Dr Sharmila Khot

Sharmila Khot  is a specialist in pain management and a consultant anaesthetist at Vale Healthcare, your first choice private pain management clinics in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. Sharmila also practises at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff and is a Senior Lecturer with Cardiff University. Her approach as a specialist pain management consultant is holistic, individually tailored and based on the bio-psycho-social model. This involves judicious use of medications, injections, physiotherapy and psychological support (as appropriate).

Within the field of pain medicine her special interest is management of neuropathic pain and persistent pain following surgery. However she is experienced in all aspects of management of mechanical back pain and spinal interventions for relief of pain and has helped patients from across South Wales to manage a varying range and degree of pain or discomfort.

In addition to her Anaesthetic and Pain management qualifications, she is a Fellow of The Royal College of Anaesthetists and a founder member of the Faculty of Pain Medicine. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and has been involved with both national and international presentations on basic sciences and clinical pain management. She is an educational supervisor for advanced training in pain medicine in South Wales.

Sharmila is able to offer her expertise in interventional pain procedures such as epidurals, facet joint intra-articular injections or medial branch blocks, radiofrequency denervation, sympathetic blocks and trigger point injections. She strongly believes in offering complete multidisciplinary pain management through close links with referring therapists and clinicians.