Landmark Hospital gets new Pain Clinic

Landmark Hospital unveiled a new ‘Pain Clinic’. The clinic is one which is multidisciplinary, combining experts from Anaesthesia, Orthopedics, Physiotherapy etc. It has been established with appropriate equipment and caters to patients of all specialties suffering with pain.

Most of the diseases and illnesses manifest themselves as pain and pain is the commonest symptom any patient presents to any doctor anywhere in the world. While treatment of the basic pathology is important treatment of pain is more important for the patient.

Sometimes the pain is severe and sometimes there is no identifiable basic for the pain, sometimes the basic pathology is incurable or sometimes even if the basic pathology is cured the pain remains. In all these situations it is of paramount importance to treat pain itself as a disease and treat pain itself as an individual entity.

Treating pain is no child’s play. It requires extensive understanding of pain mechanisms, pathways, neurophysiology etc. While Pain killers are certainly the most commonly used treatment there are many other advanced techniques to relieve pain.

Some of the advanced techniques offered are lFlouroscopy guided Spinal injections for back pain treatment: in many patients where there is chronic back pain due to facetal joint arthropathy any disc strains, these injections will give excellent relief

• Ozone discectomy (Or Ozonucleolysis) can be used in many cases of disc prolapse. This is an extremely effective alternative to surgery for a prolapsed disc, can be performed under local anaesthesia without any scar. And the patient can walk home after ashort recovery the same day.
• Platelet Rich Plasma is a revolutionary Pain treatment therapywhich involves harvesting concentrated platelets from your own body and delivering them to the damaged part of your body to help them rebuild the damaged part. This has great value in damaged joints, arthritis, damaged tendons and ligaments etc.
• Novel therapeutic agents which modify the neurotransmissions and neuroperception are also very valuable in threating pain
• Patients suffering from cancer suffer from excruciating pain and will immensely benefit from specaialised pain clinic.