At Blackberry Clinic we treat patients with musculoskeletal conditions causing acute and chronic pain. We have specialist interventional pain medicine doctors who treat these conditions using various techniques. Our interventional pain medicine doctors have access to musculoskeletal ultrasound diagnostic machines and most procedures are performed using fluoroscopy x ray machines in specialised theatres in our clinics. We have this highly specialised pain clinic service available at Blackberry Clinic Milton Keynes, Blackberry Clinic Oxford, Blackberry Clinic Fareham, Blackberry Clinic Guildford, Blackberry Clinic Birmingham and Blackberry Clinic Croydon.
Traditionally, when over the counter medications stop working to relieve pain, some doctors may turn to strong pharmaceuticals or surgery to try helping their patients. Unfortunately, this can lead to over medication, unnecessary surgeries, and a population that is still without relief or improvement. Advancements in pain physiology research have led to the emergence of a new field of pain management that “intervenes” with the pain signals to the brain to allow for rest and rejuvenation. What interventional pain management options are available?
- Manual therapies like physiotherapy and osteopathy and chiropractic care bring relief to the structures in the back and relieve pinched nerves, restore mobility and rehabilitate muscles. Also, physical therapies identify and improve areas of weakness to maintain alignment and function.
- Radiofrequency Ablation uses radio waves to deliver soothing heat to irritated nerve tissues, disrupting pain signals from the spine to the brain and providing relief.
- Facet Joint Injections deliver a targeted combination of inflammation reducing steroid and pain-relieving anesthetic into the facet joint, to improve a patient’s ability to tolerate pain so they can better engage in rehabilitative physical therapy
- Epidural injections can be used to treat the pain caused by a prolapsed disc.
- Trigger Point Injections are especially useful when the source of pain is muscular. Injections of saline, anesthetic or corticosteroid into “knots” in muscles can relieve their grip around nerves and other soft tissue structures that leads to pain.
Our doctors are often anaesthetists and musculoskeletal pain specialists. Check out our website to see which doctors offer the interventional pain medicine service and injections.
