Dr George Bownes

Dr George Bownes is a highly experience Sport & Exercise,  Musculoskeletal Medicine Consultant with more than 15 years’ experience working across elite sport, the military and clinical rehabilitation.

He has been part of the UK’s High Performance Network, supporting Premiership Football and Rugby, Olympic and Paralympic athletes as well as World Tour Tennis Players.

He is the Founder of Citius Health & The Citius Retired Athlete Programme, an innovative Sports Medicine community of leading practioners focused on recovery and return to activity following an injection of Arthrosamid for the treatement of knee osteoarthritis.

Dr Bownes has previously served as a Club Doctor at Harlequins Rugby Club for over 10 years, including during their Premiership title win in 2021. He has also held medical roles with Chelsea FC, Southampton FC and the English Institute of Sport (now known as the UKSI). Within Olympic sport, he was Chief Medical Officer for British Sailing as well as Brtish Skeleton supporting Team GB athletes including Lizzy Yarnold MBE, who became the first British Winter Olympian to defend an Olympic gold medal in 2018. For 6 years he worked as a Tournament Physician at The Championships, Wimbledon.

In parallel with his sports roles, Dr Bownes has previously worked extensively in military rehabilitation at DMRC Headley Court and Stanford Hall, leading multidisciplinary teams in complex musculoskeletal injury management.

His clinical interests include knee arthritis, upper and lower limb injuries, back pain, tendinopathies, stress fractures, osteoarthritis, shockwave therapy, diagnostic and interventional ultrasound and injections of PRP, Hyaluronic Acid & Arthrosamid.

Outside of medicine he enjoys all manor of sporting activies from Metrix, Hyrox, Ultras, Cycling, Water Sports & of course Padel.