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About Dr Joshua Adedokun
Personal Profile
Dr Joshua Adedokun is a Consultant in Pain Management at various Circle Health Group hospitals. These include:
He has extensive experience in a wide range of chronic pain conditions, such as:
- Cervical spinal
- Neck pain
- Whiplash syndromes
- Brachialgia (pain travelling down the arm)
- Thoracic spinal
- Lumbar spinal
- Sciatic pain
His experience also includes other chronic pain conditions, such as:
- Atypical facial pain or 'persistent idiopathic facial pain'
- Trigeminal neuralgia (a condition causing sudden, shock-like pain in the face)
- Post-herpetic neuralgia (nerve pain following a shingles rash healing)
- Complex headaches
- Complex regional pain syndrome (a condition causing continuous burning pain in the arm or leg)
- Cancer pain
- Musculoskeletal injuries/pain
- Repetitive strain injuries
- Fibromyalgia (a condition causing muscle pain, extreme tiredness and problems with sleep)
- Chronic myofascial pain syndrome (a condition where trigger points form in the muscles and connective tissue causing pain)
- Shoulder pain
- Abdominal pain
- Pelvic pain syndromes, including sacrococcygeal pain (discomfort around the base of the spine)
Dr Adedokun became a 'Fellow' of the 'College of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland' in 2004. In the same year, he also became a 'Fellow' of the 'Royal College of Anaesthetists'. He was granted a fellowship by assessment of the 'Faculty of Pain Medicine' of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2009.
Dr Adedokun was appointed as a 'Consultant in Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine' at the Pennine Acute NHS Trust (North Manchester General Hospital) in May 2007.
He is actively involved in local foundation and higher specialist pain training. He is an active member of the 'Pain Training Action Group' and organises the annual 'Chronic Pain Study Day' for trainees and GP's. He is also a member of the 'Editorial Board of the Journal of Observational Pain Medicine'.
Clinical Interests:
- Management of neuropathic pain especially 'complex regional pain syndrome'
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Chronic abdominal pain syndromes
- Musculoskeletal pain syndromes
- Whiplash syndromes
- Back and sciatic pain
- Radiofrequency denervation techniques for spinal and nerve root pains
Professional Memberships
- British Pain Society
- World Institute of Pain
- International Association for the Study of Pain
- International Spine Intervention Society
- American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
- British Medical Association
- Northwest Pain Society
- North of England Pain Society
- Society of Expert Witnesses
- Expert Witness Institute
