Dr Mowafak Abdelghani

Dr Abdelghani is a Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

He is the Clinical Lead for Chronic Pain Services at Oxford Road Campus, Trafford General Hospital and Altrincham General Hospital after graduating from Medical School in Cairo, Egypt and completing his Masters of Science and a 4 year training rotation in Ain-Shams University, Cairo.

He joined the North West Rotation as a Specialist Registrar and completed the 5 year specialist program. His Advanced Pain Fellowship was successfully completed in the prestigious Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in the Imperial School, London.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine by examination. He has published chapters on multiple topics of Pain Medicine in 2 books published in the UK and the USA.

He has a well-established interest and role in post-graduate education and healthcare management, and is the Chair of the North West Pain Group, an association of Pain Medicine Consultants in the North West Region.

Useful links

• www.piccadillymedical.com

Simple procedures:

• Trigger points injections
• Tender points injections
• High dose capsaicin patch application
• Lignocaine infusions

X-ray guided procedures:

• Epidural; cervical lumbar, caudal, transforaminal
• Nerve root blocks
• Sacroiliac joint injections
• Facet joint/diagnostic medial branch blocks
• Radiofrequency ablation of lumbar or cervical medial branches
• Pulsed radiofrequency to nerve roots, trunks and peripheral nerves
• Sympathetic blocks with or without radiofrequency
• Interventions for migraine and other craniofacial pain conditions
• Knee; intra-articular and knee nerve blocks/radiofrequency
• Hips; intra-articular and hip nerve blocks/radiofrequency
• Scar/neuroma injections
• Ganglion impar blocks

Ultrasound guided procedures:

• Greater occipital nerve blocks
• Supraorbital nerve blocks
• Suprascapular nerve blocks
• Piriformis blocks 
• Pudendal nerve blocks
• ACNES blocks for abdominal pain
• Genito-femoral nerve blocks
• Inguinal nerve blocks
• Elbow injections
• Coccyx injections

• Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthesia (London)
• Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine (London)
• Member of the British Pain Society
• Member of the American Society of Regional Anaesthesia, Pain Chapter