Dr Jon Houghton

About Dr Jon Houghton

Dr Houghton is one of the UK's most senior and respected opinions in Sport and Exercise Medicine and Rheumatology. He has extensive elite sports experience, consulting with multiple premiership teams, the ECB, RFU, UK Sports Institute, and Olympic athletes. He previously worked at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court for 8 years managing the lower limb rehabilitation unit before joining Fortius Clinic in 2016. His clinical interests include tendon pathology, bone stress injuries, hip and groin pain, and inflammatory arthritis. He established a complex lower limb tendon clinic in 2017 and runs an elite bone stress clinic. He has served as Chief Medical Officer for the Football Association of Wales since 2013 and Surrey County Cricket Club since 2015.

Qualifications: MBBS BSc DipSEM DipMSKUS FRCP FFSEM

Recent and current appointments

• Chief Medical Officer and Team Doctor to the Football Association of Wales
• Chief Medical Officer Surrey County Cricket Club
• Elite Sport representative for the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine.
• Member of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine Ultrasound Committee
• Ex Chair of the Royal College of Physicians Sport and Exercise Medicine Committee
• Previous Head of Lower Limb Rehabilitation for the Armed Forces at DMRC Headley Court

Publications, lectures and teaching

• Previous Honorary Principal lecturer at the School of Sport, Cardiff Metropolitan University
• Ultrasound Examiner for the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
• A lead Author on the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine Ultrasound Training Guidelines
• Published on tendinopathy, Pars fractures, exercise Induced Leg pain, hip pain in the young adult and outcomes following hip arthroscopy

Society memberships

• Elected Fellow of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
• British Association of Sport and Exercise medicine
• British Society of Rheumatology