Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Dr. Rajiv Kumar Singh, MA, Ph.D., MBChB, FRCP is a Senior Lecturer and Consultant at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is practice encompasses all aspects of Rehabilitation with particular interests in Brain Injury and trauma management and other neurological conditions with a disability such as a stroke, cerebral palsy, and multiple sclerosis. He has considerable expertise in these and other conditions, including the management of spasticity, complex pain syndromes, and amputees. He also has considerable experience in guiding return to work and driving assessments after injury. He has been instructed by most of the leading personal injury law firms, and given evidence in court, including in Court of Protection proceedings.
Dr. Singh has a strong research and teaching background with extensive publications. He has lectured widely at meetings including the World Congress, the International Brain Injury Association, European Society of Rehabilitation Medicine. He has published some of the largest-ever studies on brain injury outcomes which help to guide the best treatment.
Dr. Singh studied Medicine at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and subsequently trained in Edinburgh and London (UCLH and Royal Free) Teaching Hospitals in General Medicine and Diabetes/Endocrinology. These medical skills are vital in everyday patient management. He then chose to specialize in neurological and physical rehabilitation, training in Edinburgh at one of the foremost research and training centers for Rehabilitation Medicine in the UK. He won the Myre-Sim Bursary to complete part of his training at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2010.