Dr Deepak Ravindran

Consultant Pain and Lifestyle Medicine

With over 20 years of specialist experience, Prof. Dr. Deepak Ravindran is a multi-award winning consultant in Pain Medicine who firmly believes that pain conditions should be treated as early as possible, with the appropriate use of multidisciplinary techniques to overcome pain and improve patient quality of life.

His clinic offers a comprehensive evaluation, starting with expert diagnosis and investigations and followed up by high quality bespoke medical treatment plans that is complemented by good support from specialists in Occupational therapy, physiotherapy, Nutrition support and psychology as needed.

He offers interventions such as trigger point injections, epidurals, nerve blocks and botox/steroid injections where appropriate for all kinds of acute postoperative pains as well as more persistent pain such as sciatica, neuropathic pain, back and neck pain and other forms of MSK pain. He uses Xray and Ultrasound guidance for such procedures.

He has completed his undergraduate training from JIPMER, India and his postgraduate training from Oxford. He completed his Pain Fellowship from UCL, London and Royal national orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH).

He is an active physician researcher and holds a Honorary Professor role at Teesside University and is a senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading. He is the author of the Amazon Bestseller “Pain Free Mindset”. He is a passionate educator and ensures that all patients and their families understand their diagnosis and rehabilitation plans. He is a Youtube Cinician Content Creator and provides further information though his Channel

He also is a qualified coach and is an Associate with Peak Health Coaching and is able to bring that skill in supporting not just pain patients but also patients with other long term conditions to create and adhere to their management and treatment plans. He is a qualified lifestyle medicine physician and MSK physician making him one of the few specialists with that triple qualification in Berkshire.

Prof Deepak Ravindran has a trauma informed ‘upstreamist’ approach to pain practice and has helped set up the award winning NHS community pain service in Berkshire (IPASS) in 2015 and the Berkshire Long covid Integrated Service (BLIS) in 2020. He has moved to support primary care with rolling out innovative sustainable delivery models like Group Consultations and Lifestyle medicine from August 2024.