About Emerald Advanced MSK Therapy
Michael McMahon BSc, MSc, PG Dip is a highly skilled MSK Advanced Practice Physiotherapist & MSK Sonographer with extensive experience across the NHS, Private Practice and multi-sports settings.
Michael developed his ultrasound scanning skills working alongside Peter Resteghini, Consultant Physiotherapist and Musculoskeletal Sonographer at the Homerton University Hospital. He has also worked alongside leading shoulder specialists such as Anju Jaggi and Andre LeLeu in private practice in London.
Michael has worked for the English Institute of Sport with Olympic and Paralympic athletes. He has worked in contact sports such as rugby, gaelic football and for many years in premiership football clubs for Brentford F.C. and Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Work
Michael now works predominantly in a Central London teaching hospital with complex NHS cases and provide expert second opinion on further management options. He is their MSK Injection therapy and Ultrasound lead undertaking over 300 injections per year. He is the Clinical and Operational lead of their NHS Sports Injury Clinic.
He also works in a soft tissue Orthopaedic knee clinic alongside the Lead Consultant Knee Surgeon Mr James Bliss.
Following completion of his BSc Hons Physiotherapy in 2005, Michael has undertaken extensive post graduate training including an MSc in Advanced Practice Physiotherapy and a Post Graduate Diploma in MSK Ultrasound. He is registered with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy & HCPC.
Teaching & Research
Michael leads the South East London MSK Ultrasound Clinical Group. He has taught nationally and internationally on ultrasound scanning and guided injections and published research on his injection therapy clinical practice as below:
- An evaluation of the outcomes of corticosteroid injections in a musculoskeletal clinic during COVID-19
- Characteristics of patients attending for MSK corticosteroid injections in an NHS setting
Locations
Emerald Advanced MSK Therapy offers services across London, Hertfordshire and Essex areas.