HOMEPAGE GENERAL CLINIC SERVICES INTERVENTIONAL CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT CLINIC
Interventional Chronic Pain Management Clinic
Services
At the Interventional Chronic Pain Management Clinic of IASO Thessalias, the scientific team aims, by using the most modern and safest techniques, to help in the effective treatment of chronic pain syndromes, whether benign or malignant in origin. The approach with regard to each patient involves the creation of an individualized treatment plan, based on the underlying pathology, their history and accompanying health problems.
Pain syndromes that can be treated with minimally invasive techniques
Low back pain - sciatica Persistent postoperative back pain Dorsalgia - intercostal neuralgia Cervicalgia - brachialgia Cervico-occipital pain Chronic shoulder, elbow, radiocarpal, knee, hip, ankle arthritis Frozen shoulder Tendonitis - lateral epicondylitis - ligament and muscle injuries Sacroiliac joint pain Greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS) Piriformis syndrome Tailbone pain (coccydynia) Fibromyalgia, rheumatic diseases Headache Trigeminal neuralgia Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) Sympathetic dystrophy and causalgia Chronic pancreatitis Cancer pain Peripheral artery disease (PAD) Phantom limb pain Chronic pelvic and visceral pain Peripheral neuropathy
Treatments provided by the clinic
Acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, electroacupuncture Functional magnetic stimulation to treat musculoskeletal, traumatic, neurological and pelvic pain syndromes Ultrasound-guided joint injections Peripheral nerve block via ultrasound and nerve stimulator Mesotherapy Regenerative treatments of joints and ligaments (platelet-rich plasma injections, prolotherapy) Botox injections for chronic pain syndromes Sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) block via endocrine swab Ultrasound-Guided block of peripheral branches of trigeminal nerve Occipital nerve block
Minimally invasive surgical techniques
They are performed in the operating room under fluoroscopic or ultrasound guidance and using local anesthesia or conscious sedation
Epidural injection into the cervical-thoracic-lumbar spine Caudal epidural injection Transforaminal epidural injection Facet (zygapophyseal) joint injections Thoracic paravertebral block Suprascapular nerve block Facet joint radiofrequency denervation Peripheral joint radiofrequency denervation Peripheral nerve cryoablation, pulsed radiofrequency Laser discoplasty Sacroiliac joint injection and denervation Stellate ganglion block Splanchnic nerve block Lumbar sympathetic block Superior hypogastric plexus block Ganglion impar block Gasserian and sphenopalatine ganglion block and denervation Occipital nerve radiofrequency ablation Peripheral nerve stimulation Spinal cord stimulation Sacral nerve stimulation for vesicorectal disorders Implantation of continuous intrathecal drug delivery system aKyphoplasty
