Dr Zbigniew M Kirkor MD,PhD: Pain management and anaesthetics specialist in Chelsea, London

Career history

Dr Kirkor qualified from the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland in 1987. Shortly after this he went on to complete formal anaesthesia training in 1994 and continued to hold several high-ranking consultant posts. He moved on to obtain his PhD in medicine in 1996 and remained in Poland, enjoying a successful early medical career. Dr Kirkor moved to the UK in 2005, joining the Stoke Mandeville Hospital Pain Clinic, part of the National Spine Injury Centre (NSIC). In 2010 he made the move to Telford, Shropshire.

Stem Cell Treatments

Dr Kirkor, together with his colleague Dr Martynas Juozaitis, has set up Algocells, a regenerative orthopaedic clinic affiliated with Regenexx, the renowned pioneering regenerative orthopaedic organisation from the United States, currently consisting of over 45 clinics worldwide. Algocells is the only Regenexx clinic in Europe and the UK.

Algocells is registered with Care Quality Commission and complies with relevant national and international regulations. The clinic employs the use of patients’ own stem cells and platelet-rich plasma in state-of-the-art treatments for spine, discs, joints, ligaments and so on without the need of having a potentially risky operation.

Algocells utilises Regenexx patented procedures and stem cell processing in its own on-site laboratory. Both Dr Kirkor and Dr Juozaitis have completed extensive training with Regenexx clinic in Colorado, USA and continue their professional development in this area by attending several courses and conferences every year.

Dr Kirkor is one of very few specialist utilising, with great success, platelet rich plasma injections for the treatment of neck instability (Cranio-Cervical Joints instability) and cervicogenic headaches. He has developed his own original treatment method for degenerated discs, involving regenerative injection and pulsed radiofrequency stimulation.

The Algocells clinic is open on Mondays and Tuesdays 10:00 - 16:00 by appointment only.

Clinical interests

Dr Kirkor has a special interest in the areas of regenerative orthopaedics, interventional spine pain management, interventional medicine concerning MSK conditions, whiplash injury, Whiplash-Associated Disorders (WAD) and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). He is a member of:

• American Academy / Board of Regenerative Medicine
• The North American Spine Society (NASS)
• Interventional Orthobiologics Foundation (IOF)
• Spine Interventions Society (Membership committee member)

Conditions Treated

Consultation fee: £200

Dr Kirkor is well equipped to tackle a huge range of musculoskeletal and pain-related issues with regenerative orthobiologics, such as:

• Lower back pain: discogenic pain, facet joints pain, degenerative disc disease, spine muscles and ligaments weakness and degeneration, sacroiliac joint pain, radicular pain
• Neck pain; neck instability, whiplash injury and Whiplash Associated Disorder (WAD)
• Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
• Joint pain caused by sport injury
• Joint “wear and tear” osteoarthritis
• Joint arthritis in Lyme disease
• Pain in the shoulder, elbow, hand & wrist, hip, knee, foot & ankle
• Spine, disc and joints degeneration
• Certain types of headaches

Treatments offered

• Epidural injections (Regenexx procedures)
• Epiduroplasty (Racz catheter)
• Facet joints (neck and lower back) injections (Regenexx procedures) and Pulsed Radiofrequency
• Dorsal root ganglion injections (Regenexx procedures) and Pulsed Radiofrequency
• Sacroiliac joints injections (Regenexx procedures) and Pulsed Radiofrequency
• Genicular nerves Pulsed Radiofrequency for knee pain
• Other nerves Pulsed Radiofrequency
• Stem Cells and Plasma injections into discs, facet joints, spine ligaments and muscles (Regenexx procedures)
• Stem Cells and Plasma injections into joints, ligaments and tendons – (Regenexx procedures)

Research interests

Dr Kirkor is involved in regenerative orthopaedic research and the results have been presented on several conferences and published in peer-reviewed medical journals.

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