Category: Minimally Invasive Pain Management

Case Report CAUDAL EPIDURAL USING X RAY AND CONTRAST DYE A 49 year old lady was seen in the Pain Clinic. She had previously been treated by another clinic for her intermittent sciatica-like pain....

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Although many patients benefit from pulsed radiofrequency treatment, when the nerve or ganglion (a cluster of nerve cells) is treated by radiofrequency that is delivered in short ‘blasts’, there are still a lot of...

Introduction Facet joints are defined as the small joints located in pairs at each segment on the posterior or back of the spine. These joints are a little larger than the size of the...

Biosurgery and Synthetic Viscosupplementation Introduction Natural bio-materials have recently emerged as a major trend in surgical procedures. This is mainly due to their traits of bio-compatibility and their ability to integrate and remodel, with...

A 77 year old man was seen in the pain clinic, complaining of pain in his neck, lower back (L3/L4 region), and areas over his trapezius muscles of the shoulders. He also had some...

      What is a Facet Joint? The spine is made up of a number of building blocks, the vertebrae, which support the weight of the body. Between these are Intervertebral Discs, which...

  A case report of a patient with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome treated with gabapentin followed by a course of stellate ganglion nerve blocks which allowed the gabapentin dosage to be reduced.    ...

A 65 year old lady was reviewed in the Pain Clinic. She had undergone left shoulder hemiarthroplasty 2 years previously following a fall in a restaurant. This operation then needed to be revised. She...

A 45 year old lady presented to the Pain Clinic with Sciatica- like symptoms, including intermittent shooting pain travelling down the back of her right leg several times a day. She also complained of...