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Dr Ajai Seth

Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine

MBBS, BSc, MSc, MRCS, MRCGP, FFSEM

Practises at: The Blackheath Hospital

Mr-Ajai-Seth-Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine

Personal Profile

Dr Ajai Seth is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician. He has dedicated his career to helping people with sport and exercise related injury and illness. He consults and treats everyone from the elite athlete to the weekend warrior.

Dr Ajai Seth is part of the British Tennis Sports Physician team at the LTA and has also provided cover to elite athletes at Wimbledon Tennis, European Tour Golf, Premier League Football, British Athletics, and the Men’s England Football academies as part of the FA.

He also prides himself for working in disability sport and is currently the Chief Medical Officer for Team GB Wheelchair Tennis which has taken him to the Olympics and Paralympics.

Dr Ajai Seth is dedicated to education, training and research and is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Medicine at King’s College London where he lectures in all aspects of Sports Medicine and Science.

He also has a passion for travel and Expedition Medicine, which has seen him accompany medical, scientific and charity expeditions all around the world. He also has vast experience in treating musculoskeletal injuries from children and adolescents to veteran exercisers, both male and female.

Dr Seth also has positions in leading Sport Medicine organisations, including the non-executive board for the UK’s largest Sports Medicine charity, BASEM and Past President for the Royal Society of Medicine.

A day in the working life of Dr Seth involves consulting his patients in clinic, performing diagnostics and ultrasound guided injections. He also regularly lectures and tutors students and presents at sports medicine conferences internationally. He also spends part of the working week at the National Tennis Centre, LTA, supporting British Tennis players.

Outside of work, Dr Seth enjoys playing club tennis, triathlon, golf, running and skiing (but will give any sport a go!). He enjoys keeping fit and active and good quality family time with his wife and three children. He lives in the Greenwich area and understands the local sporting culture of southeast London.

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Clinical Interests

  • All sports injuries
  • Tennis injuries
  • Golf injuries
  • Running injuries
  • Back pain
  • Knee injuries
  • Shoulder injuries
  • Tendon pain
  • Bone stress injury
  • Adolescent sports injury

Professional Memberships

  • Member of the Royal College of Surgeons
  • Member of the Royal college of General Practitioners
  • Fellow of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
  • Non-Executive board, British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
  • Past President, Royal Society of Medicine
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