John Tanner, MBBS

Dr. John Tanner trained first as a GP before specializing in orthopaedic and sports medicine. He ran a sports injury clinic in Milton Keynes for seven years, a medical osteopathic practice in Bermuda for four years, and, on return to the UK, developed the Oving Clinic as a multidisciplinary practice in West Sussex. He also worked as an Associate Specialist at Odstock Rehabilitation in the Pain Management team for 10 years and for two years in orthopaedics at Worthing. He took over Malcolm Read’s practice in Guildford and has worked at the Blackberry Clinic there. He has authored several books on back pain the most recent being ‘Your Guide to Back Pain’ by the BMA. He pioneered the use of extracorporeal shockwave therapy in tendinopathy in the UK, and has a special interest in chronic musculoskeletal and spinal pain, interventional pain relief techniques, and psychological management. He is an Instructor for the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society and set up a new course for Post Graduate Modular training for doctors in Musculoskeletal Medicine at the British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine, which ran for 10 years. He has examined for the Society of Apothecaries Diploma in this subject and teaches and examines on the MSc at Bournemouth University in MS Ultrasound.

Currently Dr. Tanner is engaged in setting up a Research Study on prolotherapy in the sacroiliac region with Southampton and Warwick University Research Advisory Services.

He has worked with the team at BUPA Health Centre, Basinghall for the last 15 years.