Tired and in pain: Peripheral and central mechanisms of muscle pain and fatigue

Mr Mark Phillips is a hand and wrist surgeon with a subspecialist interest in treating musicians. Initially, a general Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon at King’s, his subspecialisation led him to upper limb, and gradually excluded shoulder work. In the last 6 years he has left the NHS and inhered a busy musicians hand practice which now forms about 70% of his case load.

He is a keen amateur jazz trumpeter, which fits well with his clinical practice.

Anna Kuppuswamy is a clinical neuroscientist investigating the neural mechanisms of post-stroke fatigue. Her lab uses a multi-pronged approach to understand the behavioural, perceptual, phenomenological and neurophysiological basis of post-stroke fatigue, by combining non-invasive brain stimulation and behavioural techniques.

Anna trained as a physiotherapist in India before moving to the UK to train as a neuroscientist. After completing her PhD at Imperial College London, she moved to the National Institutes of Health in the USA to start her work into fatigue. She then moved back to the UK, and continued her work into post-stroke fatigue at UCL funded by the Stroke Association senior fellowship. She started her lab in 2016 funded by the Wellcome Trust/ Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, and is the Principal Investigator of the Effort Lab based at Institute of Neurology at Queen Square.