Diagnose precisely
A working diagnosis before any intervention — clinical exam first, then targeted imaging (ultrasound or MRI) only when it will change the plan.
Consultant · Interventional MSK · Sports Medicine
Movement restored,
precision applied.
UK-trained. Aims to minimise unnecessary surgical interventions, build movement first, and let ultrasound-guided regenerative medicine do the work the body was built to do. Consults at Adria Medical (Abu Dhabi) and DISC (Dubai), in English or Arabic.
- 10+
- years' experience
- Minimally
- invasive — a wide range of ultrasound-guided procedures
- EN·AR
- bilingual care
One visit: assessment · ultrasound · intervention
Ultrasound-guided cartilage mapping · assessment, injection, PRP, rehab in one visit
- MBChBMedicine & Surgery — Al-Anban, Iraq
- MRCGPRoyal College of General Practitioners, London
- CCT–PRMBrit. Board Certificate in Physical & Rehab Medicine (CCT), UK
- EBPRMFellowship — European Board of P&R Medicine
- Dip MSK RCSPostgrad Diploma in Musculoskeletal Medicine, RCS Edinburgh
- DIP MSK SOMMPostgrad Diploma in Musculoskeletal Medicine, SOMM (UK)
- DABRMDiplomate — American Board of Regenerative Medicine
- AAPM&RInt'l Certificate of Achievement — Am. Academy of P&R Medicine
- DFSEMDiplomate — British Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine
- DIP FSEMPostgrad Diploma in Exercise Medicine, FSEM (UK)
- FIFAPostgrad Diploma in Football Medicine, FIFA
- MSOMMMembership Exams — British Soc. of MSK Medicine (SOMM)
- BSRMMember — British Society of P&R Medicine
- BASEMMember — British Assoc. of Sports & Exercise Medicine
- EDGEClinical Supervisor Certificate — Edge Hill University, UK
- MSK-USFellowship in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, England (UK)
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About the consultant
Dr. Shimas Salih is a UK-trained Consultant in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine — helping athletes, professionals and families return to the lives they love, with ultrasound-guided accuracy and genuinely personal care.
In the UAE since 2022 — Healthpoint, then DISC Sports Medicine, and now primary practice at Adria Medical (Abu Dhabi) — his work aims to minimise unnecessary surgical interventions. Conservative, exercise-led, and ultrasound-guided regenerative care when the body can repair itself.
Fewer surgeries. Better movement. Measurable recovery.
— The working motto
Consults in English العربية
Career timeline
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2015
MBChB
University of Anbar, Iraq.
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2019
Specialist training · CCT–PRM
North West Deanery, United Kingdom.
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UK
Consultant practice, UK
Consultant-level MSK and PM&R practice.
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2022
Healthpoint Abu Dhabi
Consultant PM&R (Mubadala Health). Part of the official medical team, Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open 2025.
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Now
DISC Sports Medicine, Dubai
Consultant MSK & Sports Medicine, Dubai Healthcare City.
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Now
Adria Medical (Adria MC), Abu Dhabi
Primary practice — Mohammed Bin Zayed City (primary booking location).
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Conditions & procedures
The full clinical scope, in one consultable index — grouped by region, every procedure one tap from a WhatsApp conversation. Select an area below.
52procedures · 9 areasDiagnostic MSK ultrasound
Every pathway begins here — a working picture of the joint, tendon, muscle or nerve, in the room, before a treatment decision.
- Full-joint diagnostic ultrasoundDiscuss
- Tendinopathy & tendon-disorder assessmentDiscuss
- Muscle-injury & muscle-tear assessmentDiscuss
- Ligament-injury & disruption assessmentDiscuss
- Acute & chronic musculoskeletal imagingDiscuss
- Sports-injury ultrasoundDiscuss
- Dynamic US for mechanical & movement disordersDiscuss
Interventional & regenerative
The body's own repair, concentrated and placed under live ultrasound — PRP, whole blood, hyaluronic acid and prolotherapy, for the joints and tissues that wear.
