Dr Farrah Ayob
Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia
MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA
Specialises in
I have practiced Medicine for 12 years. My special interest within Anaesthesia is Pain Medicine. I trained in various London Hospitals in Advanced Pain Fellowship, Royal Marsden Hospital specifically for treating cancer related pain conditions as well as in Toronto. I specialised in ultrasound and X-ray guided interventional procedures for various pain related conditions.
I offer treatments including nerve block injections, radiofrequency ablation procedures, Racz catheter neurolysis, botox injections for migraines and chemotherapy induced neuropathies. I also deal with complex pain issues, including medication management, widespread pain, central pain and acute pain management. I work with multi-disciplinary team for delivering holistic.
To date I have performed over 1,200 pain interventions, including over 200 radiofrequency rhizotomies and pulsed neurostimulation procedures, 400 epidural injections, botox therapies for chemotherapy induced neuropathies and over 400 central plexus and nerve blocks.
Treatment information
Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Farrah Ayob at Spire include:
Pain management
Other treatments
- Acute and chronic back pain
- Botox for migraine
- Cancer related pain
- Catheter guided epidural neurolysis
- Coccydynia (tailbone pain)
- CRPS
- Facet joint arthropathies
- Facet joint medial branch block
- Facet joint radiofrequency denervation
- Fibromyalgia
- Joint injection with cortisone or hyaluronic acid
- Joint pain
- Migraine
- Musculoskeletal pain
- Neck pain
- Nerve root injection
- Neuromodulation
- Neuropathic pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Piriformis syndrome
- Post-stroke pain
- Post-surgical pain
- Qutenza therapy for painful neuropathies.
- Sacroiliac joint injections
- Sacroiliac joint radiofrequency denervation’s
- Sciatica
- Spinal conditions in Athletes
- Spinal disc herniation
- Spinal pain
- Spinal stenosis neurogenic pain
- Spondylolisthesis
- Sympathetic nerve blocks
- Transformational epidurals
- Visceral abdominal and pelvic pain
- Whiplash injury pain
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Important information about Covid-19 tests
Spire London East Hospital is only able to provide Covid-19 tests to patients undergoing surgery at our hospital. Covid-19 testing or antibody tests are not available as a standalone service.
Additional information
Qualification and professional memberships
MBBS / Kings College London / 2007
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Degree for Medical Physicians
Professional memberships
International Association of the Study of Pain
Faculty of Pain Medicine of Royal College of Anesthesia
British Pain Society
Research and publications
I contribute as an editorial or scientific journal reviewer for pain scientific journals (Cureus).
Articles
Preoperative Smoking Cessation as Part of Surgical Prehabilitation. Dong An, Farrah Ayob, Wesley Rajaleelan, J Wong. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia. 66(4), pp 476–479, Jan 2019.
Pre-operative Biomarkers and Imaging tests to predict Post-operative Delirium: a Systematic Review. Farrah Ayob, Enoch Lam, George Ho, Frances Chung, Hossam El-Beheiry, Jean Wong. BMC Anesthesiology (2019) 19: 25.
Do Caudal Blocks cause complications post hypospadias surgery? Farrah Ayob, Richard Arnold. Editorial: Anaesthesia 2016. 71: 759-63.
Current NHS posts
Whipp Cross Hospital, Barts NHS Trust
Personal profile
I enjoy health and fitness including swimming, road cycling, yoga and nutrition.
Financial interests
Contact information
| paincare.enquiries@gmail.com | |
| Private secretary | Paula Sumptio or Beatriz Hernandez |
| Private secretary telephone | 07727270287 |
| Private secretary email | p.sumption@hotmail.com |