Consultant Profile

Dr Rahul Seewal MBBS, MD, FRCA, FPMRCA, dip Doctors as Managers

Practising at: Ashford and Canterbury

Specialties: Pain management medicine

Special clinical interests:
• Back pain
• Neck pain
• Headaches
• Fibromyalgia
• Neuropathic pain
• Persistent Post-surgical pain after hernia repair, mastectomies, thoracotomies.
• Opioid withdrawal

Research interests:
Behaviour change science and its use in managing chronic pain.

Clinical practice based on managing pain through lifestyle and behaviour change using MyPain app. The MyPain app – see www.mypain.uk to download the app.

Management of common chronic pain conditions like back pain, neck pain, headaches, nerve damage pain and how to manage complex patients and those of high dose of opioids.

Current NHS and /or university posts:
Dr Rahul Seewal is a Consultant in Pain Management at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital (London), an honorary Consultant at The Brompton and Harefield Hospital (London) and Consultant at the East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust.

Year of first medical qualification and medical school attended: 1997

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
General Medical Council
British Medical Association
International Association for The Study of Pain
The Royal College of Anaesthetists
The Faculty of Pain Medicine, Royal College of Anaesthetists

Background Information

Dr Seewal practices high quality, evidence and value-based care, tailored to his individual patients, helping them to overcome any pain related limitations (physical, functional, social and psychological), so that they can lead as normal a life as possible.

He qualified in 1997 and obtained an MD in 2003 and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2005. Dr Seewal completed advanced training in Pain Management at the UCL Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and was awarded the Fellowship of The Faculty of Pain Medicine of The Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2009.

Dr Seewal joined the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 2010 and East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust in 2018, as a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management.

His practice covers a breadth of treatments offered for complex pain, including spinal pain injections, multidisciplinary consultations, medicines, neuromodulation and other pain management interventions and he is a member of The International Society for the Study of Pain.

Insurers Dr Rahul Seewal works with

Dr Rahul Seewal works with the following private medical insurance providers:

• Aviva Health
• AXA Health
• AXA - Global Healthcare
• Cigna
• Simplyhealth
• Vitality Health (Pru Health)
• Bupa

I can offer a web based pain management programme that helps in rehabilitation and long term pain management through the MyPain app – see www.mypain.uk to download the app.