Sam has worked as a Senior Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist for many years in sports, the private sector and NHS in Oxford and London. In 2017 he spent two years working at renowned clinics in Wellington, New Zealand and both Melbourne and Sydney in Australia.
Sam now works as an Extended Scope Practitioner (ESP) and First Contact Practitioner within primary and intermediate NHS care settings. His work involves complex patient management, ordering ultrasound, x-ray and magnet resonance imaging (MRI) and working closely with medical General Practitioners (GP) and Consultants in Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Pain clinics.
Sam is a fully qualified Independent Prescriber (IP) and also qualified to provide intra-articular and muscular corticosteroid injections for a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions.
This includes:
Shoulder impingement / bursitis
Shoulder arthritis
Frozen shoulder
Acromioclavicular pain
Tennis and golfers elbow
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Wrist osteoarthritis
DeQuervains tenosynovitis
Thumb and finger osteoarthritis
Trigger finger
Greater trochanteric hip pain (hip bursitis
Knee osteoarthritis
Ankle osteoarthritis
Morton’s neuroma
Plantar fasciitis
Metatarsal phalangeal joint pain
“The most refreshing thing about my job is meeting new people and helping them get back to doing the things they love. I make every patient realise that I care about them, their worries and their goals”
