The Pain Clinic effectively treats all types of pain and relieves thousands of patients throughout the year, giving them a better quality of life, using modern and scientifically thorough approaches. Also, our Clinic is the first to use combined fluoroscopy and ultrasound techniques with the direct collaboration of Neurosurgeon - Anaesthesiologist, innovating in the application of the field of neuromodulation where the latest technologies are applied.
The main objective remains to improve the quality of life and to relieve the daily torture of pain.
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Pain is defined as the "unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage" (IASP, 1979). No matter how one understands the concept of pain, pain is not only a symptom, but also a disease.
"One in two adults in Europe over the age of 65 suffers from chronic pain."
With the progress and extension of age limits, as well as the number of cases that are now recognized as cases of chronic pain, the need for a specialised Pain Clinic is high. This Clinic can offer conservative and invasive solutions to the patient, using methods that are common practice in most European countries. The aim of these methods is to:
The alleviation of the feeling of pain
Improving the functionality of the individual
Improving the quality of life of patients suffering from chronic pain
Objective of the Pain Clinic
The Pain Clinic of St. Luke's Hospital aims at the complete management patients with chronic pain, of any aetiology, through the following:
Diagnostic methods. These methods classify, separate, interpret and discover the sources and extensions of pain, with the help of both the Hospital's laboratories (Microbiology, Radiology, CT and MRI scanner), as well as the diagnostic blockades of nerves and ganglia.
Counselling. It helps the attending physician to proceed with the appropriate actions that will relieve his patient.
Therapeutic interventions. In collaboration with the patient, we choose the most appropriate therapeutic approaches, pharmaceutical or invasive, based on modern scientific data, with modern minimally invasive techniques and refined interventions in the nervous system, without promising miraculous and magical treatments.
Monitoring. Monitoring of patients includes reassessment and evaluation, as well as the regulation and adaptation of treatment and the parameters of implanted systems (neurostimulators and pump replenishment in chronic therapies).
Co-ordinating. Informs and assists other specialties involved in chronic pain sufferers or patients with malignancy, in managing the side effects of treatments that may occur in them.
To whom is the Pain Clinic addressed?
Some typical conditions that lead the patient to the doctor's office are the following:
Various types of neuralgia
Headache, migraine
Degenerative diseases of the spine and joints, such as arthritis of the upper and lower extremities, pelvis and spine, rheumatism, sacroiliac syndrome and apophyseal joint syndrome.
Chronic musculoskeletal pain, tendinitis and enthesopathy
Coccygodynia
Chronic neck pains, dorsalgia and back pains, which are particularly common
Post-traumatic pain, such as brachial plexus lesions, etc.
Postoperative chronic pain, which lasts for over 3 months
Chronic pain due to malignancies, such as visceral pain, pelvic pain and bone tumours
Benign chronic visceral pain and pelvic pain
Fibromyalgia, pain syndromes CRPS I & II, phantom limb syndrome
Chronic pain of neuromas and other nerve injuries
Diabetic polyneuropathy, diabetic foot
Ischaemic pain not responding to the treatments of the respective specialties, such as peripheral ischemic vascular disease and resistant chest pain
Therapeutic interventions offered by the Pain Clinic
The therapeutic interventions offered by the Pain Clinic include the following:
Combination of appropriate drugs (analgesic drugs, anti-inflammatories, anticonvulsants, etc.)
Non-invasive methods (with physiotherapy as the main method)
Directed infusions of steroids, prolotherapy, PRP, stem cells and blockades of nerves and ganglia
Application of radiofrequency for all appropriate conditions (classical and pulsed RF)
Implantation of pain pump
Neuromodulation with stimulation electrodes peripherally (peripheral neurostimulation, PNS) and in the spine (spinal cord neurostimulation, SCS), but also in the brain (mcs motor cortex stimulation, deep brain stimulation DBS)
Which medical specialty is involved in the treatment of pain?
The medical specialty that deals with pain relief is Algology. The Algologist is an Anaesthesiologist specialising in the diagnosis, control and treatment of all kinds of pain described above. In general, the types of pain are as follows:
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