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RECENT ADVANCES IN ENDOSCOPIC PROCEDURES:
Acute Pain
Our specialists uses various regional anaesthesia techniques, to alleviate all 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.
Modern concepts of preemptive , preventive and protective analgesia and multimodal analgesia maximized.
Chronic Pain
Up-to-date therapy for all common aches and pains eg: Headaches, Low Back Pain, Chronic Neck and Shoulder Pain, Nerve Pain ( eg: Postherpes neuralgia ) and Arthritis.
Detailed investigative procedures are carried out to evaluate the various cause for pain prior to management.
Interventions include various fluoroscopic guided epidural and nerve sleeve injections, sympathetic blocks, vertebroplasty, discogram for diagnosis, percutaneous neucleoplasty, radiofrequency lesioning, cryotherapy, and implant of spinal cord stimulator.
Acupuncture and physician directed pain management cognitive behavioural therapy are also offered when indicated.
Cancer Pain
Pain must not be endured especially in Cancer. The minimum any cancer patient deserves is pain relief.
From Nerve Blocks to desensitisation to implants (eg computerised implantable pump) to alleviate pain, we relieve pain without the use of high doses of morphine and therefore avoid the side effects of these drugs. |
