiology of pelvic floor disorders, with wide experience in guideline development (at local, national and international level), and a particular interest in the epidemiology and pathophysiology of incontinence, prolapse and mesh complications.
Dr Mir in SHEFFIELD
Personal injury • Psychiatric consequences of road traffic accidents • Psychiatric consequences of work-related accidents • Work-related stress • Psychiatric aspects of stress • Psychiatric aspects of assault • Depression • Bipolar disorder • Anxiety • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Schizophrenia • Adult psychiatry • Liaison psychiatry • Perinatal psychiatry • Psychiatric disorders of pregnancy • Postnatal psychiatric disorders • Postnatal depression • Safeguarding children • Psychiatr...
Dr Whymark in KIRKCALDY
Consultant in pain management and anaesthesia since 2004. Adopting a multidisciplinary biopsychosocial approach to pain management for fibromyalgia, CRPS and chronic conditions following injury or operation. I have a special interest in somatic conditions and functional neurological disorders (FNDs), and their overlap with chronic pain conditions. Preparing 100 reports per year since 2018, 70% claimant. Feedback from advocates and solicitors quoted on website.
Dr Shanbhag in COVENTRY
Vulval, vaginal, cervical, uterine, tubal, ovarian, peritoneal cancer • Abnormal smears • Abnormal menstrual bleeding/periods • Endometriosis • Pelvic inflammatory disease • Sexually transmitted infections • Sexual offences in women • Post-operative complications arising from surgery for gynaecological problems • Post-operative complications arising from surgery for abnormally invasive placenta • Robotic surgery
Dr Malik in BIRMINGHAM
Experienced psychiatric expert witness for civil litigation and criminal cases • Expertise in diagnosis and causation Covering: • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • RTA • Criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead and stand trial • Dangerousness and risk assessment • Sentencing reports Examples of conditions covered: catastrophic injury, depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, schizophrenia CPR 35 compliant
Dr Markos in email/phone contact only
• Expert witness since 1998 • Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians • Fellow of the European Conjoint Committee for Sexual Medicine • Medical negligence • Rape, sexual abuse, assault, offences (adult female, female adolescent, child, drugs, alcohol) • Sexual dysfunction (female/male) • Sexually transmitted infections, diseases (HIV, AIDS, herpes, gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, syphilis, hepatitis, warts, HPV) • Impotence (drugs, accidents, tr...
Dr Cahill in ALTRINCHAM
Adult psychiatry, including: • Accident • Anxiety disorders • Bereavement & grief • Chronic pain • Capacity • Depression • Eating disorders • Fitness to plead • Liaison psychiatry • Medical negligence • Mental disorder • Military/armed forces • Mood disorders • Occupational • Paranoia • Personality disorders • Post-traumatic stress disorders • Psychotic disorders • Road traffic accidents • Schizophrenia • Self-esteem • Self-injury • Somatisation & co
Mr Amit in RUGBY
Head injury • Spinal injury • Spinal fracture • Brain tumours • Spinal tumours • Spinal infection • CNS infections • Peripheral nerve injuries • Chronic pain • Paralysis • Spinal degenerative disc disease • Cauda equina syndrome • Post-operative complications in brain and spinal surgery Additional website: https://www.midlandsspineclinic.co.uk
Mrs Sharma in LEEDS
All benign gynaecology issues • All matters related to assisted conception • All matters related to reproductive medicine and surgery • All matters related to first trimester of pregnancy • Civil cases only I retired from clinical practice on the 1st of April 2024 and now am in full-time medico-legal practice. I am a medico-legal expert responsible to the Court. Whilst an NHS employee I acted for the Defence. In the last 3 years, I have been instructed 5 times by the Defence and 39 times by the Claimant solicitors.
Ms Wybraniec in LONDON
Anna Wybraniec is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years' professional experience in clinical psychology working in the NHS and in private practice in London. She has been involved in preparing medico-legal reports for courts since 2000. She specialises in psychological assessment of personal and criminal injuries following traumatic events, such as: • RTA • Work and industrial accidents • Animal attacks • Physical and sexual assaults • Violence • Emotional and physical abuse • Robberies • Harassment • Medical ne...
Dr Collighan in NORWICH
Pain management, especially neuromodulation • CRPS • Spinal & neuropathic pain Consulting at: (i) The Chaucer Hospital, Canterbury ; (ii) The Spencer Private Hospital, Margate ; (iii) One Ashford Hospital, Ashford .
