Dr Leon Creaney
Qualifications
BMedSci, MB ChB, MRCGP, MRCP, FFSEM
GMC number: 6027261
Practicing since: 2001
Specialties
Sport and Exercise Medicine
Consultation times
- By appointment
- Overview
Or call us on
01204 774142
About
Dr Creaney is a Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine. The focus of his practice is on the non-surgical care of musculoskeletal conditions, sports injuries and medical problems in athletes. He has a special interest in spinal injections for back pain, joint injections, rehabilitation and overtraining.
Special interests
- Slipped Disc
- Upper limb disorders
- Orthopaedics
- Back pain
- Lower limb disorders
- Sports injuries
- Epidural
- Joint injection
- Shoulder pain
- Ankle pain
- Anterior knee pain
- Buttock pain
- Elbow pain
- Epidural injections
- Foot pain
- Football injuries
- Frozen shoulder
- Groin disorders
- Knee pain
- Sciatica
- Musculoskeletal medicine
- Neck pain
- Ultrasound
- Hip disorders
- Shin splints
- Leg pain
- Overuse injuries
- Rugby injuries
- Running injuries
- Slipped disc
- Stress fractures
- Tendon
- Tendonitis
- Tendonopathy
- Tennis elbow
- Thigh disorders
- Wrist pain
- Spinal injections
- Stitch
- Hip injection
- Physiotherapy
Personal interests
Track and Field
Treatments and tests offered by Dr Leon Creaney at Nuffield Health
- CT scan (or CAT scan)
- X-ray
- MRI scan
Locations Dr Leon Creaney works with
Related experience
Research
List of research papers:
- Growth factor delivery methods in the management of sports injuries: the state of play – British journal of sports medicine
- Growth factor-based therapies provide additional benefit beyond physical therapy in resistant elbow tendinopathy: a prospective, single-blind, randomised trial of autologous blood injections versus platelet-rich plasma injections – British journal of sports medicine
- Platelet-rich plasma and the biological complexity of tissue regeneration – British journal of sports medicine
Memberships
- Royal College of Physicians
- Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine
- British Medical Association
- Medical Protection Society
- British Association of Sport & Exercise Medicine
- International Spinal Intervention Society
Other post held
- Team Doctor at LFC Women
Insurers Dr Leon Creaney works with
Dr Leon Creaney works with the following private medical insurance providers:
- Aviva Health
- AXA PPP Healthcare
- AXA PPP International
- Bupa
- Cigna
- Exeter Family Friendly
- Health-on-Line
- Simplyhealth
- Vitality Health (Pru Health)
- WPA