Dr Kavita Poply
Qualifications
MBBS, FRCA, FCA RCSI, FFPMRCA, PHD
GMC number: 6093827
Specialties
Pain Management Anaesthesia
- Overview
About
Dr Kavita Poply is a highly accomplished and respected professional in the field of Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation. Currently serving as a consultant in Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Associate Professor at Queen Mary University, London. She has dedicated her career to advancing medical education and research in pain management and Neuromodulation and is providing exceptional care to her patients.
She has been accredited with the Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetics and Faculty of Pain Medicine (FRCA, FPM RCA), London. She earned Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Queen Mary University of London
Her area of expertise encompasses a wide range of painful conditions, including headaches (migraine, cluster headache, and facial pains), trigeminal neuralgia, back pain, sciatica, neck pain, brachialgia, CRPS, fibromyalgia, shingles/pleuritic pain, shoulder, knee, hip and ankle joint pains, musculoskeletal pains, chronic abdominal, chronic pelvic pain, chronic groin pain (post-surgical/neuropathic), chronic anal pain, vulvodynia, cancer pain, bruxism and nonsurgical treatment for foot corns/callosities pain etc.
Dr Poply is well-versed with the pain interventions and routinely performs various pain procedures, such as, medial branch block, dorsal root block, epidurals, radiofrequency (RF) treatments, trigger point injections, peripheral nerve blocks, genicular nerve block and RF (knee pains), intercostal nerve block and RF (shingle and chronic pleuritis), stellate ganglion/splanchnic nerves/coeliac plexus/ganglion of impar blocks, Botox infiltration (chronic migraine, bruxism and musculoskeletal pains), intravenous lignocaine/Ketamine infusions (fibromyalgia) and platelet rich plasm therapy for joint pains. She also offers the latest and advanced antiCGRP therapies to headache patients.
Dr Poply is highly skilled in the advanced stimulation therapies (spinal cord stimulator, multifidus stimulator, peripheral nerve stimulator) for the multiple refractory painful conditions, such as back pain with or without sciatica, neck pain with or without brachialgia, CRPS, diabetic neuropathy, osteoarthritic knee/hip pain, ankle pain, pelvic, perianal and groin pain as a conservative and minimally invasive surgical option. Her neuromodulation expertise extends into occipital nerve stimulation for chronic migraine with autonomic symptoms and cluster headaches. Her clinical practice is entirely based on authentic evidence-based practices founded on research and education. Her commitment to the patient's wellbeing is evident through the excellent feedback she receives.
Apart from her clinical roles, Dr Kavita Poply is running various research projects including NIHR trial and actively contributes to the medical community through various leadership positions and educational roles. She serves as the Program Lead for the PGcert in Neuromodulation and Pain Management program at Queen Mary University, London and Co-director for the Executive Education Program In Neuromodulation (EEPIN), City University of London. She is successfully running these programs with international faculty collaboration across the globe.
Special interests
She am specialised in providing holistic care to chronic pain patients, which includes medical and interventional management. She also facilitates multimodal pain management to my patients who require further help with physiotherapy in liaison with her physiotherapist colleagues.
Conditions
- Chronic back pain: Post traumatic/Post surgery/Mechanical
- Post spinal surgery pain (Failed back surgery syndrome)
- Sciatica
- Disc degenerative disease
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic migraine
- Pelvic pain/ spasm
- Osteoarthritis of spine
- Frozen shoulder
- Neck/Shoulder pain
- Occipital /cervical neuralgia
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Peripheral neuropathy
- CRPS
Conventional procedures
- Diagnostic medial branch blocks
- Dorsal root block
- Transforaminal epidural
- Radiofrequency and Pulse radiofrequency
- Sacroiliac joint injection and radiofrequency
- Occipital and peripheral nerve blocks
- Trigger zone steroid injections
- Sympathetic plexus block
- Botox injection for Chronic migraine and muscle spasms
- Platelet Rich Plasm therapy
- Anti-CGRP drugs
Advanced procedures
- Spinal cord stimulation (backache and sciatica)
- Multifidus stimulation (backache)
- Occipital nerve stimulation (higraine and cluster headache)
- Sphenopalatine ganglion block (headache, trigeminal cephalgia)
Expert witness/medicolegal work
At The Holly Hospital, Dr Poply sees claimants with a variety of conditions to prepare medicolegal reports with a fast turnaround time of 14 days after seeing the patient. She has expertise in preparing reports for:
- Personal injury
- Road traffic accidents and injuries
- Whiplash injury
- Head, neck and spinal injuries
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- Soft tissue and muscular injuries
- Sports injuries
- Work related and industrial injury.
