Dr Maissara Al-Rikabi

Dr Maissara Al-Rikabi is an experienced Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia at Kings College Hospitals Foundation Trust. He has 22 years of experience in both specialist fields, including international experience from Canada, Middle east, Belgium, Ireland, USA and the U.K. He achieved both the American Board Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) and the American Board-Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist (CIPS) degrees in the USA. Dr Al-Rikabi offers a multi-modal approach to pain management. Providing consultations and medical management with special interest in spinal interventions, he offers a wide range of interventional procedures to patients:

Diagnostic/Therapeutic Facet/Medial Branch Blocks for Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar and Sacral Back Pain with or without Radiofrequency Denervation
Selective nerve roots injection with or without pulsed RF
Sacro-iliac joint injection with or without radiofrequency denervation
Cervical, thoracic and lumbar Interlaminar Epidural and Transforaminal Epidural
Caudal epidural
Sacro-coccygeal injection with or without pulsed radiofrequency.
Botox injections for Myofascial Muscular Pain and Migraines
Stellate ganglion, Thoracic sympathetic ganglion, Splanchnic and Lumbar sympathetic block and impar ganglion block.
Superior hypogastric plexus block.
Sacroiliac joint radiofrequency ablation.
Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Blocks with or without Pulsed radiofrequency.
Shoulder, Elbow (tennis and golf elbow), wrist, hand, hip, Knee, ankle and foot Injections.
Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy for Chronic Pain.
Botox and Dermal Fillers for Aesthetic Medicine

Dr Al-Rikabi has a multi-modal approach to pain management using interventional procedures and pharmacotherapy. He provides services for headache, neck pain, back pain, referral pain to arm and leg, pelvic pain and cancer pain.