Tendon Pain Clinic

Tendon Pain

Tendon pain is an often unrecognised injury diagnosis for patients, and therefore we specialise in the accurate recognition and treatment protocols for this domain. Tendons are thick, tough connective tissues that connect muscle to bone. Injured tendons can produce severe pain on movement. These injuries are often misdiagnosed and poorly treated. Common tendon pain can come from tendon tears, tenosynovitis (inflammation of the protective sheath surrounding the tendon), or tendinopathy. Tendon pain can be debilitating and commonly affects areas such as the shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, buttocks, and back of the heels.

Symptoms include:

Pain with movement, especially before activity
Weakness
Stiffness

To treat you, we can give you sound advice and dispel some of the myths around these injuries. We can reduce your pain, and help your tendon repair and heal. We can see you at our office on Harley Street, London, or at BUPA Harpenden, Hertfordshire, One Hatfield Hospital, Hertfordshire’s newest private hospital, or at your home for home visits. I can oversee a prescribed plan of exercise rehabilitation for you, plus technical exercise coaching to help improve your exercise techniques and thus avoid future flare-ups. As a team we can offer a full service of assessment and diagnosis, shock wave therapy, or corticosteroid injections.

You can visit our website directly at: https://tendonpainclinic.co.uk/

“Motion is lotion; having someone prod you while you lie down will not make you better”

Meet the Team

Manoj Sood

BSc.(Hons) MB. FRCS(Eng.) FRCS(Tr. & Orth.)

Manoj is a Senior Specialist Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and a respected hip, knee and sports specialist. He has a keen interest in the management of tendinopathies and is the founder of the clinic.

Manoj graduated from Guys Hospital and trained in Orthopaedic Surgery at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and abroad at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and at The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He runs a Specialist Hip and Knee Surgery practice in London, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire as well practising at The Tendon Pain Clinic, Harley Street, London.

He is passionate about offering patients the whole spectrum of treatments for their problem and to provide individualised treatment plans that take into account work and leisure activities. He is known for not giving up even with very complex or hard to treat conditions.

Manoj is an Honorary Senior lecturer at The University of Hertfordshire, an Examiner at The Royal College of Surgeons of England and a Sub-Editor at The Journal of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery. He is on the expert panel for Arthritis Care, a leading arthritis charity. He is active in research and regularly publishes and presents work nationally and internationally.

Patient-centred excellent care is at the heart of Manoj’s practice.

Joseph Smiles

BSc

Joe is a sports and exercise practitioner and personal trainer who helps our clients to strengthen and condition themselves whilst recovering from tendinopathies. He has run a personal training business since 2003 and specialises in injury rehabilitation leading to performance training for sport, increased strength, conditioning, and fitness levels.

He has a particular interest in life-style coaching for weight loss, involving a holistic approach with changes to thinking and behaviour, diet and nutrition, and exercise-related training prescriptions. He prepares programmes that are individualised to client’s life-styles. Joe has a BSc in sport and exercise science, and diplomas in life coaching, performance coaching, and sport psychology.

Jon Wride

BSc.(Hons) AACP HCPC

Jonathan is a specialist physiotherapist passionate about the rehabilitation of tendon problems. As well as working at The Tendon Pain Clinic he currently runs a busy second opinion tendon clinic in North London for both elite athletes and the everyday person.

Jonathan obtained a 1st class honours degree in Physiotherapy from Cardiff University and has since worked extensively in both NHS and private settings. He has recently consulted for the Bedfordshire NHS to successfully create and implement innovative treatment pathways for resistant tendinopathy problems. Currently, Jonathan is a lecturer and national trainer in shockwave therapy for ElectroMedicalSystems, helping teach clinicians on how to integrate best evidence based tendon management into clinical practice.

Jonathan has a keen interest in diagnostic ultrasound imaging and is currently studying for his post-graduate certificate in musculoskeletal sonography. Jonathan is an accredited member of the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists. He is also one of only a handful of clinicians in the UK to practice Intra-Muscular Stimulation, (a highly specialised medical dry needling technique) for chronic pain management.

Jonathan is a firm believer in creating simple individualised rehabilitation programmes that can be easily incorporated into daily life, for maximum effectiveness.

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