Professor Hasan Tahir

Professor Hasan Tahir
BSc(Hons) MBBS FRCPE FRCP(UK) MFSEM MSc(FEM)

Consultant Rheumatologist & Physician

Professor Hasan Tahir is a specialist in Rheumatology, Sports Medicine and General Medicine. He is a consultant at the Royal Free London NHS Trust and is actively involved in the latest research and the use of new treatments in arthritis.

Professor Tahir has extensive experience in preparing medicolegal reports for medical negligence and personal injury cases since 2005. Reports are written in line with CPR recommendations, providing carefully written, balanced and independent opinion, while highlighting the possible range of opinion on the matter in question. Typically, clients are seen within 14 days and reports completed within a further 14 days.

He has assessed over 100 personal injury cases affecting claimants with inflammatory arthritis, including rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and lupus, as well as those with fibromyalgia, spinal pain and other chronic pain syndromes, including fibromyalgia.

His areas of specialist expertise include:

Rheumatology

Soft tissue rheumatism - including tendonitis, bursitis, epicondylitis, fasciitis, myositis and tenosynovitis. As well as:

• • Fibromyalgia
• • Osteoarthritis
• • Rheumatoid arthritis
• • SLE
• • Sjögren’s syndrome
• • Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
• • Dermatomyositis
• • Polychondritis
• • Polymyositis
• • Polymyalgia rheumatica
• • Infectious arthritis
• • Gout, pseudogout
• • Osteoporosis
• • Anti-phospholipid syndrome
• • Spondyloarthropathies
• • Ankylosing spondylitis
• • Reactive arthritis (Reiter’s syndrome)
• • Psoriatic arthritis
• • Enteropathic arthritis
• • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Vasculitis

• • Polyarteritis nodosa
• • Henoch-Schönlein purpura
• • Wegener’s granulomatosis
• • Giant cell arteritis
• • Temporal arteritis
• • Behçet’s syndrome
• • Hypersensitivity vasculitis
• • Buerger’s disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)

General Medicine

• • Acute medical problems and general medical problems

Sports Medicine

• • Soft tissue problems, sports injuries and rehabilitation
• • Ankle Sprain
• • Achilles Tendonitis
• • Back Pain
• • Groin Strain
• • Hamstring Strain
• • Knee Joint Injury
• • Runner’s Knee
• • Shin Splints
• • Shoulder Injury
• • Stress Fracture
• • Tennis/Golf Elbow
• • Disc disease and treatment

Personal Injury

Investigation and treatment - including the interplay of effects of injury and previous rheumatic disease.

• • Post injury rheumatic disease
• • Nerve injury
• • Compression syndromes
• • Work-related injury
• • Work related upper/lower limb disorders
• • Inflammatory and traumatic spinal problems
• • Chronic pain
• • Disability
• • Whiplash
• • RSI
• • Rehabilitation
• • Treatment
• • Connective tissue disorders
• • Regional pain syndrome
• • Immunopharmacology
• • Clinical governance.
• • Neck and back injuries
• • Spinal pain
• • Disc-related back pain and sciatica

Professor Tahir is available to be instructed on behalf of either claimant or defendant or as a Single Joint Expert, for consultations, examinations and preparations of medico-legal reports, including desktop reports. He is available for court appearances and conferences with counsel in preparation for the case. Emergency reports can be undertaken.

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