About
Dr Towlerton specialises in the assessment and non surgical treatments for the back, neck and legs. He has treated many elite athletes and Olympic medal winners from a wide range of sports for over decade.
He has helped many patients with refractory pain following operations, complex regional pain syndrome, shingles, peripheral nerve pain, myofascial pain syndromes and fibromyalgia.
His special interests, include spinal intervention procedures and spinal cord stimulation.
Based London Consults at
- Fortius Clinics
- Lister Hospital
- Cromwell Hospital
- King Edwards VII hospital
- Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Current NHS Appointments:
- Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Royal Brompton Hospital
Biopic:
Dr Towlerton trained as an undergraduate in medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He read for a BSc in experimental pathology and was awarded the Award of Merit, before qualifying as a Doctor with distinction in medicine in 1990.
He commenced training in postgraduate medical specialties at the Royal Brompton Hospital & Hammersmith Hospital before gaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1992. He further specialised in Anaesthetics & Pain Medicine & was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1995. He undertook fellowships in Sydney, Australia & Seattle, USA before taking up his substantive NHS appointment at Chelsea & Westminster Teaching Hospital, London in 2000. He sat and passed the World Institute of Pain Interventional Exams and was awarded the Fellowship of Interventional Pain Practice in October 2005. At Chelsea & Westminster Hospital he lead the Clinical Pain Management team I Involved in acute postoperative & chronic pain conditions (2002-200).
He has sat on a number of hospital, regional and national committees. He took the post of council member for the interventional pain practice specialist interest group of the British Pain Society in 2005. He leads the Spinal cord stimulator team at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. He sits on the integrated spinal multidisciplinary team at Imperial Health Care trust. His main professional interests include assessment and treatment of spinal conditions, interventional and regional anaesthesia, the treatment of the chronic painful conditions of neck, shoulder, low back, complex regional pain syndrome & persistent post operative surgical pain.
