Dr Tony Hammond Consultant Profile
Dr Tony Hammond, is a senior Physician, Rheumatologist and Specialist in minimally invasive spinal pain management. In addition to a wealth of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of Immune Rheumatic diseases and arthritis, he has developed unique insights and advanced treatments for common, but usually neglected, spinal pain problems resulting from damage to intervertebral discs.
Having trained in Bristol, Bath and London including St Bart’s, The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases and The Royal Postgraduate Medical School, he served as Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist in Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England for 20 years
He has a Doctorate in the Immunology of SLE, has written almost 50 scientific papers, contributed to and designed numerous clinical trials and remains active in teaching and research. He is a Spinal Intervention Society (SIS) instructor in Interventional Spinal Pain Management techniques.
Dr Hammond takes part in forums, like London Pain Forum, British Pain Society British Society for Rheumatology and Spinal Intervention Society.
Dr Hammond is ‘in press’ in the British Pain Society, Pain News, with the results of a 100-patient outcome study of the results of DISC-FX treatment in chronic back pain. These are the results of everyday care in Dr Hammond’s clinic amongst the first 100 sequential cases treated with the new DISC-FX disc decompression system.
This is the largest series of such cases in the world literature. Patients had suffered an average 5 years of pain with many over 10 and one up to 40 years. These results represent high grades of successful outcome in cases which had been seen by numerous clinicians over many years without effective diagnosis and treatment. Published literature shows benefits are stable long-term. For more information, please get in contact via The London Clinic.