Category: Minimally Invasive Pain Management

      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...

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      What is an Epidural? The word ‘Epidural’ refers to a space around the spine through which nerve roots leave the spinal cord, before travelling to the rest of the body. An...

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A 27 year old lady was seen in the Pain Clinic with sacroiliac joint tenderness. She was working as a nurse and over the last 2 years had had increasing pain from the lower...

Coeliac Plexus Block Introduction The coeliac plexus is a bundle of nerves that controls some of the unconscious but necessary actions performed by the pancreas, liver or upper intestines. It is located near the...

Hypogastric Plexus Block Introduction The hypogastric plexus is a collection of nerves located just in front of the fifth lumbar and first sacral vertebrae, or in the lower part of the abdomen in the...