We are delighted to welcome Dr Rangu (Ranganathan) Iyer to Blackberry Clinic Havant. He is a Pain Management and Musculoskeletal Medicine Consultant with over 38 years of experience in acute and chronic pain management.
Rangu was the clinical lead for pain medicine and Clinical Director for Anaesthetics, Intensive Care, Theatre Services and Pain Management Care at the Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS trust before retirement from the NHS. He offers a comprehensive service, starting with expert diagnosis followed up by high quality medical treatment that is complemented by good support from physiotherapists and psychologists.
Qualifications:
Rangu brings a very high level of training and experience to the important task of patient care.
Today, his areas of special clinical expertise include treatment of neck and back pain, fibromyalgia, neuropathic pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and cancer pain.
Along with utilising a full complement of pharmacological treatments for pain, Dr Iyer performs a variety of interventional procedures such as epidural, facet and sacroiliac joint injections, radiofrequency lesioning, and sympathetic and peripheral nerve blocks guided by X-ray and ultrasound. He also is one of the few pain specialists to offer prolotherapy and regenerative therapies for the management of painful difficult to treat soft tissue injuries.
Treatments offered:
Rangu is trauma informed and follows an upstream approach to medicine. He offers a comprehensive list of interventional pain medicine procedures including:
- Steroid injections
- Epidurals into neck, upper and lower back
- Facet joint injections
- Nerve blocks including coeliac and gastric plexus blocks
- Diagnostic back injections
- Sacroiliac joint injections
- Radiofrequency Denervation of coeliac plexus and splanchnic nerves, cervical and lumbar facets and sacroiliac joints
- Peripheral joint injections (shoulder, knee, hip, elbow)
- Prolotherapy injections
- Hypertonic dextrose injections
- Trigger point injections
- Hyaluronic Acid injections
- Ultrasound and x-ray guided injections
- Advice and guidance about Holistic therapies including physiotherapy/psychology/acupuncture/Osteopathic treatments
- IV lidocaine infusions for nerve pain
Prior to joining the NHS, he was commissioned in the British Army as Consultant for Anaesthetics and Resuscitation with special interest in Pain Management and he is the author of a chapter on Post Surgery Pain Syndromes in Textbook of Surgery
Rangu does Medico-legal Reporting on Pain issues especially in Whiplash and CRPS cases.
If you would like to have a consultation with Dr Rangu Iyer, use the contact form on our website or give Blackberry Clinic Havant a call or email.
