It’s about working with you to find the best treatment for you

What Dr Anita can offer…

Active listening and understanding of your symptoms and how these symptoms affect you as a person.

Examination and arranging investigations including blood tests and imaging as needed.

Making sense of the cause of the symptoms, results of investigations and the diagnosis.

Shared decision making on the management options to settle or ease your symptoms and prevent or reduce future flares.

Education and information to improve your understanding of the illness and medications.

Work together with other professionals when needed to provide specific and holistic care for you.

Joint and soft tissue injections and joint aspirations.

Prescribing and monitoring medications and using nonmedication methods for managing your symptoms.

Follow up reviews to ensure that you are reaching and maintaining the target outcomes.

Conditions Treated

 

Arthritis of any type, including:

  • Rheumatoid Arthritis

  • Psoriatic Arthritis

  • Axial Spondyloarthritis / Ankylosing Spondylitis

  • Reactive Arthritis

  • Enteropathic Arthritis (associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease)

  • Gout

  • Pseudogout

  • Osteoarthritis/ Degenerative Arthritis

Osteoporosis and Assessment of fracture risk
Vitamin D deficiency
Paget’s
Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Giant Cell Arteritis
Connective tissue diseases
Fibromyalgia
Chronic widespread pain
Chronic fatigue
Joint Hypermobility
Tenosynovitis:

  • De Quervain’s

  • Trigger finger

Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
Golfers elbow (medial epicondylitis)
Trochanteric bursitis
Achilles tendonopathy

Heel pain
Plantar fasciitis
Carpal Tunnel syndrome
Musculoskeletal pain
Neck pain
Back pain
Shoulder pain
Elbow pain
Wrist pain
Hand pain
Hip pain
Knee pain
Ankle pain
Foot pain

Tests available

The following Tests could be arranged or recommended as needed for diagnosis and monitoring of treatment or monitoring of disease.

Blood tests
Urine tests
Joint fluid tests

X-ray images
US scans
MRI scans
CT scans
DXA scan

Nerve conduction studies/EMG
Lung function tests
Echocardiograms

Treatments

 

Joint injections
Joint aspirations
Soft tissue injections
Steroids - tablets/injections

Analgesics

NSAIDs
Osteoporosis treatments

Lifestyle changes

Disease modifying anti rheumatic drugs /Immunosuppressive medications

Non pharmacological management options

  • “In every meeting with Dr Weerakoon she has been caring, helpful and reassuring and I will continue to see her to guide me through my recent diagnosis.”

  • “Dr Weerakoon could not have been more thorough. She listened to everything I said.”

  • “Nothing I said or asked was too much trouble and she took me very seriously.”

  • “Dr Weerakoon has a wonderful bedside manner; she listens to you and is very thorough in her examinations and explanations of what is going on and what options are available to ease and remedy the pain.”

  • “Dr Weerakoon’s administration is quick and efficient. Excellent communication also gave me reassurance that my health and well being were important and being addressed proficiently.”

  • “I’m extremely happy with both your knowledge and empathetic manner. I particularly valued the fact that you were prepared to listen to me and follow an approach that made me comfortable.”

  • “Thank you for being so caring and taking so much time and trouble in looking after me with my arthritis. May your wonderful work continue.”