Who We Are

Prof Waqar Bhatti

Waqar is a consultant radiologist specialising in musculoskeletal and sports. He has worked as a personal radiologist to both Manchester premiership football clubs since 2007, and the radiologist to Lancashire County cricket club and several rugby clubs. He also worked at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and provided support to the 2012 Olympic teams based in Manchester.

Waqar provides support to British Cycling, British Athletics athletes, the national taekwondo team, the national ladies netball teams, and multiple other sports professionals including boxers and golfers.

Waqar believes in a strong team-based approach with sports physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, physiotherapists, and podiatrists. At The Football Clinic, we’re in regular contact with one another directly and via multidisciplinary meetings to discuss optimal case management and post-procedural therapy for patients.

Professor Bhatti specialises in:

  • Diagnostic radiology

  • X-rays

  • Ultrasounds

  • CT and MRI scans of the musculoskeletal system and the diagnosis of joint muscle and sports-related problems

  • Joint injection therapies

  • Steroidal joint injections to reduce joint inflammation

  • Hyaluronic acid aids with the lubrication of the joints and tendons

  • Dextrose injections for strengthening damaged ligaments

  • Specialised shoulder injection therapies

  • Shoulder hydrodilatation to relieve stiff painful or frozen shoulders and have successfully performed several thousand

  • Shoulder barbotage to relieve the severe symptoms associated with the buildup of calcium within the tendon

  • Suprascapular nerve blocks to relieve rotator cuff tendon related chronic pain

  • Biological treatments including

  • Autologous conditioned plasma in the treatment of early osteoarthritis,

  • Platelet-rich plasma therapy (PRP) for the treatment of tendon disease including tendinopathy and tendon tears and refined platelet-rich plasma therapy for osteoarthritis

  • Fat derived stem cell treatment

  • In my NHS practice at the University Hospital of South Manchester, I developed the first comprehensive musculoskeletal ultrasound diagnostic and therapeutic service in Manchester and MR arthrography service, and over the years have performed thousands of these procedures.