About Me

Dr Raithatha graduated in 2008 from the University of Manchester; followed by training in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine in Birmingham and Leicester. He underwent prestigious fellowships lasting 1 year each in the UK and Brisbane, Australia. He works full time at the Leicester General Hospital as a Consultant with a specialist interest in musculoskeletal, abdominal, chest, neck, cancer pain and widespread pain disorders (i.e. fibromyalgia).

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Dr Raithatha treats a variety of conditions and his practice at the Spire and Nuffield Hospitals will be performing targeted ultrasound-guided, fluoroscopy (X-ray) guided and intravenous lignocaine therapies.

He is proficient in using ultrasound, treating a variety of different conditions, abdominal myofascial pain, pelvic pain, shoulder, elbow, hand pain, hip, knee and ankle pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), occipital headaches, migraines, back pain, and other targeted nerve injections.

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Back pain, facet joint, sacroiliac joint, spinal stenosis and coccydynia can be managed with directed fluoroscopy-guided injections.

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Abdominal pain or pelvic pain are managed with a variety of strategies; directed sympathetic nerve blocks including splanchnic, lumbar sympathetic and ganglion of impar nerve blocks are among a number of techniques Dr Raithatha can employ.

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He has an honorary contract with the LOROS hospice in Leicester and performs a variety of pain management strategies to improve the quality of life for palliative care patients. He is also the Regional advisor for the East Midlands for the Faculty of Pain. Dr Raithatha’s aim is to provide an improvement in pain whilst maintaining a holistic approach to their condition.