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Richard Mannion is a consultant neurosurgeon and neurosurgery speciality lead at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. His main interests are spinal problems and brain tumours, specialising in tumours of the skull base and pituitary gland. He works on all aspects of spinal disease interest him including infection, tumours, trauma and degenerative / wear and tear conditions. In particular, he is interested in the role of minimally invasive spinal surgery in treating people with spinal problems having witnessed the advantages of keyhole techniques in his own patients. Richard completed a fellowship in Brisbane, Australia where he became skilled in all aspects minimally invasive spinal techniques and has built up a large minimally invasive spinal practice here in Cambridge.

Richard has a PhD in the field of chronic pain, having spent his research time in London and at Harvard University in Boston under Professor Clifford Woolf, a leading international pain specialist. Richard remains active in research and has published a large number of scientific papers on the subject of chronic pain, nerve pain, spinal disease and minimally invasive spinal techniques (see bibliography below).

Richard is married with 4 children.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Trigeminal Neuralgia
• Leg pain
• Lumbar radiculopathy
• Cervical myelopathy
• Cervical radiculopathy
• Thoracic Disc Prolapse