Barts NHS & QMUL Dance Injury Clinic
Mile End Hospital
Mile End Hospital, Bancroft Road, London, E1 4DG
Founded in partnership with NIDMS
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How can I get an appointment?
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You must first visit your GP, explain your injury concern and that you are a dancer, teacher, or choreographer and would benefit from dance-specialist treatment. Your GP will refer you to your chosen NHS Dance Injury clinic using the information below.
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Please print this information or show this information on your phone during your GP appointment to help them make the referral.
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Please note this service is a Secondary service, not Tertiary. Due to this service being an NHS service it is free at the point of use and as an NHS patient it is your legal right to choose where you would like to be referred.
Referral options/details
PLEASE NOTE
Currently, the dance injury clinic referral is modified. Please send us your referral in either for the two following ways:
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Email referral letters directly to Susan Lawrence.
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Referrals can also be sent via Rheumatology (as below) 'defer to provider' on e-RS. These patients will be triaged. If allocated to the dance injury clinic, patients will be directed to the next available appointment.
From 1st October 2018, all GP referrals are now done electronically through the e-Referral System (e-RS).
The Sports and Dance clinics are available on e-RS as follows:
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Mile End Hospital
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Rheumatology - MSK - Routine Referral
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Mile End Sport and Exercise Clinic
If you are unable to find the clinic on eRS, please contact the clinic secretary:
0208 223 8518 – Susan Lawrence
0208 223 8408 – Deborah Hession
Email bhnt.rheumatology@nhs.net
Your appointment will take place at Mile End Hospital, Bancroft Road, London, E1 4DG. You will be seen at the dance injury clinic on a Monday afternoon.
If you have any problems or questions regarding your referral please contact the NIDMS Manager on: 020 7940 9804 or
About the Barts & QMUL clinic
The Sports Medicine clinic at Mile End Hospital is staffed by highly qualified and experienced staff. It is part of the Bart’s Health NHS Trust. There are clinical sessions on Monday and Thursday afternoons. Staff include Sport and Exercise Medicine Consultants, Physiotherapists, and Podiatrists. There are regular multi-disciplinary meetings where complex cases are assessed and discussed by these staff as well as Radiologists and Orthopaedic Surgeons. The clinics have post-graduate students of Sport and Exercise Medicine attending, as part of a master’s programme run by the Centre of Sport and Exercise Medicine. The Centre is a world-renowned research unit which publishes regularly on aspects of Dance Medicine, as well as all other aspects of Sport and Exercise Medicine.
Meet the team
Dr Sivanadian Mani-Babu
Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine
Dr Mani-Babu graduated in Medicine from University College London Medical School in 2005, along with a First Class Honours Degree in Physiology. He completed the London Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) registrar training programme, including rotation through the Dance Injury Clinic at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and became a Consultant in August 2013. He has also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound.
He has a variety of clinical and leadership experience within the NHS, Private Sector, Ministry of Defence and Elite Sport. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), Fellow of the Faculty of SEM and was appointed Honorary Secretary for the Faculty of SEM in 2018.
Dr Mani-Babu is SEM Consultant in the SEM service at Barts Health NHS Trust in London. Previously, he has also worked for many years at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court, where he was lead consultant in the Centre for Spinal and Upper Quadrant Rehabilitation, Lead for Trainee Education and Consultant in the Centre for Lower Limbs Rehabilitation.
His roles in sport have included medical team leader at Olympic and Paralympic Games (2012 London), Lead UK team doctor at The Invictus Games (2017 Toronto), National Classifier for the British Athletics Parallel Success Programme and Medical Officer in professional football with Brentford FC and Fulham FC. He has also worked in a variety of other sports including boxing, judo, basketball, marathon/athletics events and rugby.
Dr Mani-Babu is a strong advocate for a team-based approach to managing medical and musculoskeletal conditions not only for elite athletes but also for all individuals who would like to be physically active.
Prof Dylan Morrissey
Clinical Professor and Consultant Physiotherapist
Professor Morrissey completed an MSc at University College London in 1998 and a PhD in 2005 at King’s College London. He is now Consultant Physiotherapist and Professor of Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Bart's and the London NHS trust / Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). He leads Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM) at QMUL, comprising an inter-disciplinary team of 18 people.
He is a fellow of the HEA and provides academic leadership to the SEM educational programmes at QMUL - an intercalated BSc, a PhD programme and the MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine. He runs the Human Performance Laboratory. He has gained more than £7m in research funding, with a third as lead applicant, and has authored ~ 90 peer-reviewed full papers. His main research interests are tendinopathy, evidence translation and the link between movement and pathology. He has an increasing focus on data management and artificial intelligence. His sporting passion is paralympic sport, and he was a headquarters physiotherapist for London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Mr Trevor Prior
Senior Clinical Lecturer & Consultant Podiatric Surgeon
Role in Department:
MDT Sports Injuries Clinic
Certificate in Podiatric Sports Medicine joint clinical lead
Podiatric Sports injuries joint module lead
Research Projects supervisor
Personal Tutor
Research interests:
Lower limb biomechanics
Rowing mechanics
3D gait analysis
Dr Nikos Malliaropoulos
Senior Clinical Lecturer & Consultant in SEM
Role in Department:
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Module Co Lead
Research Project Supervisor
Graduate of the department, link to ECOSEP
Research Interests:
Hamstring Injuries
Judo, Athletics
ESWT
Ultrasound Imaging
Dr Dev Pyne
Consultant Rheumatologist/Clinical Lead
Dr D Pyne is Clinical Lead for Rheumatology with an interest in sports injuries. He is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer In Sports and Exercise. He lectures on the Sports MSc and is responsible for the running of the weekly Sports Clinics within the rheumatology department at Mile End Hospital