Meet the Team
Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist
Dr Iqbal studied Medicine at The University of Bristol, qualifying in 2010. He completed his radiology training on the Wales Training Scheme and subsequently undertook a Musculoskeletal Imaging fellowship at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham in 2018.
He was appointed as a Consultant Radiologist at
Swansea Bay University Health Board in 2019 and specialises in all forms of
musculoskeletal radiology with a particular interest in musculoskeletal
intervention and the imaging of sports injuries. He is one of the lead
radiologists for the South Wales Sarcoma MDT.
Dr Iqbal has published over
30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has presented his research
internationally. He has also written chapters in books such as Imaging of Joint
Prostheses and Imaging the ACL.
When he is not ferrying them around, Dr Iqbal loves to
spend quality time with his two young children and wife who is a GP partner in
Bristol.
Special interests
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Musculoskeletal MRI and CT
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MR Arthrograms
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Soft tissue ultrasound
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Soft tissue biopsy
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Dynamic ultrasound
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Ultrasound-guided
injections/barbotage/wet needling/dry needling
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Fluoroscopic joint
injections
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Shoulder hydrodilatation
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Cervical nerve root
injections
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Lumbar nerve root
injections
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Facet joint injections
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Sacro-iliac joint
injections
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CT-guided bone biopsy
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CT-guided lumbar punctures
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CT myelograms
Languages spoken
English, Punjabi, Urdu
Treatments and tests offered by Dr Aamer Iqbal at Nuffield Health
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CT scan (or CAT scan)
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MRI scan
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Image guided joint
injections
· Facet joint injections
· Ultrasound