Dr Christopher Barringer

Dr Christopher Barringer is a specialist in interventional pain medicine and he is proficient in ultrasound and fluoroscopic (x-ray) guided pain interventions; including radiofrequency ablation, cooled radiofrequency and pulsed radiofrequency. Dr Christopher Barringer has extensive experience in treating refractory pain of musculoskeletal, orthopaedic, spinal, neuropathic and abdomino-pelvic origin. He has a special interest in neuromodulation; including spinal cord stimulation and restorative multifidus stimulation (Reactiv8). He trained in the Barts and the London Anaesthetic rotation as part of the London Anaesthetic Academy and completed Advanced Pain training at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH. His NHS base is at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Queens Square, University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust; where he is the consultant lead and faculty tutor for pain medicine.

Spinal Cord Stimulation - Main indications are: o   Low back and leg pain after spinal surgery - (Persistent spina pain syndrome) o   Neuropathic pain conditions including: Painful peripheral diabetic neuropathy Chemotherapy induced painful neuropathy Post surgical pain Traumatic nerve lesion Post-herpetic pain Phantom pain Stump pain Brachial plexus injury without root avulsion Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Neuromodulation and Abdomino-pelvic pain Ultrasound and fluoroscopic (x-ray) guided pain interventions Low back pain o   facet joint pain o   sacro iliac joint pain o   degenerative discogenic pain o   vertebrogenic pain o   pain related to multifidus instability o   persistent spinal pain syndrome type 1 o   persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2 (failed back surgery syndrome) Leg pain o   radicular pain (sciatica) o   pain relating to prolapsed disc Complex regional pain syndrome o   Small fibre neuropathy Pelvic pain Shoulder pain Knee pain