Chettinad Pain Clinic was inaugurated by the Vice Chancellor of Chettinad University Prof V. Raji in a recent function which was presided over by our CEO Mr Venkat Panidhar. DMS Dr. Saravanan, prominent physicians and enthusiastic hospital personnel attended the function. Prof V. Raji inaugurated the Pain Clinic by lighting the traditional Kuthuvillaku.
Chettinad Pain Clinic shall run a comprehensive, scientific treatment service in management of chronic and acute pain. Pain management is new specialty that deals with comprehensive, evidence based treatment of any pain syndrome that lasts more than 3 to 6 months. The conditions that can effectively treated are usually orthopedic especially spine related, cancer pain, gastrointestinal, neurological conditions, etc. The pain management team is typically multi disciplinary consisting of interventional pain physician, orthopedician, neuro physicians and surgeons, spine surgeon, oncologist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, palliative management experts and nursing staff. Chettinad Pain Clinic is well supported by the physiotherapy department in the hospital.
Patient information:
Anybody with long standing painful conditions affecting any part of the body may approach the pain clinic. Out patient services are provided in Consultation room No: 18 in the C block in Chettinad Super Specialty Hospital. Along with comprehensive treatment plans, physical therapy options and life style modification protocols are advised. Most of the pain interventional procedures are performed on day care basis – patients can go home on the same day. If required, patients are admitted and treated until absolute relief from pain is achieved. Patients are reminded promptly about timely medical checks and follow ups, so that patients remain pain free for the rest of their life time. Come to Chettinad Pain Clinic for pain free life. Say NO to pain.
Conditions that can be treated effectively:
- Back Pain
- Facet joint arthropathies, Intervertebral dics prolapse,
- Sacro iliac joint arthropathies
- Disc degenerative disease, spinal canal stenosis,
- Post surgical spinal pain, Radiculopathies
- Cancer pain originating from various parts of the body
- Headaches - Migraine/Trigeminal neuralgia
- Cervical radiculopathy, facetal arthropathy
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome(CRPS)
- Peripheral nerve neuralgias
- Sympathetically maintained pain
- Post herpetic neuralgia
- Vertebral compression fractures
- Fibromyalgia/ Myofascial pain
- Abdominal and pelvic pain from gynaecological and urological causes
- Meralgia paresthetica
- Coccydynia
- Post surgical chronic pain
Treatment options available:
Treatment modalities that the chronic pain clinic provides:
- Medications
- Pain interventions in the form of local anesthetic injections, steroid injections, Neurolytic blocks and radio frequency lesioning of affected nerves and ganglion.
- Physical therapy and Life style modifications
Procedures performed in Chettinad Pain Clinic
Pain interventions may be in the form of local anesthetic blocks, steroids injections, neurolytic blocks and radiofrequency lesioning of nerves and ganglion
- Cervical /Thoracic / Lumbar epidural steroid injections
- Facet joint injections/ medial branch radio frequency ablations
- Selective nerve root blocks / Dorsal root ganglion neuroablation
- Intradiscal procedures – provocative discography
- Percutaneous disc decompression (Decompressor, Nucleoplasty)
- IntraDiscal Electro Thermocoagulation (IDET)
- Annuloplasty, Biaculoplasty
- Epidural adhesion lysis
- Epidural decompressive neuroplasty
- Sarco iliac joint injections
- Intrathecal pumps
- Spinal cord stimulators
- Ozone nucleolysis
- Trigeminal ganglion neurolysis
- Sphenopalatine ganglion neurolysis
- Stellate ganglion block
- Celiac plexus neurolysis
- Splanchnic nerve block
- Lumbar sympathetic nerve block
- Superior hypo gastric plexus block
- Ganglion impar block
- Mysofacial trigger point injections
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