- Dextrose prolotherapyDiscuss
- Regenerative injections — PRP & autologous whole bloodDiscuss
- Osteoarthritis of all major joints — regenerativeDiscuss
- Knee & ankle osteoarthritis prolotherapyDiscuss
- Thoracolumbar fascial hydrodissectionDiscuss
- Hyaluronic acid — hip, knee, ankle osteoarthritisDiscuss
- Hyaluronic acid — tendinopathyDiscuss
Spine & pain
Pain that follows a nerve gets a nerve-level answer — epidurals, facet and paraspinal blocks, and hydrodissection for the specific pressure that is causing it.
- Caudal epidural — sciatica & lumbar disc diseaseDiscuss
- Lumbar facet-joint injectionsDiscuss
- Intermuscular fascial hydrodissection — neck, upper & low backDiscuss
- Paraspinal & quadratus lumborum blockDiscuss
- Nerve hydrodissection — carpal, cubital & tarsal tunnel; peroneal; meralgia parestheticaDiscuss
- Superficial cervical-plexus hydrodissection — tinnitus & occipital headacheDiscuss
Shoulder
The most common complaints I treat — rotator cuff, calcific tendons, frozen capsulitis, and the hemiplegic shoulder after stroke.
Hip & periarticular
The deep spaces around the hip — psoas and ischial bursae, piriformis — and the joint itself, reached with millimetre precision.
Tendons & sports
The athlete's list — every overuse tendon in the body, plus compartment-pressure testing, haematoma aspiration, and return-to-play after tears.
- Regenerative injections — tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, patellar, Achilles, rotator cuff, gluteal, IT-band, distal bicepsDiscuss
- Adductor-origin tendinopathy & athletic pubalgia (sportsman's hernia)Discuss
- Compartment-pressure measurement — chronic exertional syndromeDiscuss
- Aspiration of intramuscular haematoma — muscle tearDiscuss
- Regenerative injections — muscle tearDiscuss
Foot & ankle
From the sole to the Achilles insertion — plantar fascia, metatarses, Morton's neuroma, and the bursae that hold up the heel.
Botox & spasticity
Precision botulinum toxin — focal spasticity of trunk and limbs, chronic muscle tightness, sialorrhoea, paediatric cerebral palsy, chronic migraine, and the jaw.
Hand & wrist
The fingers and the wrist — trigger points, De Quervain's, the extensor intersections, and the small entrapment nerves of the palm.
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The Approach — diagnose precisely. treat minimally. recover fully.
Treat minimally
Conservative, exercise-led care first. Ultrasound-guided regenerative procedures when the body can repair itself — interventions that are minimal, image-checked, and proposed only when they change the outcome. Never a default, never a reflex to surgery.
Recover fully
Structured exercise prescription — movement medicine, healthy living. Measurable return-to-baseline targets, with a plan you can feel in your joints, not just your head.
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For athletes
Football, running, tennis, and court and contact sports. The assessment that matters for sport is not just the injury — it is what the athlete can do, and when they can do it safely again.
- FIFA Diploma in Football Medicine
- Diploma in Exercise Medicine, UK
- DFSEM — British Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine
- MSOMM — Society of Orthopaedic & Musculoskeletal Medicine
- Part of the Healthpoint medical team — official medical partner, Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open 2025
- Return-to-play assessments & structured rehab
01 · The clinical lens
Every joint, read in real time.
Diagnostic ultrasound puts the problem in front of us before it goes in front of you — no guesswork, no unnecessary injections, no delay.
What we see, we map: tendon, cartilage, ligament, nerve. Then we choose the least invasive path that will actually work — with a rehabilitation plan attached from day one.
- 01Assess — history, exam, load analysis
- 02Scan — diagnostic MSK ultrasound in the room
- 03Intervene — only what the scan justifies
- 04Rehabilitate — structured plan toward measurable recovery
05 · In Motion
What precision looks like.
The pathway every patient travels — seen the way Dr. Salih sees it: at the scanner, under the probe, and back in motion.
01 · Diagnose
Live ultrasound imaging
High-resolution MSK ultrasound reveals tendon tears, joint effusions and nerve irritation in real time — in the room, during your first visit.
02 · Treat
Image-guided precision
Every needle is placed under live ultrasound — PRP, steroid or hyaluronic acid delivered exactly where it heals, and nowhere it shouldn't.