Dr Cullen in email contact only
Personal injury: • PTSD • Depression • Chronic pain & medically unexplained symptoms • Exacerbation of pre-existing mental illness • Traumatic brain injury • Neuropsychiatry • Criminal: • Fitness to plead • Mens rea assessments • Drug & alcohol assessments • CICA assessments • Housing: • Disability & vulnerability due to mental illness • Capacity: • Testamentary capacity • Assessments for LPA
Dr Dolin in GORING-BY-SEA
Pain medicine • Pain management of acute and chronic pain • Post-surgical and post-traumatic pain • Neuropathic pain • Visceral pain • Chronic musculoskeletal pain • Chronic primary pain • Complex regional pain syndrome • Fibromyalgia • Neck pain • Mid back pain • Low back pain • Whiplash injury pain • Expertise in diagnosis, causation, treatment, prognosis and assessment of work and leisure prospects from the chronic pain perspective Consults in Goring-by-Sea, Chichester, London and Scotland
Dr Thrasher in HOOK NORTON
Specialist expertise in the assessment & treatment of reactions to personal injury (accidents, medical negligence, assault), including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression & chronic fatigue • Provision of medico-legal reports, specialising in psychological assessment of emotional reactions (post-traumatic stress, depression, panic, anxiety) following a range of traumas (e.g. road traffic accidents, medical negligence, train crashes, assault, accidents at work)
Dr Lucas in STANMORE
Expert in the field of chronic pain management • Assessment of the impact & consequences of chronic pain • Psychological assessment & treatment of chronic pain patients
Dr Gould in LONDON
Psychological assessments of: 1. Civil/personal injury such as accidents and medical negligence 2. Employment law, including the Equality Act, racial discrimination, fitness to work and Occupational Mandated Psychological Assessments 3. Immigration and asylum 4. Vulnerable witness and special measures 5. Adult mental health, and especially PTSD Working in particular with: • Media, TV, journalists • Aviation psychology and neuropsychology • Police and emergency services • Military and veterans • Criminal Injuries Comp...
Dr Simpson in LEEDS
40 years managing chronic pain • Post-traumatic/plexus pain • Headache/facial • Whiplash • Post-surgical • Spinal/CES • Cancer • Post-amputation • Nerve blocks • Pain interventions • Spinal blocks • Epidurals • Implantable spinal systems • Neuropathic pain/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome • Pelvic pain Additional email: [email protected]
Dr Pradhan in BIRMINGHAM
Psychopathology & psychiatric disorders • Trauma sequelae (psychiatry, including personal injury) • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Personality disorder • Criminal responsibility (psychiatric assessment) • Fitness to plead (psychiatric assessment) • Dangerous & risk assessment (psychiatric) • Crime victims (psychiatry) • Offender assessment (psychiatric) • Witness assessment & testamentary capacity • Criminal behaviour • Child & family cases (custody cases) • Psychiatric care & rehabilitating • D...
Dr Woo in LONDON
Dr Woo is a Consultant in Pain Medicine at King's College Hospital. He obtained his medical degree with honours and multiple prizes from UCL, and an MSc in Pain Management from Edinburgh. He was Lead Advanced Pain Trainer for pain trainees, and Examiner for the Faculty of Pain Medicine. He has published in various peer-reviewed journals on all aspects of pain, and is a reviewer for such journals. He accepts instructions for all aspects of pain. He is based in London, but can travel on request.
Professor Watkin in SUTTON
I have acted as a medical expert for urological conditions for over 10 years. These include advice on breach of duty, causation, condition and prognosis, and coroner's court. Specific conditions include: • Urological oncology and delayed diagnosis • Genito-urethral surgery • Bladder and prostate disorders • Stone disease • Trauma • Urological complications of gynaecology and childbirth • Urinary incontinence • Chronic pelvic pain
Dr Shmueli in LONDON
Since 1993 I have provided assessments & consultations on a variety of criminal & civil matters, including: • Assessments of personal injury following road traffic & industrial accidents • Adjustment disorder • Pain disorder • Assessments of neuropsychological functioning • Assessments of suggestibility & fitness to plead • All aspects of family law • Emphasis is given to presenting the complexities of the clinical situation with sufficient clarity so that it may be understood within a legal framework whilst simultaneously not compromis...
