Dave Baker

About Dave

Dave is one of the pioneers of physiotherapists performing ultrasound guided injections. With 20 years of clinical experience as a chartered physiotherapist specialising in musculoskeletal care, Dave is clinical director at Complete Physio Ltd, with extensive extended scope and advanced practice experience. Dave also holds a post as honorary lecturer at Brunel University teaching on post-graduate diagnostic ultrasound training program.

Dave is one of the few physiotherapists to complete his training to PG Certificate level as a musculoskeletal sonographer and combines this with his extension experience as an injection specialist.

Dave is Chairman of professional network and national clinical interest group Association for Chartered Physiotherapists with an interest in Orthopaedic Medicine and Injection Therapy (ACPOMIT). He has accepted a 3 year appointment as Specialist Adviser to NICE’s Interventional Procedures Programme.

As one of the first physiotherapists in the world to be fully trained as an independent prescriber of medication Dave has represented his profession on national media. Clinically Dave has performed over 1000 guided injections per year since 2007.