Dr Shabbir Ahmad worked in general practice in South Yorkshire England for 22 years.
He has been a trainer for young doctors who wish to join general practice, in England.
More recently, he has been teaching family medicine to final year medical students.
His special interests are :
Chronic Disease management
Mental Health Issues
Women’s Health - Contraception - Long acting Reversible Contraception (Mirena, IUCDs, and Nexplanon), Menstrual disorders including PCOS.
Paediatrics
Bronchial Asthma and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
I graduated with a Bachelor of Science Masters in Physiotherapy from the University of Witwatersrand with a further Certificate in Orthopaedic Manipulative Therapy.
I have worked mainly in private practice as well as in a Commonwealth -funded inter-disciplinary practice at ECU focused on teaching students. I have tutored and assessed physiotherapy students from both the University of Curtin and Edith Cowan University I am a neuromuscular skeletal physiotherapist with a broad interest including neck and back pain , sports injuries and exercise rehabilitation and my skill-set includes joint and soft-tissue mobilisation ,strapping and dry needling. I treat private , Medicare , Workcover and road accident injuries.
Areas of interest:
Neck Pain,
Back pain
Exercise rehabilitation
soft-tissue mobilisation
Dry Needling
Sport injuries