Dr Celine Lakra details
Location:
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
GMC/GDC number:
7169757
Professional background
Dr. Celine Lakra is a consultant in physical and rehabilitation medicine at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, appointed in 2022. She is based in the hospital’s neuro-rehabilitation unit, delivering medical and rehabilitative care for patients recovering from acquired brain injury. Her primary clinical interests include focal spasticity management including botulinum toxin, and shoulder pain following neurological injury including ultrasound-guided injection therapies.
Dr. Lakra’s training spans neuro-rehabilitation at level 1 and level 2 units, spinal cord injury recovery, and prosthetics and amputation rehabilitative medicine. She has a post-graduate certificate in diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound.
She completed her medical training in London, earning her primary medical degree with distinction and honors from University College London. She holds a first-class honors BSc in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine.
Specialties
Research interests
Her areas of interest include managing focal spasticity and chronic shoulder pain following neurological injury.
Publications
- Lakra C, Higgins R, Beare B, Farrell R, Ajina S, Burns S, Lee M, Swayne O. Managing painful shoulder after neurological injury. Pract Neurol. 2023 Jun;23(3):229-238. doi: 10.1136/pn-2022-003576. Epub 2023 Mar 7. PMID: 36882323; PMCID: PMC7616867.
- Lakra C, Cohen H. A clinical review of the use of Botulinum Toxin type A in managing central neuropathic pain in patients with spinal cord injury. J Spinal Cord Med. 2022 Sep;45(5):651-655. doi: 10.1080/10790268.2020.1848278. Epub 2020 Dec 2. PMID: 33263489; PMCID: PMC9542712.
- Lakra C, Swayne O, Christofi G, Desai M. Autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord injury. Pract Neurol. 2021 Dec;21(6):532-538. doi: 10.1136/practneurol-2021-002956. Epub 2021 Aug 5. PMID: 34353860.
- Cowan H, Lakra C, Desai M. Autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord injury. BMJ. 2020 Oct 2;371:m3596. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3596. PMID: 33008797.
- Lakra, Celine; Desai, Manish. Heterotopic Ossification in a Patient with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury and Ankylosing Spondylitis: The Consequences of the Late Diagnosis. The Journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 3(3):p 97-100, Jul–Sep 2020. | DOI: 10.4103/jisprm.jisprm_20_20
- Lakra C, Ellis J, Lisk C, Smith P, Elliot K. Peer mentorship in medicine: a scheme for foundation trainees. Future Hosp J. 2016 Jun 1;3(Suppl 2):s37. doi: 10.7861/futurehosp.3-2s-s37. PMID: 31098266; PMCID: PMC6465889.