Pain management

This involves pain management injections.

Spinal Cord Stimulation is a safe treatment used to treat patients in whom chronic pain has significantly limited their activities of daily living. This may include conditions such as Neuropathic pain (nerve related pain), failed back surgery syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, post-traumatic neuropathic pain.

The implant is an electrical device that can change some of the pain messages that your body is sending to your brain, and reduce the amount of pain that you are experiencing. The stimulator works by sending very small amounts of electricity to parts of the spinal cord. You will feel this as slight tingling over the area that is usually painful.

The idea behind what we do is to help you do more in your life, even though you have a lot of pain. We don’t use drugs or other treatments. Instead, we teach you how to be more in charge of your life. All this begins when you are with us, but you will be able to continue to improve when you are at home again.

People who have been in pain for a long time often become unfit or are out of condition, because they aren’t able to do as much as they used to. This lack of fitness makes a person have other aches and pains. Also, unfit people seem to feel pain more. One of the things that we do is to help you become fitter.

We aim to teach you ways of planning your day so that pain is less of a problem. We also can teach ways of relaxing to allow you to deal with pain better.