Other interests
Dr Poply's dedication to medical education extends her role beyond the geographical boundaries in the Education Committees, Examinership and Pain journal's editorship.
Treatments and tests offered by Dr Kavita Poply at Nuffield Health
- Epidural injection for pain relief
Locations Dr Kavita Poply works with
Related experience
Research
- Mehta V, Munglani R, Eyre G, Bajaj G, Abd-Elsayed A, Poply K. Consenting for Spinal Cord Stimulation - the Pitfalls and Solution. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2025 Feb 1;29(1):44. doi: 10.1007/s11916-024-01349-w. PMID: 39891805; PMCID: PMC11787249.
- Alexios Carayannopoulos DO 1, David Johnson MD 2, David Lee MD 3, Anthony GiuYrida MD 4, Kavita Poply MD, PhD 5, Vivek Mehta MD 6, Marco Amann MD 7, Douglas Santillo PhD 8, Yousef Ghandour DPT 9, Amy Koch PT 10, Meredith Langhorst MD 11, Robert Heros MD 12, Precision Rehabilitation following Neurostimulation Implantation forMultifidus Dysfunction in Nociceptive Mechanical Chronic Low Back Pain, Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation, Available online 21 March 2024, 100333
- Vanessa Jane Chow, MBBS1, Avinash Kumar Hari Narayanan, MBChB, MRes1, Kavita Poply, FRCA, PhD2, and Vivek Mehta. Abducens nerve Palsy - A rare complication of spinal cord stimulator insertion: Case report and literature review, Pain Medicine 2023
- Kavita Poply1,2, Athar Haroon3, Sanskriti Sharma, Serge Nikolic1,2, Alia Ahmad1, Habib Ellamushi2,4, BalajiGaneshan5, Arman Parsai3, Vivek Mehta1,2. Dynamic Brain Imaging Response to SCS DiYerential Frequencies: A double-blind clinical trial (DIFY SCS-PET study), accepted Neuromodulation Journal July 2022.
- Mehta V, Poply K, Ahmad A, Lascelles J, Elyas A, Sharma S, Ganeshan B, Ellamushi H, Nikolic S. Effectiveness of high dose spinal cord stimulation for non-surgical intractable lumbar radiculopathy - HIDENS Study. Pain Pract. 201 Oct 24. doi: 10.1111/papr.13087. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34689409.
- Mehta V, Poply K, Husband M, Anwar S, Langford R. The effects of radiofrequency neurotomy using a strip-lesioning device on subjects with sacroiliac joint pain: Results from the randomized, sham-controlled trial, Pain Physician2018.
- Wodehouse T, Poply K, Snidvongs S, Ramaswamy K, Burke J, Tahir H, Ullrich K, Mehta V. “A pilot study investigating whether Quantitative Sensory Testing alters after treatment in patients with Fibromyalgia” British J Pain 2018; 12(4):250-256.
- Kavita Poply, Serge Nikolic, Habib Ellamushi, Alia Ahmad, Angie Alamgir, Vivek Mehta. A pilot study investigating highdensity spinal cord stimulation for intractable lumbar radiculopathy in virgin-back patients. Neuromodulation Volume 18 Issue2. https://doi.org/10.1111/ner.12950.
- Poply K, Mehta V. The dilemma of interventional pain trials: Thinking beyond the box. British Journal of Anaesthesia Oct2017. 119;4: 718-9.
- Poply K, Bahra A, Mehta V. Migraine November 2016 BJA Reviews.
- Mehta V, Poply K. Clinical Examination and Evaluation Cervical Spine. Symptom Oriented Pain Management, 2017.Jaypee Brothers.
Memberships
- Royal College of Anaesthetics (RCA)
- Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM)
- International Neuromodulation society (INS)
- Medical Protection society (MPS)
Other posts held
- Consultant in Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation, St Barthlomews hospital, London
- Associate Professor at Queen Mary university London