Dr Maissara Al-Rikabi

Dr Maissara Al-Rikabi is an experienced Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia at Kings College Hospitals Foundation Trust. He has 22 years of experience in both specialist fields, including international experience from Canada, Middle east, Belgium, Ireland, USA and the U.K. He achieved both the American Board Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) and the American Board-Certified Interventional Pain Sonologist (CIPS) degrees in the USA. Dr Al-Rikabi offers a multi-modal approach to pain management. Providing consultations and medical management with special interest in spinal interventions, he offers a wide range of interventional procedures to patients:

• Diagnostic/Therapeutic Facet/Medial Branch Blocks for Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar and Sacral Back Pain and Radiofrequency Denervation

• Selective nerve roots injection with pulsed RF

• Sacro-iliac joint injection and radiofrequency denervation

• Cervical, thoracic and lumbar Interlaminar Epidural and Transforaminal Epidural

• Caudal epidural

• Sacro-coccygeal injection with pulsed radiofrequency.

• Botox injections for Myofascial Muscular Pain and Migraines 

• Stellate ganglion, Thoracic sympathetic ganglion, Splanchnic and Lumber sympathetic block and radiofrequency ablation.

• Superior hypogastric plexus block.

• Sacroiliac joint radiofrequency ablation.

• Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Pulsed radiofrequency.

• Shoulder, Elbow (tennis and golf elbow), wrist, hand, hip, Knee, ankle and foot Injections.

• Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy for Chronic Pain.

• Botox and Dermal Fillers for Aesthetic Medicine 




Dr Al-Rikabi has a multi-modal approach to pain management using interventional procedures and pharmacotherapy. He provides services for headache, neck pain, back pain, referral pain to arm and leg, pelvic pain and cancer pain. 

• Shoulder and Neck pain

• Back and upper and lower limb referral pain

• Trnsformational selective nerve block

• Cervical, thoracic, lumbar and caudal epidural

• Occipital nerve block

• Paravertebral block

• Sacro-iliac joint injection and RF denervation

• Headaches (cluster, tension and cervicogenic) and Migraines

• Radiculopathy/Sciatica Leg Pain

• Refractory Angina Management

• Post-Surgical Pain

• Neuropathic Pain

• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

• Headaches and Migraines

• Fibromyalgia

• Myofascial Pain including Trigeminal neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia and temporomandibular joint dysfunction.

• Abdomen and Pelvic Pain

• Opioid Pain Management

• Aesthetic and Cosmetic Medicine

• Testicular pain
• Prostatitis
• Bladder pain
• Post vasectomy

• Pelvic and lower abdominal pain
• Wrist pain and carpal tunnel syndrome

• Pudendal nerve block with pulsed RF

• Pyriformis muscle block with or without Botox injection

• Ilio-hypogastric block with pulsed RF

• Ilio-inguinal block with pulsed RF

• Genito-femoral block with pulsed RF

• IV Lidocaine Infusion

• Medicolegal

 

 Royal College of Anaesthesia UK
 General Medical Council
 College of Anaesthesia of Ireland  (FCAI)
 ESF (EDAIC) Belgium European Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
 WIP (FIPP) Member-FIPP USA World Institution of Pain/ Fellowship
 EPF (EDPM) European Pain Federation Belgium
 ICS Membership UK British Intensive Care Society
 WAPMU Member of the World Academy of Pain Medicine Ultrasonography USA
 SIS Spine Intervention Society
 ASRA American Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine
 CUBS Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate
 Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice Ultrasound FIPP (USA) Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice Fluoroscope CIPS (USA)
 European Federation Diploma in Pain Medicine (Belgium) EFIC
 European Pain Diploma of acute and chronic pain Part 1 Switzerland
 Fellowship Of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland FCAI (Dublin)
 European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Part 2 (Vienna, Austria)
 European Diploma of Anaesthesia Part1 Basic and Clinical (Liège, Belgium)
 Fellow Obstetric and Pain management Anaesthesia, Dublin/ Ireland
 Specialist Training in Anaesthesia, ICU and pain- Liege, Belgium
 Certificate of Registration Medical Council of Canada LMCC
 Medical License Bridging Program, University of Ottawa