03 · Rehabilitate
Back to full range
Structured, measurable rehabilitation rebuilds strength and confidence — until the joint moves the way it was designed to.
02 · See the care
The practice, moving
How the consultation really runs — from talking through your case to the scanner to the needle to the plan.
“The whole picture, in one visit — how I treat MSK.”
Live ultrasound — what we see, in real time
Image-guided injection — precision, minimal
The knee — why it wears, and how we fix it
Spine and disc — a working model
Every case is a person — the consultation first
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Selected publications
Work that supports the practice
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2014
Scleroderma — a case study
InnovAiT (Sage Journals) · peer-reviewed case report
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2020
Bony Spurs in a Below-Knee Amputation: A Case Review
Journal of Physiotherapy & Physical Rehabilitation
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2020
Rehabilitation Medicine and Covid-19 at a Glance: Short Communication
Journal of Physiotherapy & Physical Rehabilitation
Peer-reviewed work in the same field as the practice — published, not self-described.
08 · In the room
Nothing in this whole world is better than stopping people's pain.
Every patient walks in with a story — a bad morning, a missed season, a knee that creaks on the stairs. Every patient should walk out with a plan, a reason to be optimistic, and a timeline they can see.
That is why the consultation is as important as the intervention — history, exam, imaging, and a rehab plan that fits the athlete, office-worker, or parent actually sitting next to me.
My sincere thanks and appreciation — for putting me on the right path to recovery.
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In their words
From public Instagram posts — patients and colleagues, in their own words (user names removed)
“I can fully support this; not only as a fellow doctor, and also as a patient. Dr. Shimas treated my own frozen shoulder, and I experienced firsthand his great professionalism and excellent technique. Highly recommended!”
“After two very hard years with a shoulder injury that kept me away from swimming, I finally swam 500 meters without pain. Then I found Dr. Pablo Menéndez, who guided me to a specialist who dissolved the calcification, injected my own plasma, and gave me physiotherapy — now I swim crawl without pain. The most important 500 meters of my life. Thank you, Dr. Shimas.”
“My sincere thanks and appreciation to Dr. Shimas for his exceptional care. With God’s help, his expertise helped identify my chronic injury and put me on the right path to recovery. Truly grateful for your dedication and support.”
Shared here with thanks — all three are public Instagram posts; user names removed.
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Frequently asked
For most private consultations, no referral is required. A few insurance plans do require prior authorisation — the clinic will run this with your insurer when you book.
Adria MC and DISC work with most of the major UAE insurance panels. Confirm your plan with the clinic when you book; if authorisation is needed, the clinic runs it.
Platelet Rich Plasma is a regenerative treatment prepared from your own blood. It suits certain tendinopathies and joint conditions — not every injury. It is proposed only when it is expected to change your outcome; not as a default.
Two locations:
- DISC Sports Medicine — Unit 304, Block B, Building 27, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai
- Adria Medical (Adria MC) — Abu Dhabi (primary)
Yes. Consultations and written follow-up can be in English or Arabic (or both). State your preference when you book.
Ultrasound-guided injections are performed under local anaesthetic with fine needles. Most patients describe brief discomfort rather than pain, and can usually resume normal activity quickly.
Yes. While sports medicine is a special interest, Dr. Salih treats patients of all ages and activity levels — from everyday joint and tendon pain to complex neurological rehabilitation.
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Book a consultation
Primary practice in Abu Dhabi (Adria MC), with a dedicated MSK service in Dubai. The team will confirm availability and any required pre-treatment authorization.
Primary
Adria Medical · Adria MC — Abu Dhabi
Mohammed Bin Zayed City (MBC)
Adria Medical Center (Adria MC), Mohammed Bin Zayed City, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Hours: Mon–Sat 8am–10pm (confirm at booking)
Dubai
DISC Sports Medicine — Dubai
Dubai Healthcare City
Unit 304, Block B, Building 27, Ibn Sina Street, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai.
Hours: Mon–Sat 7am–7pm · Sun 9am–6pm (confirm at booking)
Call (Abu Dhabi)
+971 2 555 1551
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Email (Abu Dhabi)
info.ad@adriameduae.com