Mr Assad Raissi graduated from the London Foot Hospital and The School of Podiatric Medicine – The University College Medical School, London. He continued with postgraduate specialist training in Musculoskeletal and Neuro-Musculoskeletal Medicine in London, and graduated from The London College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1981. Following his studies at the University of Brighton and Westminster University, he worked clinically at Greenwich District Hospital, St Charles’ Hospital and The Middlesex Hospital. He has lectured widely in Musculoskeletal Medicine, and Functional and Clinical Anatomy and has served as Consultant Podiatric Surgeon & in Pain Management for West Essex University Foundation Trust for the past twenty years.