Dr Oliver Seyfried is a Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia with expertise in the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of acute and chronic pain.

His pain practice within the NHS and private sector focuses on the comprehensive non-surgical and biopsychosocial management of a wide range of painful conditions. He has extensive experience with degenerative spinal and joint pain.

His particular interest is the management of neuropathic pain in the arm and leg and the management of osteoarthritic knee pain for which there is no surgical recourse.

Areas of expertise

• Mechanical neck and back pain
• Cervical and lumbar radicular pain
• Thoracic spinal and chest wall pain
• Coccydynia
• Scar pain
• Peripheral nerve injuries and neuropathies
• Phantom limb and stump pain
• Post-herpetic neuralgia
• Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
• Hoffa's fat pad pain

Current and recent appointments

• Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia (Clinical Lead) at St George's Hospital, London

Publications, lectures and teachings

• He takes an active interst in clinical research and has been published in peer-reviewed journals writing on back pain and pharmacotherapy
• He has presented at national conferences
• He acts as educational supervisor and clinical tutor taking an active role in undergraduate and postgraduate education within the teaching hospital setting

Society memberships

• Royal College of Anaesthetists
• The Faculty of Pain Medicine
• British Pain Society
• Worshipful Society of Apothecaries