Our Services

 

Pain Level

Keep pain at a tolerable level to alleviate unnecessary suffering

Independence

Increase your independence

Restrictions

Reduce the restrictions of daily living

Sense of Well-Being

Improve your sense of well-being and control over pain

Narcotics and Sedatives

Decrease and possibly eliminate the need for narcotics and sedatives

Capacity

Develop the capacity to return to a normal life and to your work.

 

Complex pain problems require a specialised, holistic pain-oriented evaluation for successful management.

We Specialise in:

 
Low back pain

 
Neck Pain

 
Lumbar and Cervical Radiculopathy

 
Headache

 
Facial Pain

 
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

 
Cancer Pain

 
Neuropathic Pain

 
Pain After Surgery

 
Facet Arthropathy

 
Raynaud’s Disease

 
Chronic Abdominal Pain

 
Chest Wall Pain

 
Nerve Pain

 
Intractable Angina

 
Pelvic Pain

 
Groin Pain

 
Shingles Pain

 
Arthritis Pain

 
Fibromyalgia

 
Sports Injury Pain

 
Post-Accident Pain

 
Post-Stroke Pain

 
Post-Surgical Pain

 
Chronic Pain Syndrome

 
Complex Pain Syndrome

 
Disability Evaluation

Services available by THE PAIN SPECIALIST

Various advanced regional anaesthesia techniques, to alleviate pain from surgeries, trauma, and injuries, and to enable very early mobility of patients to improve outcome and avoid problems of prolonged bed rest. (Example: Continuous Femoral Catheter for Total Knee Replacement (Presented in AAOS’05, Washington DC, accepted for publication)

Modern concepts of pre-emptive, preventive, and protective analgesia and multimodal analgesia maximised.

Advanced therapy, with efficacious technologies and approaches from US, Europe and Australia for common aches and pains (E.g.: headaches, chronic low back pain, chronic neck and shoulder pain, nerve pain (e.g.: post-herpes neuralgia), and arthritic pain.

Detailed investigative procedure to evaluate the various cause for pain prior to management.

Interventions may include various fluoroscopic guided epidural and nerve sleeve injections, sympathetic blocks, vertebroplasty, discogram for diagnosis, nerve blocks for desensitisation percutaneous nucleoplasty, radiofrequency lesioning, cryotherapy, and implantation of spinal cord stimulator.

We relieve pain without the use of high doses of opoids, and thus avoiding their side.

Acupuncture, physician directed pain management, and cognitive behavioural therapy are also offered when indicated.

Pain must not be endured especially in cancer. The minimum any cancer patient deserves is pain relief.

Our pain centre takes a wholistic Approach to pain management for patients and their caregivers.

Pain can be effectively controlled and managed in most instances with the current advances of science to minimise the prolonged use of painkillers and unnecessary suffering. We offer the expertise and capabilities to diagnose, evaluate and treat your specific pain issues.

We use a multi-modal mechanistic approach, which means that a team of specialists with diverse expertise works with you and your primary care physician or specialist to determine the most appropriate treatment. The decision to control and manage your pain is a subject that you and your family physician or medical specialist need to discuss.