Dr Rishi Khanna

Dr Rishi Khanna

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management

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Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management

Expert witness training completed

Dr Khanna specialises in spinal, abdominopelvic and neuropathic pain, with areas of interest including injections and medical management of spinal pain, sciatica, spinal stenosis, nerve pain and spinal cord stimulation. His other clinical interests include post surgical/traumatic pain, chronic primary pain and visceral pain conditions. 

Dr Khanna is able to opine on a range of areas including quantum, causation and condition and prognosis, including chronic pain after surgery and the medical management of pain following a personal injury. 

Dr Khanna graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1998, trained in West Yorkshire and is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management.  He has been Clinical Lead for Pain Management at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford and is currently Clinical Director for Anaesthesia, Pain, Theatres, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine.  

He specialises in spinal, abdominopelvic and neuropathic pain, with areas of interest including injections and medical management of spinal pain, sciatica, spinal stenosis, nerve pain and spinal cord stimulation. His other clinical interests include post surgical/traumatic pain, chronic primary pain and visceral pain conditions. 

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He is available for consultations on a weekly basis in Bingley, and also holds clinics in Manchester and Birmingham. 

LocationSpecialismDate available
BingleyPain MedicineWeekly
ManchesterPain Medicine12 June
BirminghamPain MedicineQuarterly

Chronic back pain from a medicolegal perspective

by Dr Rishi Khanna, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management

Back pain is extremely common; only the common cold occurs more frequently (1, 2). The annual incidence of back pain is around 15–20%, and up to 85% of people will be affected at some point during their lifetime (1, 3-7). It has an enormous physical and financial cost, as it restricts function, participation in daily […]

The medicolegal challenges of chronic pain: from diagnosis to treatment

Chronic pain is extremely common, affecting as many as 20% of adults in the UK at any one time. Chronic pain conditions are amongst the commonest reasons for disablement, with low back and neck pain consistently being the leading causes.

The medicolegal challenges of spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of pain

Current treatment options for chronic pain are limited in terms of their efficacy, particularly over the long term. Recent research indicates that neuromodulation, including spinal cord stimulation, may offer genuine hope to patients with chronic neuropathic pain.