Dr Ajai Seth, Musculoskeletal, Sport & Exercise Medicine
Dr Ajai Seth
Musculoskeletal, Sport & Exercise Medicine
Dr Ajai Seth MBBS, BSc, MSc, MRCS, MRCGP, FFSEM, PGCert Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
Musculoskeletal, Sport & Exercise Medicine
Dr Ajai Seth
Musculoskeletal, Sport & Exercise Medicine MBBS, BSc, MSc, MRCS, MRCGP, FFSEM, PGCert Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
Dr Seth is a recommended Musculoskeletal, Sport & Exercise Medicine
Areas of expertise
- Back pain
- Knee pain
- Chronic fatigue
- Overuse injuries
- Runners' injuries
- Sports injuries
- Ultrasound scanning
Recommendations for Dr Seth
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Recommended by:
byDr Farrah Jawad, Sport & Exercise Medicine Specialist
❝Ajai Seth is a knowledgable and approachable clinician with experience in a number of different sports and musculoskeletal injuries.❞
byMs Erin Lahay, Physiotherapist
❝Dr Ajai Seth is very knowledgeable with a good bedside manner. He's very experienced.❞
byDr Farrah Jawad, Sport & Exercise Medicine Specialist
❝Ajai Seth is a knowledgable and approachable clinician with experience in a number of different sports and musculoskeletal injuries.❞
byMs Erin Lahay, Physiotherapist
❝Dr Ajai Seth is very knowledgeable with a good bedside manner. He's very experienced.❞
Make an appointment
Address
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HCA UK at The Shard
The Shard, 32 St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9BS
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London Bridge Hospital
27 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2PR
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The Institute of Sport Exercise & Health (ISEH)
170 Tottenham, Court Rd, London, W1T 7HA
About Dr Ajai Seth
GMC number: 7021199
Year qualified: 2008
Place of primary qualification: University of London
Dr Ajai Seth is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Consultant based at Pure Sports Medicine, Moorgate in London. Consulting and treating everyone, from the elite athlete to the weekend warrior, he has dedicated his career to helping people with sport and exercise related injury and illness. He believes that everyone deserves the very best treatment for their sporting injuries/illnesses, whether they are an Olympian or a first time runner. His clinical interests include overuse injuries, tendinopathy, hip and groin, ultrasound guided injections, upper limb injuries, hand and wrist and travel medicine. His sporting interests include football, golf, tennis and racket sports.
Dr Seth works with elite sports clubs and teams and is able to apply the same medical principles for his athletes, to the everyday exerciser. He values the time, dedication and determination that people put into their health, and feels they deserve the best medical advice to make the right decisions. He has a holistic approach to treating an injury, taking the time to explore all his patients' needs; physically, mentally and socially.
Dr Seth is one of a small number of consultants in the UK who specialise purely in sports medicine. He has undergone in-depth training to develop a unique clinical skill set. He works with the England Men's Football Development squad, and also for European Tour Golf, UK athletics and Expedition Medicine. He has worked as Brand’s Hatch Track Doctor and has consulted Birmingham City FC and GB Para archery. He has also worked as Ministry of Defence Sports Medicine Consultant and Circle MSK Practitioner.
Dr Seth also works in disability sport and is currently the Chief Medical Officer for Team GB Wheelchair Tennis and the Tennis Foundation, Britain's largest Tennis Charity. He also has a passion for travel and the emerging field of Expedition Medicine, which has seen him accompany medical, scientific and charity expeditions all around the world. He has vast experience in treating musculoskeletal injuries from children and adolescents to veteran exercisers, both male and female.
Areas of expertise
- Achilles tendon
- Ultrasound scanning
- Muscle injury
- Diagnostic ultrasound
- Arthritis
- Chronic fatigue
- Overuse injuries
- Back pain
- Bursitis
- Carpal tunnel
- Ankle pain
- Shockwave therapy
- Chronic pain
- Dance medicine
- Fatigue related symptoms
- Foot and ankle
- Foot pain
- Football medicine
- Golfers elbow
- Groin pain
- Runners' injuries
- Hand and wrist
- Heel pain
- Hip
- Hip disorders
- Impingement
- ITB
- Knee pain
- MSK pathway
- Shoulder injury
- Muscle and joint injuries
- Acupuncture
- Musculoskeletal injury
- Musculoskeletal medicine
- Musculoskeletal ultrasound
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatric medicine
- Plantar fasciitis
- Rotator cuff
- Running injuries
- Sciatica
- Shin splints
- Shoulder
- Shoulder pain
- Tennis elbow
- Shoulder pain and injury
- Sport and exercise medicine
- Sports injuries
- Sports medicine
- Sports trauma
- Stress fractures
- Tendinopathy
- Tendon
- Tendonitis
- Tennis medicine
- Travel medicine
- Upper limb injuries
Frequently asked questions
What are the common symptoms that your patients tend to present with?
The most common symptom would be pain, swelling and a loss of function in their normal movement patterns because they're not moving correctly or it's painful on a certain movement. Patients also present when their sports or their hobby is being affected, whether they are a tennis player or a golf player and they are unable to perform to the level they wanted to play at. Or it's affecting performance at work, particularly with back pain or neck pain or shoulder pain.
What are the treatments that you're able to offer your patients?
The first-line treatment is always rehabilitation, which includes strength-based rehabilitation and gym-based programs which are carefully planned, carefully thought out and tailored to a patient's particular injury and their performance needs. These programs vary between injury to injury and body part to the body part. We work very closely with our physiotherapy team and our strength and conditioning team to make sure that the patient's rehabilitation plan is optimised. That's the first and main line of treatment.
The second would be non-invasive therapies such as shockwave therapy and ultrasound therapies.
Moving on from the non-invasive therapies are slightly more invasive therapies such as injection-based therapies, such as steroids, PRP, hyaluronic acid therapy, high-volume injections, among others.
Lastly, if we feel that surgical intervention is appropriate, we'll send you to the right consultant for the right opinion to make sure unnecessary surgery is avoided and making sure the best outcome occurs.
What are your areas of sub-specialist interest?
I work in a variety of different sporting fields, including elite football. I work with England men's football and I see a lot of knee injuries, hip and groin injuries, and ankle injuries. I also work with British tennis and I'm used to seeing lots of upper limbs, shoulder, hand and wrist injuries as well, as well as working with elite golfers on the European tour. I cover all body parts at a specialist level.
My particular interest is to do with tendon issues, mainly tendinopathies and overuse injuries.
Professional memberships
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Mr Chris Whittle, Physiotherapist
❝Mr Chris Whittle is an ex-footballer who understands the complex needs of football injuries and provides detailed patient programs.❞
Ms Jennifer Touzel, Physiotherapist
❝Ms Jennifer Touzel is an expert physio in treating knee and lower limb injuries. She's had very good outcomes for my patients.❞
Ms Erin Lahay, Physiotherapist
❝Ms Erin Lahay provides top-quality strength programs and Pilates programs for my patients.❞
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Dr Catherine Lester, Sport & Exercise Medicine Specialist
❝Dr Catherine Lester deals with mental health conditions in athletes and exercisers.❞
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❝Mr Cameron Siandri is a cricket expert and treats my shoulder and elbow sports injuries from overuse injuries.❞
