Pain Management Clinic

Our Advantages

• Our pain diagnoses and treatments include medication as well as other protocols, to alleviate the discomfort.

• Each patient can choose the course of pain management together with the hospital’s multi-disciplined medical professionals.

• Our holistic approach allows us to pay close attention to the patients’ needs and empowers them to take care of themselves with proper understanding.

• Together with each patient we construct the treatment’s goal for the patient’s chronic condition, emphasizing life style modification with the aim to allow the patient to live a quality life.

Medical Services

For pain management, we provide services according to the following categories:

• Acute Pain – The condition has arisen within less than 3 months. For example:

  • • General acute pain such as muscles pain around the body or a certain area.

    • Post-Surgical Pain Syndrome such as post amputation pain syndrome.

• Chronic Pain – The patient has experienced the condition persistently for longer than 3 months. For example: 

  • • Difficult to manage pain such as neuropathic pain, nerves pain due to injury or infection – such as shingles.

    • Severe pain due to pancreatitis that requires strong pain medication or some type of nerve block procedures, etc.

    • Patients with chronic pain.

    • Patients suffering from vascular disease or restricted blood flow, such as diabetic lesions that have already been treated by a specialist but still cause pain. 

• Cancer Pain – There are several causes for cancer pain. For example:

  • • Pain due to cancerous growth that puts pressure on a nerve and has spread to the bone.

    • Abdominal or back pain from cancer in the upper abdomen area, such as pancreatic cancer.

    • Pain caused by cancer treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery, etc.

    • We also provide guidance on palliative care, including total pain management, for patients whose cancer has spread.

Tools and Treatment Methodology

Pain management medication that includes various classes of medicine: non opioid (e.g., NSAIDs), opioids, and adjuvant analgesics.

• Pain Management Protocol

  • • Trigger Point Injection or Dry Needling for a case with muscle pain such as myofascial pain syndrome.

    • Epidural Steroid Injection utilizing selective nerve root block and/or interlaminar techniques, allowing steroid to be injected into the area of back pain that also propagates along spinal nerves affected by the condition.

    • Facet Joint Injection that introduces local anesthesia and/or steroid into a facet joint to treat pain that does not shoot down the legs.

    • Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) that converts radio frequency into heat around the tip of a needle at intervals, to help treat chronic pain – for example, when the patient responds well to facet joint injection and there is a need to extend the effect by another 6 – 12 months.

    • Sympathetic Block which impedes sympathetic nervous system that affects arteries and causes sympathetically maintained pain of the limbs – for example, due to an accident.

    • Neurolytic Celiac Plexus Block via an injection that eliminates autonomic nerves around celiac plexus, using neurolytic agent (e.g., 50 – 90% alcohol), for severe cases with cancer in the upper abdomen area such as pancreatic cancer.

    • Intrathecal Drug Delivery Device Implantation that places a small device for delivering pain management drug directly to the spinal cord. The device is inserted under the abdominal skin and is suitable for patients who need such a high dosage of opioids medication that the drug’s side-effect may be undesirable.  The device can be a fully implanted intrathecal pump or one with a reservoir that can be refilled periodically.

    • Spinal Cord Stimulation through an implant of a small device that generates and directs a low current into the spinal cord, to help manage the patient’s pain.  This is appropriate for cases with complex regional pain syndrome.