Stop pain before it stops you..... It is the discipline not the desire that determines the destiny.....

Dr Gajendra Singh

Dr Singh has over three decades of extensive experience in orthopaedic surgery and musculoskeletal medicine. He has worked in England, Ireland, India, and has been working in New Zealand for the last two decades.

After seeing the frustration many patients were experiencing due to lack of surgical solutions, or continuing pain even post-surgery, Dr Singh was inspired to look for the missing link that would bring relief to so many.

As a musculoskeletal physician, he fills the gap between orthopaedic doctors and general practitioners by managing musculoskeletal-related conditions non-operatively, and by providing reassurance to patients and their doctors.

Given the huge demand and workload that the district health boards are experiencing, general practitioners are under increasing pressure to provide comprehensive time-consuming written referrals and reports. General practitioners too are facing increased workloads and pressure, and do not have the time available to them to undertake thorough and comprehensive reviews of patients. This is where MSM Pain Clinic can assist as we are able to do detailed assessments.

Dr Singh is a fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Musculoskeletal Medicine, a member of SIS (International Spine Intervention Society), and has his Masters in Pain Medicine from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Dr Singh has undertaken various training and hands-on sessions with well-known practitioners, nationally and internationally. He has also facilitated musculoskeletal medicine workshops for medical practitioners across New Zealand, at the General Practitioners Continuing Medical Education Conference (endorsed by the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners) in June 2013 (Rotorua), June 2019 (Rotorua) and August 2019 (Christchurch).

Dr Singh use a comprehensive approach for chronic pain patients that includes clinical assessment, appropriate investigations, an explanation of the condition, reassurance, advice, medication, various injections of local anaesthetic, or a combination of these with steroids (as appropriate), mobilisation, exercise programs and surgical referral as required.

His aim is to identify the source of symptoms, as well as provide pain relief through a variety of tools including appropriate use of medication, pain intervention with steroid injection under x-ray or ultrasound scan, and home exercises. With an extensive orthopaedic experience coupled with current practice of musculoskeletal medicine, Dr Singh works to provide a right balance when advising treatment options to the patient. This unique combination of orthopaedic experience coupled with musculoskeletal pain-related studies and training has given him insight into determining when surgery is appropriate and when the results of surgery are no better than a more conservative approach. He uses a comprehensive approach to acute and chronic musculoskeletal related problems, providing generous time (usually an hour) for initial assessment.

Many patients experience an enormous sense of relief to be advised that their suffering is genuine, and to receive recognition of the source of their chronic pain, particularly when they have been advised to see a psychologist for pain management who from time to time will focus on assisting the patient to learn to live with the pain and coping strategies instead of alleviating it.