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Mr Vinay Ketkar

Musculoskeletal and Sports Physician

Mr Vinay Ketkar

Musculoskeletal and Sports Physician

About Mr Vinay Ketkar

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Dr Vinay Ketkar has worked at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust since 2004 and has clinics and injection/ procedure lists at the hospital every week. He also works in the Functional Restoration Program for Chronic Pain His main interest is in the non -surgical treatment of back pain and spinal problems including coccyx pain and sacro-iliac joint dysfunction. He also has extensive experience of treating other musculoskeletal and sports injuries using a variety of techniques including injections, shockwave and regenerative treaments such as PRP and Prolotherapy 

Dr Ketkar trained at the University of Birmingham in the West Midlands. He has worked at Birmingham University, East Lancashire Hospitals and for the Armed Forces at the RRU RAF Cosford in the past and also has sports medicine experience in working for British Gymnastics, GB Para-archery and is the Chief Medical Officer for Warwickshire County Cricket Club and team physician for Leicester City Football Club Women's Team.

He is a tutor on the Spinal module of the UCLAN (University of Central Lancashire) MSC in Musculoskeletal medicine course and was previously a tutor and module lead for the B.I.M.M. (British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine) course and examiner for the DMSMED examination in London. 

Clinical Interests

  • Non surgical interventions for Back pain
  • X ray guided Spinal interventions including epidural, nerve root block coccyx and sacroiliac joint injections
  • Ultrasound guided peripheral injections for arthritic and other joint pain
  • Regenerative treatments for musculoskeletal pain including Prolotherapy and PRP

Professional Memberships

  • Spinal Intervention Society (USA)
  • Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK and Ireland)
  • British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine 

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Languages spoken

English

GMC number

3462023
A General Medical Council (GMC) number is a unique ID that shows a specialist is officially registered and approved to practice medicine in the UK.

Qualifications

MBChB, MRCGP,DRCOG, DPCR, MSOM, DipSEM, MFSEM

Professional memberships

  • Spinal Intervention Society (USA)
  • Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK and Ireland)
  • British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine 

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