Dr Christopher Barringer is a highly experienced consultant specialising in interventional pain medicine. He supports people living with long-term pain by offering advanced, targeted treatments designed for conditions that have not improved with standard approaches.
He is committed to helping patients reduce their pain and improve their quality of life.
Using precise ultrasound and X-ray (fluoroscopic) guidance, he delivers treatments safely and accurately. For persistent nerve pain, he offers advanced neuromodulation options such as spinal cord stimulation. For chronic low back pain related to muscle dysfunction, he provides restorative multifidus stimulation (ReActiv8), a therapy that retrains and strengthens the deep stabilising muscles of the spine.
Dr Barringer also performs a wide range of radiofrequency procedures – including standard, pulsed, and cooled radiofrequency. Cooled radiofrequency for shoulder and knee pain can offer significant relief and may help some patients avoid or delay joint replacement surgery.
He treats many types of pain, including back and neck pain, joint pain, nerve pain, and abdominal or pelvic pain. Patients value his thoughtful, compassionate approach and his ability to find answers where others may not.
Alongside his private practice, Dr Barringer is Lead Consultant for chronic pain medicine at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and serves as Faculty Tutor, mentoring future specialists.
Neuromodulation and Abdomino-pelvic pain
Ultrasound and fluoroscopic (x-ray) guided pain interventions
Lower back pain
Facet joint pain
Sacro iliac joint pain
Degenerative discogenic pain
Vertebrogenic pain
Pain related to multifidus instability
Persistent spinal pain syndrome type 1
Persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2 (failed back surgery syndrome)
Leg pain
Radicular pain (sciatica)
Pain relating to prolapsed disc
Complex regional pain syndrome
Neuropathic pain
Painful peripheral diabetic neuropathy
Chemotherapy induced painful neuropathy
Post surgical pain
Traumatic nerve lesion
Post-herpetic pain
Phantom pain
Stump pain
Brachial plexus injury without root avulsion
Small fibre neuropathy
Pelvic pain
Shoulder pain
Knee pain
The Faculty of Pain Medicine, RCoA, London – FFPMRCA
The Royal College of Anaesthetists, London – FRCA
Nottingham University Medical School – BMBS
Nottingham University Medical School – BMedSci
The King’s School Macclesfield – A level & GCSE
Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine, London
Member of the British Medical Association, London
Member of the Neuromodulation Society of United Kingdom & Ireland
Pain Section Council Member, Royal Society of Medicine, London
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