Ultrasound Guided Injection Techniques for Spasticity Management – Botulinum Toxin Injections Under Ultrasound Guidance (Muhammad Chugtai)

Dr M S Chughtai

B.Sc, MBBS, MRCS, FRCP, Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine, Lead for Rehabilitation

Dr M S Chughtai B.Sc, MBBS, MRCS, FRCP is a senior Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine. He has many years of experience managing complex spasticity patients by using US guided Botulinum Toxin A injections. He is Lead Doctor for Rehabilitation and Clinical Lead for spasticity at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust. He has supervised and participated in many ultrasound guidance courses for focal spasticity muscles’ identifications in limbs.

Mrs Anthea Liptro

Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Team Lead for the Spasticity clinic at Birmingham Community NHS Foundation Trust

Mrs Anthea Liptrot is a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist & Team Lead for the Spasticity clinic at Birmingham Community NHS Foundation Trust. Anthea qualified as a physiotherapist 27 years ago and has specialised in Neurological Rehabilitation for the last 22 years. She has wide experience in spasticity management and neurological physiotherapy working in acute neurological critical care, neurology and neurosurgery, inpatient neurorehabilitation and outpatient neurological condition management clinics.

Anthea has worked in the Spasticity Specialist Clinic since 2007 and completed Botulinum Toxin injection qualification through MSC studies at Coventry University in 2008. She established the independent physiotherapy injector clinics at the West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and supervised and participated in many ultrasound guidance courses for focal spasticity muscle identifications in limbs.

Douglas Ogg

Director Orca Medical Ltd, Lecturer on underlying physical principles of ultrasound

BSc Comparative Physiology (1983), MSc Information Science (1984), Medical device industry 1985present. Invited lecturer on numerous programs teaching underlying physical principles of ultrasound and optical technologies.

Technology application expertise specialising in ultrasound imaging, endoscopy, and minimally invasive therapies. Involved from the industry side in the development and adoption into clinical use of various image guided applications including Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) – guided FNA, Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS) – guided FNA, Laser fetoscopy for treatment of Twin-Twin Transfusion syndrome (named author on first report of use), Interstitial image guided laser therapies, HIFU for treatment of prostate ca. Member of technical application teams at Olympus leading introduction of Narrow Band Imaging into gastroenterology, urology and surgery.