Professor Nick Webborn is one of the UK’s leading sports medicine specialists and currently holds the role of Head of UK Sport. Nick established Sportswise in 1997 and saw it grow and evolve before passing the clinic over to Jo and Paul Aston in 2022. He has a huge range of sporting expertise in many sports but in particular football, swimming, tennis and athletics.
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Nick is a world-leading expert in the area of Paralympic sport and was Chief Medical Officer for the London 2012 Paralympics and for the Invictus games in 2014. In 2016, Nick was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours list for services to Paralympic Sports Medicine and the British Paralympic Association and a CBE in the 2022 New Years Honours List, for services to Sport and Sports Medicine.
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Nick has a unique and innovative approach to medicine, having undergone a major sporting injury earlier in his life. He understands the importance of an individualised holistic approach to treatment and rehabilitation of injury, as well as the use of physical activity in disease prevention and management. He has a wide range of skills including the use of diagnostic ultrasound for injury assessment, and of the use of ultrasound guided procedures to ensure the most accurate injection therapy.