Dr Sarah Akol Aturia

Dr. Sarah Aturia is a highly experienced Consultant in Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine. Her clinical practice spanning both the NHS and private sectors, covers all aspects of acute, chronic, and cancer-related pain.  With a compassionate and patient-centred approach, Dr Aturia is committed to improving her patients’ quality of life. She develops comprehensive, personalised pain management plans focused on long-term physical, functional, and emotional wellbeing. Her care is firmly rooted in a multidisciplinary model, ensuring a holistic pathway toward the best possible outcomes.  Dr Aturia understands the profound impact that persistent pain can have on daily life, often with far-reaching and distressing consequences. She is skilled in performing a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic pain interventions—both minor and advanced—using X-ray or ultrasound guidance. Rational use of medications. is also explored.  She holds practicing privileges at several respected institutions, including The Saxon Clinic, The Manor Hospital, The Chiltern Hospital, and The Shelburne Hospital. Dr Aturia received her higher specialist training at the Oxford School of Anaesthesia, where she earned her FRCA and FFPMRCA qualifications and completed a prestigious Pain Fellowship at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in Queensland in Australia.  For nearly fourteen years, Dr Aturia has played a leading role in shaping and delivering high-quality pain services in Milton Keynes and surrounding areas. She has actively led and collaborated on numerous clinical initiatives that have positively impacted both individual patients and the broader community.  Her philosophy is centred on individualised, evidence-based pain management, employing a range of therapeutic techniques to optimise rehabilitation and physiotherapy, restore function, and ultimately support patients in returning to the activities and experiences that matter most to them.  In addition, Dr Aturia holds The Cardiff University Bond Solon (CUBS) Expert Witness Civil Certificate (2023). She provides reports and offers an individualised and tailored plan for medico-legal patients requiring pain management.  Dr Aturia is a lecturer for GPs, Essential Pain Management (EPM) programme delivered to undergraduates at the University of Buckingham Medical School and doctors in training. EPM is an initiative of the Faculty of Pain Medicine, designed to improve education on pain assessment and management in the UK.

Dr Aturia has a special interest in the management of musculoskeletal, joint, low back, neck, neuropathic, radicular (sciatica), pelvic, post-surgical pain, as well as Fibromyalgia. She performs a range of procedures which offer vital windows of relief, enabling patients to re-engage with physiotherapy, tailored exercise programmes, day-to-day activities, and even sports. They include: Radiofrequency Denervation for spinal neck, thoracic, lumbar and sacroiliac joints pain Spine Medial Branch Blocks, Sacro-iliac and facet injections  Sympathetic, peripheral and nerve root blocks  Pulsed Radiofrequency of dorsal root and sympathetic ganglia and nerves  Trigger point, scar tissue and sacro-coccygeal injections Epidural and transforaminal injections Qutenza (Capsaicin 8%) treatment