Dr Mark Ridgewell Consultant in Sport, Exercise and Musculoskeletal Medicine

Dr Mark Ridgewell is a Consultant Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician. His main field is the management of musculoskeletal (bone, muscle and other soft tissue) and overuse injuries across the whole spectrum from elite performers to those who are starting a low-level exercise. He specialises in the prevention and management and rehabilitation of overuse injuries. Examples of what he sees include Shoulder, elbow and wrist pain, back and neck pain, hip, groin and knee pain, muscle injuries ankle sprains and foot pain. Dr Ridgewell has great experience in managing adolescent and female sports people, particularly the developing sportsperson. He uses diagnostic ultrasound scans in clinics and offers a wide variety of interventions such as injections with steroid, hyaluronic acid and platelet-rich plasma, as well as Shockwave (ESWT) therapy for tendon injuries.

Dr Ridgewell was appointed to the GMC Specialist Register in Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2010.

His current roles in elite sport are currently in Tennis where he is Lead Doctor for the major LTA tournaments across the UK and has worked as Tournament Players’ physician at the Wimbledon Championships, WTA Birmingham Classic and the HSBC Championships at queen’s Club London. For 5 years he was the Lead doctor at the Loughborough University National Tennis Academy in Loughborough University. He is currently also Consultant to Loughborough Lightning Netball and to the English National Ballet School.

He received the 2025 Dr Glick award, the highest and most prestigious honour within WTA Performance Health for his excellence in working with and caring for the players

Dr Ridgewell has worked at international level across a wide variety of sports including rugby (1991-2016); Lead Doctor with the England and Wales Cricket Board between 1999 and 2003; National First Team Doctor at the Football Association of Wales 2005-2013 and Lead Physician at the Welsh Institute of Sport from 2003-2020 (Athletics, Swimming, Triathlon, Hockey, Netball, Cycling, and Gymnastics).

Dr Ridgewell has been a Programme Director and Principal Lecturer at the Cardiff Metropolitan University and has acted as a mentor for many junior doctors and physiotherapists working in sport over the years.