Solutions We Offer

Before your first consultation

• Please give us your doctor’s referral.
  
• Please give us a summary from your GP if the referring doctor is not your normal doctor.
  
• Please complete our FPM New Patient Questionnaire. You can download this from our website or you can call our clinic and ask us to post or email the form.
  
• Please return these forms to us our clinic as soon as possible.

• We may ask you to attend a pre-consultation assessment.

• A pain medicine physician will perform a comprehensive assessment on each patient. This may need more than one consultation for us to fully understand your problem.
  
• From your consultation and assessment, a pain management plan will be formulated which may include a combination of our treatment options.

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Dangers of Polypharmacy    Play (9:54) 
Topical anti-inflammatories    Play 
Opioid (strong) analgesics    Play (11:36)
Understanding Pain: Brainman stops his Opioids    Play (1:46)
Faculty Pain Medicine position on Medicinal Cannabis    Read more

We often use nerve blocks to diagnose the cause of pain and to provide pain relief. They’re helpful where pain is coming from a single nerve or a small group of nerves. A nerve block involves injecting the nerves supplying the painful area with local anaesthetic to stop the pain signals being transmitted. A nerve block can help to confirm the source of your pain. Usually it will also provide immediate, short-term relief. A nerve block can also be used to predict whether another longer-lasting treatment, such as neurotomy, is likely to help.

Atlanto-Axial Joint Injection
Coeliac, Splanchnic, Hypogastric and Ganglion Impar Blocks    Read more         Play (1:48)
Discography    Read more
Facet, Costotransverse and Costovertebral Joint Injections
Hip Joint Injections    Play (1:49)
Ilio-Inguinal Nerve Block     Play (1:16)
Intercostal Nerve Block    Read more  
Lumbar Sympathetic Block     Read more         Play (1:59)
Medial Branch (Dorsal Rami) Blocks     Read more         Play (1:59)
Medication Absorption (Kinetic) Tests     Read more
Nerve Block Injections      Read more (PDF) 
Pump Debug and Myelogram     Read more
Occipital Nerve Injection     Read more
Rami Communicante Blocks
Sacroiliac Joint Steroid Injections     Read more         Play (1:09)
Selective Nerve Root Injections     Read more         Play (1:37)
Stellate and T2 Ganglion Blocks     Read more         Play (2:22)
Suprascapular Nerve Block     Read more         Play (1:41)
Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block    Read more
Trigger point injections     Read more

Local anaesthetic injections with or without steroid can relieve pain and stiffness, giving you the opportunity to undertake a graded exercise program and get you back on track. People with headache, neck, shoulder, arm, back, leg, knee pain may benefit.

Radiofrequency treatments provide medium duration pain relief. They can help some people with headache, back, neck, shoulder, hip and knee pains.

PENS (peripheral electrical nerve stimulation) is a new day procedure that can be both a test and treatment procedure. It is helping people with back, knee, ankle and other localised pains.

Spinal cord stimulators, peripheral nerve stimulators and spinal drug pumps can provide sustained pain relief and functional improvement in complex pain conditions and a second chance at life.

We can cover most parts of the body with one of these treatments.

Autologous Blood Injections   Read more
Caudal Epidural Steroid Injection    Read more
Hyaluronic Acid Injection
Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection     Read more         Play (1:52)
Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy     Read more        Play (1:52)
Epidural Adhesiolysis / Neuroplasty     Read more         Play (1:42)
Epidural Steroid Injection     Read more        Play (1:34)
Epidural Blood Patch     Read more
Genicular Nerve Radiofrequency Neurotomy
Lumbar Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy     Read more         Play (1:48)
Nucleoplasty (Percutaneous Disc Decompression)     Read more         Play (1:50)
PENS (Peripheral Electrical Nerve Stimulation)
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation    Read more
Pulsed Radiofrequency Treatment    Read more
Occipital Nerve Stimulation    Read more
Spinal Cord Stimulation     Read more         Play (2:31)
Spinal (Intrathecal) Drug Pump     Read more         Play (1:55)
Transcutaneous Pulsed Radiofrequency Treatment    Read more
Vertebroplasty     Read more         Play (1:22)
Ultrasound Guided Injection for Shoulder Pain     Play (1:16)

Infusions are like injections except they’re given over a longer period of time. Depending on what kind of nerves are carrying the pain signals, an infusion of phentalomine may provide relief.

Diagnostic Analgesic Infusion   Read more
Ketamine infusion   Read more
Lignocaine infusion    Read more
Magnesium infusion    Read more
Phentolamine infusion    Read more