Dr Noel Pollock, Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine & Associate Professor at UCL
Dr Noel Pollock
Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine & Associate Professor at UCL
Dr Noel Pollock MB BCh (Hons) Msc Sports Med FFSEM
Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine & Associate Professor at UCL
Dr Noel Pollock
Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine & Associate Professor at UCL MB BCh (Hons) Msc Sports Med FFSEM
Dr Pollock is a Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine & Associate Professor at UCL
Areas of expertise
- Muscle injuries
- Foot & ankle
- Knee
- Hip injuries
- Sports and exercise medicine
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Address
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Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health (Mondays and Wednesdays: 9am-4pm; Thursdays: 1pm-8pm)
170 Tottenham Court Rd, London, W1T 7HA
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Chiswick Medical Centre (Tuesdays: 9am-5pm)
Bond House, 347-353 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 4HS
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Telephone or video consultation
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About Dr Noel Pollock
GMC number: 6052902
Year qualified: 2002
Place of primary qualification: Queens University of Belfast
Dr Noel Pollock is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health (ISEH) on Tottenham Court Road, and Chiswick Medical Centre. He also serves as an associate professor at UCL.
Noel graduated with honours in medicine from Queen’s University Belfast and completed an MSc with distinction in sport and exercise medicine at Bath University in 2006. He was among the first cohort of eight specialist SEM trainees in the UK.
Dr Pollock served as the team doctor for the British Track and Field team for 15 years, from 2006 to 2021, attending numerous Olympic, Paralympic, World, and European championships. He was the sports medicine lead doctor in the Athletics Stadium at the London 2012 Olympics. Between 2016 and 2021, Noel led the British Athletics medical team as Chief Medical Officer and later served as UKA Chief Medical Advisor with a governance and oversight remit from 2021 to 2023.
In January 2021, Noel joined the ISEH and Chiswick Medical Centre as a consultant in sport and exercise medicine, providing clinical services for patients with musculoskeletal pain or injury.
He has published work on muscle injury classification and rehabilitation, female athlete health, elite athlete health management, bone stress injury, and Achilles tendinopathy.
A former endurance runner, Noel won national titles and international honours for Northern Ireland in cross country, 5k, and 1500m events. Now, he enjoys cycling regularly and playing football at the weekend.
Areas of expertise
- Achilles
- Achilles tendon
- Acl (anterior cruciate ligament) injury
- Ankle pain
- Ankle sprain
- Back pain
- Bone health
- Bursitis (hip)
- Bursitis (shoulder)
- Buttock pain
- Cartilage injury
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Cricket injury
- Dance injury
- Diagnostic ultrasound
- Elbow pain
- Exercise induced asthma
- Exercise prescription
- Female athlete triad
- Foot & ankle
- Football injuries
- Football injury
- Groin disorders
- Hamstring injury
- Hip and groin pain
- Hip disorders
- Hip injuries
- Injection therapies
- Injuries in track and field
- Injury rehabilitation
- Iron deficiency
- Joint injection
- Joint injury
- Knee
- Knee pain
- Ligament injury
- Muscle
- Muscle disorders
- Muscle injuries
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Musculoskeletal medicine
- Musculoskeletal ultrasound
- Optimal health
- Orthopaedics
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Overuse injuries
- Patella tendon injury
- Performance in athletes
- Prolotherapy
- Rugby injuries
- Running injuries
- Shin splints
- Shockwave therapy
- Shoulder pain
- Shoulder tendinopathy (pitcher’s shoulder)
- Soft tissue injection
- Sports injuries
- Sports and exercise medicine
- Stress fractures
- Tendinopathy (tendonitis)
- Tennis elbow
- Tennis injury
- Thigh disorders
- Ultrasound
- Vitamin D deficiency
Professional memberships
Articles by Dr Noel Pollock
Sports and exercise-related tendinopathies
The single-leg roman chair hold is more effective than the nordic hamstring curl in improving hamstring strength-endurance in gaelic footballers with previous hamstring injury
Plantaris injuries in elite UK track and field athletes over a 4-year period
Impact of intravenous iron on aerobic capacity and iron metabolism in elite athletes
Low 25(oh) vitamin d concentrations in international uk track and field athletes
British athletics muscle injury classification
Return to play in elite sport
A case study of an iron-deficient female olympic 1500-m runner
A 4-year study of hamstring injury outcomes in elite track and field using the British Athletics rehabilitation approach
An 8-year analysis of magnesium status in elite international track & field athletes
Eccentric hamstring strength in elite track and field athletes on the British Athletics world class performance program
Hamstring rehabilitation in elite track and field athletes
Time to return to full training is delayed and recurrence rate is higher in intratendinous ('c') acute hamstring injury in elite track and field athletes
Plantaris excision in the treatment of non-insertional achilles tendinopathy in elite athletes
Impact of intravenous iron on aerobic capacity and iron metabolism in elite athletes
Plantaris injuries in elite UK track and field athletes over a 4-year period: a retrospective cohort study
British athletics muscle injury classification
Managing the health of the elite athlete
Sports and exercise-related tendinopathies
A case study of an iron-deficient female Olympic 1500-m runner
Bone-mineral density and other features of the female athlete triad in elite endurance runners
Prevalence of cocaine use among patients attending the emergency department with chest pain
Osteoporotic fracture in an elite male Kenyan athlete
