What is pain?

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage (International Association for the Study of Pain).

What are the factors responsible for development of pain?
Trauma, surgery, cancers, obesity, diabetes, neuropathy, ADIS, old age, osteoarthritis, modern lifestyle.

Why pain relief is important?
Pain can affect the physical, mental, financial and social well-being of the affected.

Is chronic pain preventable?
Yes – daily exercises and correct treatment in the acute stage of pain and early intervention can help prevent chronic pain.

How do you treat pain?
Multimodal management is the latest and safest way of treatment.

What is interventional pain management?
Specialized minimally invasive injection techniques block nerves that carry pain impulses. Drugs or radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is also used.

Is pain curable?

Symptomatically, pain is curable with pain management even in chronic and ‘incurable’ diseases like cancer and old age. Interventional pain management is necessary to improve quality of life.

What are the advantages of interventional pain management?

• Daycare procedure.
• Cost-effective.
• No cut/scar.
• Early return to work and everyday life.
• Fewer requirements of pain medicines.

How do treat back pain?
Back pain can be treated with facet joint block, percutaneous disc procedures, decompression and nerve blocks.

What is advance pain management?

Radiofrequency nerve ablation — nerves can be numbed precisely by specific heat lesions without side effects.

Neuromodulation — spinal and peripheral stimulators are used to treat chronic back pain, leg pain, migraine and other chronic pain not relieved by conventional means.

Intrathecal drug delivery system — delivers very low doses of drugs at spinal cord pain receptors to block pain. Used to treat cancer pain and spasticity.

What do you treat at pain clinic?

• Headache, Migraine.
• Trigeminal neuralgia, occipital neuralgia.
• Neck pain.
• Back pain.
• Radiculopathy (pain originating in the neck or back, running down the arm or leg) sciatica.
• Prolapsed interventional disc, spondylitis, spinal stenosis.
• Chronic pain following back or neck surgery, failed back syndrome.
• RSD – reflex sympathetic dystrophy (CRPS 1 or 2)
• Myofascial pain, fibromyalgia.
• Post-surgical pain and post-trauma pain.
• Herpes zoster, post herpetic neuralgia.
• Diabetic neuropathy pain.
• Vascular (ischemic pain)
• Phantom limb pain (post amputation)
• Knees and other joints.
• Chronic chest pain.
• Cancer pain.