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Pain Doctors regularly explain that: “migraine affects many aspects of a person’s life – their work, education, relationships & mental health” [1]. Did you know that: “people in the UK lose a total of 43 million days from their work & education each year because of migraine?” Moreover, research conducted by The Migraine Trust...

When it comes to thinking about upcoming surgery, or even making a short visit to a Pain Doctor to have a minimally invasive pain management procedure, such as spinal cord stimulation or a nerve block; many patients can feel apprehensive, nervous, confused, or even frightened. Yet whilst experiencing such emotions are the norm, it...

As any Pain Doctor will tell you: “Pain interventional therapy is regarded as the most promising medical technology in the 21st century”. It refers to clinical treatment technology based on neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, and nerve block technology to treat pain diseases. Compared with traditional destructive surgery, interventional [and minimally invasive] pain therapy, is considered a...

“The experience of pain is different for every person, and there are various ways to feel and describe pain. This variation can, in some cases, make it challenging [for GPs] to define and treat pain” [1]. So to that end, whether you are suffering from short or long-term pain, and whether you are experiencing...

As a Pain Doctor will tell you: “nearly everyone has had headache pain, and most of us have had it many times. But if your headache is severe or unusual, you might worry about stroke, a tumour, or a blood clot. Fortunately, such problems are rare. Still, you should know when a headache needs...

The Low-Down Male pelvic pain (which is known as prostatitis), refers to: “inflammation of your prostate gland. Your prostate gland sits below your bladder, in front of your rectum. Your urethra (the tube that carries urine and semen out of your body), runs through the centre of your prostate” [1]. There are four types...

“Occipital Neuralgia is a rare neurological condition in which the occipital nerves (the nerves that run through the scalp), are injured or inflamed. This causes headaches that feel like severe shooting, piercing, burning, throbbing, or shock-like pain in the upper neck, back of the head or behind the ears” [1, 2]. When you consult...

“The concept and description of Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) started in the field of haematology (the study of blood and blood disorders). Haematologists created the term PRP in the 1970s in order to describe the plasma with a platelet count above that of peripheral blood, which was initially used as a transfusion product to treat...

As a Pain Doctor will tell you: PRP is the result of a step-by-step therapeutic procedure, in which a Pain Specialist extracts platelets from a patient’s blood, and directly places them in a specific region in the latter’s body, in order to rev up healing. Platelet-Rich Plasma has been shown help heal muscles, tendons...

As a Pain Doctor will tell you: “Migraines are about 3 times more common in women than men, & may affect more than 12 percent of the adult population. Migraines often run in families, & can start as early as infant school, but most often in early adulthood. They can fade away later in...