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Specialises in

• Pain medicine

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Dr Maissara Al-Rikabi is an experienced Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia consultant at Kings College Hospitals Foundation Trust. He is an expert with 23 years of experience, including international experience in complex chronic pain cases, including shoulder, hip, knee and ankle pain, radiculopathy pain, headaches and migraines, abdomen and pelvic pain, cervical, thoracic and lower back pain, complex regional pain syndrome, whiplash.
With international experience working in pain medicine and anaesthesia in Canada, the Middle East, Belgium, Ireland, the USA and the U.K. He achieved the Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) and the Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist degrees in the USA.

Dr Al-Rikabi specialises in managing acute and chronic pain with a specialist interest in complex regional pain syndrome, post-amputation pain and phantom limb pain, abdomen and pelvic pain, cervical, thoracic and lower back pain and whiplash injuries. He provides assessment for clinical negligence and personal injury cases.
He is an advanced specialist in ultrasound-guided interventional procedures, including Diagnostic/Therapeutic Facet/Medial Branch Blocks for Neck, Thoracic and Lower Back Pain, Radiofrequency Denervation to Medial Branch Blocks Nerve Roots and Peripheral Nerves, Neuraxial blocks: Caudal; Interlaminar Epidural and Transforaminal Epidural, Botox injections for Myofascial Muscular Pain and Migraines, Regional Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Sympathetic Blocks, Shoulder; Hip; Elbow and Knee Injections, Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy for Chronic Pain and Aesthetic Medicine.

Diagnostic/Therapeutic Facet/Medial Branch Blocks for Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar and Sacral Back Pain with or without Radiofrequency Denervation
Selective nerve roots injection with or without pulsed RF
Sacro-iliac joint injection with or without radiofrequency denervation
Cervical, thoracic and lumbar Interlaminar Epidural and Transforaminal Epidural
Caudal epidural
Sacro-coccygeal injection with or without pulsed radiofrequency.
Botox injections for Myofascial Muscular Pain and Migraines
Dr Al-Rikabi has a multi-modal approach to pain management using interventional procedures and pharmacotherapy. He provides services for headache, neck pain, back pain, referral pain to arm and leg, pelvic pain and cancer pain.


Qualifications & Professional Memberships

MCC
FCAI
AFRCA
EDAIC
EDPM
FIPP (USA)
CIPS (USA)

Memberships
RCoA UK
General Medical Council
CAI (FCAI)
ESF (EDAIC) Belgium European Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
WIP (FIPP) Member-FIPP USA World Institution of Pain/ Fellowship
EPF (EDPM) European Pain Federation Belgium
ICS Membership UK British Intensive Care Society
WAPMU Member of the World Academy of Pain Medicine Ultrasonography USA
SIS Member of Spine Intervention Society
ASRA Member of the American Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine
CUBS Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate
American Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice Ultrasound CIPS (USA)
American Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice Fluoroscope FIPP (USA)
European Federation Diploma in pain medicine (Belgium) EFIC
European Pain Diploma of acute and chronic pain Part 1 Switzerland
Fellowship Of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland FCAI (Dublin)
European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Part 2 (Vienna, Austria)
European Diploma of Anaesthesia Part1 Basic and Clinical (Liège, Belgium)
Fellow Obstetric and Pain Management Anaesthesia, Dublin/ Ireland
Specialist Training in Anaesthesia, ICU and Pain- Liege, Belgium
Certificate of Registration Medical Council of Canada LMCC
Medical License Bridging Program, University of Ottawa

Areas of interest

Diagnostic/Therapeutic Facet/Medial Branch Blocks for Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar and Sacral Back Pain with or without Radiofrequency
Sacro-iliac joint injection with or without radiofrequency denervation, , Sacro-coccygeal injection with or without pulsed radiofrequency.
Botox injections for Myofascial Muscular Pain and Migraines, Shoulder and Neck pain, Back and upper and lower limb referral pain, Transformational selective nerve block
, Refractory Angina Management, Post-Surgical Pain
Neuropathic Pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Headaches and Migraines
Fibromyalgia, Myofascial Pain including Trigeminal neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia and, temporomandibular joint dysfunction., Abdomen and Pelvic Pain Testicular pain
Prostatitis, Bladder pain, IV Lidocaine Infusion

Medical secretaries

• Medical secretaries
• alrikabi.painmanaagement@gmail.com