Dr Sandesha Kothari

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine. Regional Advisor Pain Medicine

MBBS, DA, DNB, MNAMS, FRCA, FFPMRCA

"The new facilities of ambulatory care enable me to provide pain interventions procedures for patients waiting a long time for their treatment. The staff are very helpful and friendly."


Specialises in

  • Chronic pain management
  • Cervical and lumbar pain
  • Neck and shoulder pain
  • Nerve pain
  • Spinal pain

I am a highly skilled and experienced Pain Specialist with expertise across a full spectrum of chronic pain conditions and its treatment. This includes management of acute and chronic spinal pain, cervical and lumbar pain, sciatica pain, nerve pain, neuropathic pain, slipped discs, post surgical pain, pelvic pain, endometriosis pain, vulvodynia, neck and shoulder pain, low back pain, complex regional pain syndrome, shingles pain, facet joint pain, musculoskeletal pain.

I also use pain medicines, wide range of evidence based pain reducing interventional techniques under image guidance including epidurals, facet medical branch blocks, radiofrequency, nerve blocks and multidisciplinary pain management strategies.

My special interests include spinal pain, neuropathic pain (nerve pain) and pelvic pain. I run a specialist multidisciplinary pelvic pain clinic at NHS at St Thomas’ Hospital.

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General Medical Council Number: 4659893

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Sandesha Kothari at Spire include:

Pain management

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Additional information

FFPMRCA / UK / 2006
Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine and Royal College of Anaesthetists


Professional memberships

General Medical Council

Royal College of Anaesthetists

Faculty of Pain Medicine

British Pain Society

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Private secretary Melanie Hales
Private secretary telephone 07984 138982
Private secretary email melaniehales7@gmail.com