Mr Maurizio Belci

Since 2011, Mr Belci has been a consultant in Spinal Cord Injuries at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville, the UK’s founder spinal unit. More recently he joined our team on Neurorehabilitation consultants at the Wellington Hospital In London. His education began in his native Croatia and from 1983 he studied at the University of Padua Medical School graduating as a Doctor in Medicine & Surgery (DMS) in 1996.  In 1997 he received his Diploma from the Italian National Board of Medical and Surgical Examiners at Padova University.  Thereafter he moved to UK and gained his Masters in Surgical Science at Imperial College London in November 2001 (MSc). He was awarded Membership of Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) in July 2006 and completed his Spinal Cord Injuries (Rehab Medicine) training at Oxford in 2010.  In 2016 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London (FRCP). During his career he has held medical appointments in Italy, Poland Croatia and all over the UK including major hospitals including the Addenbrookes in Cambridge and John Radcliffe in Oxford. He takes special clinical and research interest in neuromodulation, functional electrical stimulation, intrathecal therapies, respiratory function restauration and ventilation, prevention and treatment of chronic neuropathic pain, catheter related UTI’, pressure ulcers, bladder, and bowel incontinence. He is a member of the National Scientific Committee of INSPIRE, specialist charity which raises funds to address independence and quality of life after spinal cord injury (SCI).

Spinal cord injury rehabilitation Rehabilitation of high tetraplegic ventilated patients Management of chronic pain Management of chronic spasticity Management of pressure ulcers Management of neurogenic bladder Management of neurogenic bowel Intrathecal baclofen therapy including