Dr Husham Al-Shather
Consultant in Pain Medicine in Berkshire
MBChB FFPMRCA FRCA EDRA PGCert Peri-Op. Medicine (UCL)
GMC: 6145183
Dr Husham Al-Shather areas of expertise:
Professional statement
Dr Husham Al-Shather is a highly renowned and experienced consultant in pain medicine, who specialises in back pain, neck pain, headache, sciatica, musculoskeletal pain, as well as fibromyalgia but to mention a few. His main areas of research interest lie in complex regional pain syndrome, widespread pain, new pain medications and the use of ultrasound in the general field of pain medicine.
To-date, Dr Al-Shather has obtained a vast amount of experience in relation to the management of various acute and chronic pain conditions, and offers his patients a wide and comprehensive variety of both interventional and non-interventional treatments for patients suffering from acute and/or chronic pain. Since joining The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as a consultant in pain management, Dr Al-Shather has developed an excellent reputation when it comes to providing patients with optimal clinical care.
Thus far in his medical career, he has distributed numerous amounts of injections and a whole host of procedures with no reports of infection, major complication or readmission to hospital. He provides a substantial amount of treatments, with the main ones including steroid injections, botox injection, epidural injections for neck, upper and lower back pain, nerve blocks, sympathetic blocks, radiofrequency treatment of shoulder, hip and knee joints as well as radiofrequency treatment of facets and sacroiliac joints.
He successfully completed higher specialist training in both pain management and anaesthetics at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in London, and undertook his training in advanced pain at St George's Hospital and Ashford & St Peter's Trust prior to completing further training in regional anaesthesia at Queen Victoria Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.