Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant is an NHS Consultant MSK Physiotherapist and Sonographer with 30yrs clinical experience having worked in Elite Sport, MSK, Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Pain Management. He clinically leads a Primary Care MSK service in East Lancashire which incorporates MSK Ultrasound into MSK Orthopaedic Triage, Rheumatology, Pain service.

Michael has been using Ultrasound since 2005 having completed a PgCert in MSK Ultrasound from Cumbria University further training in Oxford with St. Luke’s Radiology, Harrogate and Italy with Prof Carlo Martinolli, Sono-skills in Amsterdam & Sonoanatomy in Barcelona with Prof Ingrid Moller & Louis Coronel.

He has a particular interest in Adhesive Capsulitis/Frozen Shoulder, ultrasound guided interventional treatments such as hydrodistension, calcific barbottage, tendon fenestration, High volume injection and guided injections both spinal and peripheral. He works one day a week in Rheumatology. He is an Honorary Lecturer on the MSK Ultrasound Programme at Cumbria and Salford Universities and at University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) on the post grad MSK/Orthopaedic modules including Injection Therapy, Advanced Clinical Practice and MSK First Contact Practitioner. 

Michael has extensive teaching experience in MSK US he is senior lecturer with Sports Medicine Ultrasound Group both diagnostic Ultrasound & Cadaveric US Guided Injections in London & Leeds and various national MSK ultrasound courses including Physiquipe Manchester.

He has presented at the Primary Care National Conference 2014 on the use of MSK ultrasound in primary care and at the British Medical Ultrasound Society Conferences in 2018, 2019, 2022 & 2025. 

He has published research on the use of US guided hydrodistension in the management of frozen shoulder in primary care 2017, 2026

Co Author Book Chapter: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: How Why & When. Elsevier: 2021.

Characteristics of patients seeking national health service (NHS) care for Achilles tendinopathy: A service evaluation of 573 patients. Musculoskeletal Science & Practice: 2024