Conditions we treat and treatments offered

Our specialists use a wide range of evidence-based treatment strategies to improve your pain. These include conservative and interventional pain management options for acute, persistent and cancer pain.

Examples of types of pain we treat:

  • Headaches and neck pain
  • Shoulder pain
  • Back pain
  • Knee pain
  • Ankle and foot pain
  • Pelvic and abdominal pain
  • Neuropathic pain (nerve pain)
  • Chronic widespread pain

Specific pain conditions we have a special interest in:

  • Complex regional pain syndrome
  • Knee pain – mechanical and neuropathic, pre-, and post-surgical
  • Persistent post-surgical pain
    e.g., post lumbar fusion or total knee replacement
  • Interventional pain management of back, knee, shoulder, abdominal and pelvic pain

Treatments offered, include but are not limited to:

  • Medication optimization
  • Psychology (through our allied health partners)
  • Physiotherapy (through our allied health partners)
  • Occupational therapy (through our allied health partners)
  • Intravenous pain infusions such as Ketamine and Lignocaine
  • Interventional pain procedures
    • Botox
    • Epidural injection (caudal/ lumbar/ cervical)
    • Nerve root injection
    • Facet joint block
    • Medial branch block
    • Sacro-iliac joint block
    • Cluneal nerve block
    • Supra-scapular nerve block
    • Stellate ganglion block
    • Ganglion impar block
    • Lumbar sympathetic block
    • Genicular nerve block 
    • Pulsed radiofrequency
    • Radio-frequency ablation