Dr Brinda Christopher, Sports & Exercise Medicine Consultant
Dr Brinda Christopher
Sports & Exercise Medicine Consultant
Dr Brinda Christopher FFSEM MRCP MBBS BSc
Sports & Exercise Medicine Consultant
Dr Brinda Christopher
Sports & Exercise Medicine Consultant FFSEM MRCP MBBS BSc
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Address
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HCA UK at The Shard
The Shard, 32 St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9BS
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London Bridge Hospital
27 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2PR
About Dr Brinda Christopher
GMC number: 6164195
Year qualified: 2006
Place of primary qualification: Royal Free and University College London
Dr Brinda Christopher is a highly esteemed Specialist Consultant in Sports and Exercise Medicine, currently serving at the Ministry of Defence. She obtained her intercalated Sports Science Degree from Loughborough University in 2006 and qualified from University College Medical School in 2007. Dr Christopher completed her general medical training at London University-affiliated teaching hospitals and specialised in Sports and Exercise Medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, and Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court.
In 2016, Dr Christopher was appointed President of the Royal Society of Medicine Sports and Exercise Medicine Section. She also undertook a Fellowship at Stanford University, where she collaborated with the Stanford 25 group, teaching clinical musculoskeletal examination and medicine. Upon returning to the UK, she worked at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club as the Academy Doctor and later extended her care to the 1st Team.
Dr Christopher has a keen interest in football medicine, having worked with Wimbledon AFC, Norwich FC, and Tottenham Hotspur FC. She has also contributed to women's and disabled sports, including England’s Women’s Football, NEC Championship Disabled International Tennis, and GB Disabled Shooting. Her work extends to adolescent sports medicine, having been involved with UK Athletics Junior Championships and Sainsbury’s School Games.
Currently, Dr Christopher is a Regional Rehabilitation Unit Doctor for the MOD in Colchester, overseeing the diagnosis and rehabilitation of injured Army, Navy, and RAF personnel. She works within a multidisciplinary team to ensure optimal outcomes for musculoskeletal injuries. Her special interests include biomechanical optimisation, rehabilitation and return-to-sport, age-related musculoskeletal conditions, and tendinopathies.
Areas of expertise
- ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury
- Acute musculoskeletal injuries
- Adhesive capsulitis
- Adolescent sports injuries
- Age related musculoskeletal conditions
- Ankle pain
- Ankle sprain
- Anterior knee pain
- Arthritis
- Back pain
- Biomechanical optimisation
- Biomechanics and gait analysis
- Bone injuries
- Buttock pain
- Cartilage injury
- Chondromalacia patellae
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis)
- Complex or recurrent injuries
- Cricket injury
- Dance injuries
- Degenerative knee pain/osteoarthritis
- Diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound
- Elbow pain
- Endurance sports injuries
- Exercise prescription
- Foot injury
- Football injury
- Frozen shoulder
- Groin pain
- Hand injury
- Hip and groin pain
- Hydrodilation
- Hydrodistension
- Injury rehabilitation
- Joint & soft tissue injections
- Joint injury
- Joint pain
- Knee pain
- Leg pain
- Ligament injury
- Meniscal injury
- Morton's neuroma
- Muscle
- Musculoskeletal injury
- Neck pain
- Ostenil injections
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteochondral defects
- Osteoporosis
- Overuse injuries
- Patella-femoral joint pain
- Physical fitness assessment
- Rehabilitation & return-to-sport
- Rotator cuff
- Rugby injury
- Running injuries
- Sciatica
- Shin splints
- Shock wave therapy
- Shoulder pain
- Shoulder tendinopathy (pitcher’s shoulder)
- Soft tissue injection
- Spine
- Spine and lower back pain
- Sports injuries
- Sports medicine
- Stress fractures
- Synovitis
- Tendinitis
- Tendinopathy (tendonitis)
- Tendon
- Tennis injury
- Tibialis posterior tendon dysfunction
- Wrist pain
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