Consultant Rheumatologist
I am a senior consultant physician and hospital director with over 20 years’ specialist experience diagnosing and treating the full range of musculoskeletal conditions that can affect both adults and children. I am also expert in the diagnosis and multidisciplinary care of chronic pain, post viral illness and fibromyalgia. My practice is based at The Blackheath Hospital.
Rheumatology is the specialist diagnosis and treatment of conditions that affect the musculoskeletal system, including bones, joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments. These conditions can be mechanical or autoimmune and inflammatory in nature, and affect any age group. There are many treatment pathways that I can provide involving specialist multidisciplinary professional teams.
A commonly misunderstood auto-immune disease affecting all ages.
Episodic bouts of gout can be debilitating but there are many treatment options.
Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and tenderness at specific tender points, often accompanied by sleep disturbances and cognitive difficulties, with no clear underlying inflammation or joint damage.
Hypermobility, often associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders, is a condition characterized by an excessive range of joint motion due to laxity of connective tissues, potentially leading to joint pain, instability, and a range of associated symptoms.
At the Blackheath Hospital we have access to the most modern scanning and diagnostic techniques.
‘In my private outpatient clinic I offer injection therapy for the following conditions:
I specialise within a paediatric rheumatology network together with the Evelina Children’s Hospital looking after young people with a broad range of conditions from joint hypermobility to multi system autoimmune disease.
I am the first author of the current national guidelines on the management of acute single joint arthritis and am published widely on the topic.
You can make a private appointment directly to see Dr Mathews for an initial consultation at the Blackheath Hospital using the link below.
