| The Primary Care Pain Clinic |
Conditions Treated
• Psychosocial aspects of pain
• Psychological and behavioural interventions
• Multidisciplinary pain management
• Low back pain
• Myofascial pain
• Neuropathic pain
• Headache
• Chronic Low back pain
• Acute Low Back Pain
• Sciatica
• Brachalgia
• Chronic Neck Pain
• Tempero Mandibular Joint Pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Regional Pain Syndrome
ProceduresPerformed
Flouroscopic Guided Spinal Injection,Trigger point injections, dry needling, Intra Muscular Stimulation, Acupuncture, Joint injection, Ultrasound Guided injection, Medication and medical management of pain
Exclusion
Inflammatory joint pain e.g. of an active rheumatological cause, active infection, cancer pain, pain not of a musculoskeletal origin.
Required Investigations
For Chronic back pain X-rays of the lumbar spine FBC ESR or CRP
MRI is required for patients with Sciatica. MRI may be required if diagnostic uncertainty in low back pain.
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