Lifestyle Medicine with Professor (Dr.) Deepak Ravindran
What is Lifestyle Medicine and how can it help you?
Professor (Dr.) Deepak Ravindran is Founder / Director – Berkshire Pain Clinic, Berkshire (and UK’s) Premier Centre for Integrative Pain and Lifestyle Medicine he explains about Lifestyle medicine as it becomes the preferred choice for many clinicians.
With over 20 years of specialist experience, Prof Deepak Ravindran firmly believes that pain conditions should be treated as early as possible, with the appropriate use of multidisciplinary techniques to improve patient quality of life.
His clinic offers a comprehensive service, starting with expert diagnosis and followed up by high quality medical treatment that is complemented by good support from specialists in physiotherapy and psychology.
Prof Deepak Ravindran has a trauma informed ‘upstreamist’ approach to pain practice and has helped set up the community pain service in Berkshire (IPASS) in 2015 and the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated Service (BLIS) in 2020.
He has moved to support primary care with rolling out innovative sustainable delivery models like Group Consultations from August 2024.
Dr Deepak Ravindran
Dr Deepak Ravindran has over 20 years of experience in helping people overcome their pain – in the NHS and private practice.
He is one of the few consultants in the UK who possesses triple certification in lifestyle medicine, musculoskeletal medicine and pain medicine.
He has been a consultant in pain medicine since 2010 in one of the biggest district general medical hospitals, the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in the UK.
He is currently the clinical lead for the specialist pain services for all of West Berkshire since 2015.Â
Dr Deepak Ravindran is part of the award-winning Integrated Pain and Spinal Service (IPASS) service in 2016 and also the Multidisciplinary Circle Fibromyalgia Clinic.
 In 2020, he helped set up the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated service, one of 90 such clinics in the UK to look after Longcovid patients.
Dr Deepak Ravindran is on a mission to interrogate the myths and flesh out the theories of pain management.
He is physician researcher with the University of Reading, working with a number of departments and sharing knowledge with our next generation of passionate academics.
Understanding that the science of pain management is complex – but doable, Dr Deepak Ravindran is a pioneer in the making.
To rewire the brain and adopt a more holistic way of controlling pain and in some cases become pain-free, Dr Deepak Ravindran is a self-confessed ‘upstreamist’ with big plans!
Chronic pain especially requires an approach that is not just about medications, injections, and surgery but also supporting health in its entirety—fully integrating self-management alongside expert support care when needed in a preventative approach.
The work that Dr Deepak Ravindran performs in his clinical life as a doctor, educator, and speaker—is to raise awareness, empower patients and provide new solutions that enhance lifestyle, well-being and health
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