Dr Alastair Jones
Qualifications
MBChB, FRCEM, PGDip(SEM), MFSEM (UK)
GMC number: 6075663
Practising since: 2003
Specialties
Emergency Medicine
Consultation times
- Weekly Friday
- Overview
About
Dr Alastair Jones is an experienced Sports and Musculoskeletal Medicine Physician, leading clinics and successfully treating patients across Yorkshire for over 10 years.
The clinics are multi-professional and attract all forms of patients, from elite athletes and high-level amateurs to people who have injured themselves at work or during their activities of daily living. All patients have the commonality of being serious about their sport, work or activity and want to return to it as quickly and safely as possible.
The team treats all kinds of sporting injuries, from concussion and tendon injuries to stress fractures and shin splints.
People who are passionate about their sport, work or hobby and have had an injury use the clinic's expertise to accelerate their recovery and get them back to a pre-injury level of fitness.
The Sports Medicine and Injury Clinic at Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital
The Leeds Sports Medicine and Injury Clinic run by Dr Jones is aimed at active individuals who are currently struggling to return to sport due to acute or chronic injuries. The service provides accurate, timely assessment and targeted investigation of your injury.
Treatment options are discussed and delivered along with detailed return to activity guidance/protocols. Dr Jones works closely with Radiologists, Physiotherapists and Orthopaedic Surgeons to ensure you receive the most appropriate treatment for your injury and return to activity as quickly and safely as possible. All aspects of your care can be accessed all under one roof at the Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital.
Services include:
- X-Ray
- Musculoskeletal ultrasound
- CT scanning
- MRI scanning
- Health and wellness blood tests
- Vitamin and mineral blood tests
- Joint pain injections
- Tendinopathy management (including injections)
- Pain management
- Return to sporting activity guidance
- Gait Analysis
- Shockwave therapy
- Concussion assessment
- Physiotherapy
- Blood profile assessment advice
- Relative energy deficiency in sport assessment
Dr Jones can also see children (over the age of 10) with musculoskeletal or sporting injuries in the Leeds Sports Medicine and Injury Clinic.
Why do you need a multi-disciplinary approach for rapid sports injury recovery? Read Dr Jones' patient case study
Contact our enquiry team for more information and to make an appointment: 0113 388 2067. Find out more about the Leeds Sports Medicine and Injury clinic.
Dr Jones' website: www.thesportsinjurydoctor.com
Special interests
- Sports and Exercise Medicine
- Sporting Injuries
- Musculoskeletal Medicine
Other interests
- Medical Education
- Strength and Conditioning
Personal interests
- Rugby
- Weight Training
- Swimming
- Running
- Golf
- Family Walks in the Lakes
- Holidays and foreign travel
Locations Dr Alastair Jones works with
Related experience
Research
Alastair’s research interests include the development of acute musculoskeletal injury services and recent publications have focussed on the improvements in the care of patients with ACL injuries following the creation of such a service.
Current projects are looking into the assessment and advice given to patients following concussive injuries sustained while playing sport.
Memberships
- Royal College of Emergency Medicine
- British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine
- Medical Protection Society
Other posts held
- Rugby Football Union Twickenham Stadium Match Day Doctor
- Rugby Football Union Pre-Hospital Immediate Care in Sport Course Director and Instructor
- Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Insurers Dr Alastair Jones works with
Dr Alastair Jones works with the following private medical insurance providers:
- Aviva Health
- Vitality Health (Pru Health)
- Bupa
- Cigna
- Healix
- WPA
- AXA Health
Declaration
Dr Alastair Jones does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.
Dr Alastair Jones does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.
Dr Alastair Jones does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.