Dr Michael Burdon, Sport & Exercise Medicine Specialist
Dr Michael Burdon
Sport & Exercise Medicine Specialist
Dr Michael Burdon MBBS MSc MRCGP PGD(US) FFSEM(UK)
Sport & Exercise Medicine Specialist
Dr Michael Burdon
Sport & Exercise Medicine Specialist MBBS MSc MRCGP PGD(US) FFSEM(UK)
Areas of expertise
- Sport and exercise medicine
- Musculoskeletal medicine
- Sports trauma and injury
- Musculoskeletal diagnostic ultrasound
- Musculoskeletal ultrasound guided injection intervention
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Chelsea Outpatient Centre
280 King's Rd, London, SW3 5AW
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The Lister Hospital
Chelsea Bridge Road, London, SW1W 8RH
About Dr Michael Burdon
GMC number: 4101730
Year qualified: 1994
Place of primary qualification: University of London
Dr Burdon is Head of Sports Medicine and a Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine at Pure Sports Medicine, Chancery Lane and Kensington in London. His clinical interests include shoulder, osteoarthritis, ultrasound scanning, injection therapy, upper limb, musculoskeletal medicine, sports medicine, groin, hip and knee and exercise medicine. His sporting interests include football, running, swimming, triathlon, marathons, cricket and hockey.
Dr Burdon was a GP for 16 years and event doctor for London 2012 Olympics (covering aquatic sports). He also works at Chelsea Outpatients Centre, Plymouth, Clinical Fellow & Examiner, University of Bath Sports Medicine MSc, Team Physician to England Football Association & GB Hockey and Faculty Tutor, Centre of Ultrasound Studies, Bournemouth. His work experience includes being MoD at South West Rehabilitation Unit, Peninsula Sports Medicine, British Swimming & British Diving and Plymouth Argyle FC & Plymouth Albion RFC.
Areas of expertise
- Adolescent sports injury
- Back pain including sciatica and chronic back pain
- Compartment pressure testing
- Exercise-related health issues including asthma
- Exertional lower leg pain
- Exercise induced leg pain
- Elbow and wrist pain
- Female health
- Groin
- Hip and groin pain
- Knee pain
- Msk injury
- Medicines prescriptions and management
- Marathon medicine
- Musculoskeletal medicine
- Musculoskeletal diagnostic ultrasound
- Musculoskeletal ultrasound guided injection intervention
- Orthopaedic medicine
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis including knee and hip
- Prescribing medicines
- Running injuries
- Shoulder pain and injury
- Swimming, aquatics, diving injury
- Steroid and viscosupplementation injections
- Shockwave therapy
- Sport and exercise medicine
- Sports trauma and injury
- Stress fractures and bone injury
- Ski injury
- Shoulder
- Tendinopathy/tendon
- Tendon, muscle and ligament injury
- Ultrasound scanning
- Upper limb
Frequently asked questions
What are the common symptoms that your patients tend to present with?
The three prominent things would be knee pain, shoulder pain and back pain. If I talk about knee pain, some people present with acute knee trauma, but more often than not, it's a chronic, insidious onset knee pain, which can get worse with activity, sometimes swelling, locking of the knees, giving way of the knees as well. Majority of them would be not elite sports people, but active people who have developed knee pain through increased running or other activities.
What are the treatments that you're able to offer your patients?
If we continue with knee pain and we take anterior knee pain, for example, if I thought that a diagnostic ultrasound scan was the right investigation, I would do that on the same day and in the same appointment. Perhaps someone's got a patellar tendinitis or a quadriceps tendon issue or something along those lines, we will do the scan in clinic. Sometimes, a few of them might need to go and have an MRI as well, which we would arrange a different unit. Sometimes, they don't need diagnostic ultrasound and they'll go straight to an x-ray or an MRI scan. It just depends on the presentation.
That would go for shoulder pain as well. The idea is, where appropriate, I can provide a one-stop shop, so they can have everything done in the same place.
What are your areas of sub-specialist interest?
I'm interested in normal musculoskeletal issues, but I'm particularly interested in diagnostic ultrasound scanning with guided injections and treatments which I do in the clinic. In terms of body region, knee pain and shoulder pain have become my main areas of interest, particularly knee pain, including osteoarthritis of the knee joint and how we manage that non-surgically when it's appropriate and, obviously, referral on to surgical colleagues when it's required.