Colin Pinder

Colin completed his medical degree between 1983 – 1988 at Leeds University Medical School. After which he worked as a junior doctor on rotations including neurology, spinal injuries, neurosurgery, rheumatology and care of the elderly, prior to entering a specialist training programme in Rehabilitation Medicine in Yorkshire. He first used botulinum toxin for the management of spasticity in 1993.

Taking up his substantive position as a Consultant in Neurological Rehabilitation in 1999 at The Walton Centre in Liverpool and Clatterbridge Hospital on The Wirral, where he has worked to the present day. Clatterbridge focuses on the inpatient rehabilitation of people with any type of brain injury, including trauma, stroke, post-neurosurgery; spinal injury, mainly non-traumatic; and peripheral nerve problems such as acute peripheral neuropathy.

At The Walton Centre  focus is on the management of complex spasticity. He has a cohort of over 200 patients that he treats regularly with botulinum toxin, some who have been consulting with him since 2008. Since around 2016 he has worked as an integral part of the multidisciplinary complex spasticity clinic to assess patients alongside a neurosurgeon, expert physiotherapist and another consultant in rehabilitation medicine.

He has been extensively using diagnostic local anaesthetic nerve blocks for assessment for spasticity treatment since around 2010 and has treated a wide variety of nerves. This includes treating a small number of patients with phenol nerve blocks. This year he has extended this to cryoneurolysis with excellent results so far.

From 2011 until 2019, he was Training Programme Director for Rehabilitation Medicine for the Northwest Deanery, and still continues with educational activities for medical students, specialist trainees and others.

Colin is already well known and respected in the medicolegal world having prepared expert witness reports for the court since 2006 however, at PSP he offers assessment and treatment as part of the PSP MDT. He is able to comprehensively assess Clients who have suffered any type of brain injury and give a full rehabilitation diagnosis with recommendations for onward treatment alongside his expert advice and treatment recommendations for spasticity. He will also consider Clients who need medically led rehabilitation management regardless of primary injury diagnosis – please contact him via the website to discuss potential availability for assessment.