Back Pain
Back Pain
Back pain can be debilitating and prevent you from enjoying normal activities. If left untreated, back pain can have an enormous adverse effect on your quality of life and lead to frustration and depression. When simple treatments fail to improve your back pain, seeing a pain specialist is vital.
Diagnosis of Back Pain
Most causes of pain in your back are due to simple mechanical conditions, for example pain arising from the intervertebral discs, facet joints, muscles or other structures in the spine. However, there are other rare but serious conditions including disc herniation, vertebral fracture, infection and tumours. We use advanced MRI scanning to fully investigate the cause of your pain. The vast majority of MRI scans reveal wear and tear changes in the structures of the spine, which are often amenable to simple conservative treatment. Getting the right diagnosis of your back pain is vital.
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Treatment of Back Pain
Pain specialists understand the underlying causes for back pain, as well as the varying ways it can affect patients. Treatment is tailored specifically for each individual patient and you are free to ask as many questions as you need. We can provide you with:
- A full explanation of your back pain
- Individual treatment plans, whether your pain is acute or chronic
- Multidisciplinary care
- The latest analgesic medications
- Multimodal analgesia
- Specialist orthopaedic therapy and rehabilitation to improve the physical functioning of your spine
- The latest minimally invasive pain management procedures for back pain including epidural, facet joint and sacroiliac joint injections
- Advanced procedures including facet joint and sacroiliac joint radiofrequency denervation
- Surgical consultation, where indicated, for example where there is a disc prolapse.
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