Dr Armstrong in SOUTHAMPTON
Diagnosis & management of rheumatic disorders, including inflammatory arthritis, connective tissue diseases, soft-tissue rheumatic disorders & occupation-related musculoskeletal symptoms & disorders • Bone disease, including osteoporosis & muscle diseases • Trauma-related rheumatic problems (including whiplash) • Matters relating to anti-rheumatic drugs, including DMARD, NSAID, corticosteroids & immunosuppressive drugs • Spinal pain • Chronic pain syndromes & fibromyalgia • CRPS • Medical/clinical negligence
Dr Davies in CARDIFF
Appointments at Cardiff, as well as Swansea, Carmarthen, Bristol and London. 26 years' consultant level experience • MRCPsych examinations passed and CUBS accredited • Usual availability 6-8 weeks • Fees £320/hour+VAT Adult psychiatry • Liaison psychiatry • Psychiatric reactions to illness and trauma, including PTSD and depression • Psychiatric aspects of chronic pain - somatoform disorders
Dr Blandford in CLACTON-ON-SEA
Adult psychological assessment for civil & criminal court proceedings: • Cognitive & intellectual functioning (e.g. IQ) • Daily adaptive/social functioning • Capacity & fitness to plead • Executive functioning (e.g. adaptive behaviour, abstract thinking, mental flexibility, problem solving, planning, inhibition & social behaviour) • Malingering • Memory • Suggestibility & compliance • Personality disorders & clinical syndromes • Dementing processes • Affective conditions (e.g. anxiety disorders, depression, PTS
Dr Chase in WOKING
Early pregnancy and miscarriage management • Colposcopy and abnormal cervical cytology • Gynaecological ultrasound (transvaginal and abdominal) • Pelvic pain, fibroids and endometriosis • Menstrual disorders and menopause • Laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .
Mr Iles in MANCHESTER
Consultant Urogynaecologist and Clinical Lead of a tertiary urogynaecology and mesh centre • Expertise in female pelvic floor disorders, including urinary incontinence, prolapse and voiding dysfunction • Particular expertise in mesh complications (pain, erosion, functional sequelae) and severe perineal trauma • Provides clear, CPR-compliant medicolegal reports in personal injury and clinical negligence cases
Dr Logan in CHESTER
Chronic pain management • Assessment of pain of persistent nature with regards to diagnosis, treatment prognosis & recommendations for further treatment with costings & delivery of such treatment • Personal injury • Back pain, neck pain & nerve pain • Chronic post-traumatic, post-surgical and chronic primary pain Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil Expert Certificate
Dr Mehrez in MILTON KEYNES
Personal injury • Chronic pain • Whiplash injury • Medical negligence • CRPS • Widespread pain • Back pain • Neck pain • Spinal pain • Surgical pain • Fibromyalgia • Pelvic pain • Nerve pain • Scar pain • Peripheral neuropathy Also at: (i) Three Shires Hospital, The Avenue, Cliftonville, Northampton , NN1 5DR. (ii) The New Foscote Hospital, 2 Foscote Rise, Banbury , OX16 9XP.
Professor Monteiro in MANCHESTER
Personal injury, road traffic accidents • Accidental injuries • Workplace injuries • Mental health and deafness • Assessment of clients with linguistic differences, i.e. different spoken languages with interpreters • Medico-legal reports on individuals on the autistic spectrum (provides an ASC outpatient clinic) • Reports for industrial tribunals on deafness and tinnitus • Reports for health insurance claims • Fitness to work • Military psychiatry • Remote assessments • Assessments at other venues by negotiation
Dr McCarthy in BRISTOL
I provide clinical psychology expert witness reports for court in the areas of personal injury and medical negligence involving children and adolescents. The reports assess the impact of traumatic events on the psychological functioning of children, the nature of the injury suffered and give recommendations for treatment. I provide clinical psychology expert witness reports for court proceedings involving public and private legal cases involving the care and upbringing of children and adolescents.
Dr Jacobson in BECKENHAM
I have special interests in the fields of: • Neuropsychiatry • Affective disorders, including bipolar disorder • Psychiatric disorders following accidents, including post-traumatic stress disorder • Chronic pain • Neuropsychiatric sequelae of head injury • Brain damage in children & adults • Assessment of capacity
Dr Mahmood in NORTHAMPTON
General adult psychiatry • PTSD • Trauma
Dr McKay in LONDON
General adult psychiatry • Liaison psychiatry • Neuropsychiatry • Psychiatric injury • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Chronic pain • Somatic symptom disorder • Functional neurological disorder Only in cases of personal injury and only instructed via solicitors.
Dr Green in CHIGWELL
Dr Alice Green has extensive experience of working in crisis and acute adult mental health within the NHS, as well as running an independent practice, providing expert witness services and specialist psychological consultation and therapy. Medico-legal work includes psychological assessments and expert witness psychology reports, specialising in the field of personal injury and clinical negligence, including psychometric testing. Expert witness training was undertaken at the British Psychological Society. Dr Green is a guest lecturer at UCL and Roehampton Universities on the Clinical/C...
Dr Siddaway in SHEFFIELD
• Trauma, stress and medical psychology (including chronic pain) • Chair, British Psychological Society Expert Witness Advisory Group • Regularly instructed in complex and high-value claims; accepts instructions for personal injury, clinical negligence, immigration and employment cases • Approximately 100 expert reports per year (55% claimant, 40% defendant, 5% joint) • Assessment of children, adolescents and adults • CPR-compliant, meticulous, evidence-based assessments • Nationwide and remote assessments (Northern England, Lon...

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