Tame the Pain

• What is chronic pain?
• Treatments for chronic pain
• Patient testimonials
• Pain centre location
• Resources

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• Non-surgical treatment
  • Physiotherapy
  • Psychological therapy
  • Alternative medicine
• Medication (Pain relieving medicines)
  • When drugs don’t work
• Electronic treatments
  • Neurostimulation (Nerve stimulation)
    • What is neurostimulation?
    • Why neurostimulation?
    • How does it work?
    • Clinical evidence
    • Who should have it?
    • What happens next?
    • System selection
    • Post-operative care
    • FAQs
  • Intrathecal drug delivery (IDD)
    • What is IDD?
    • Why IDD?
    • How does it work?
    • Clinical evidence
    • Who should have it?
    • What happens next?
    • Post-operative care
    • Living with an IDD pump
    • What are some of the risks of the pump therapy?
    • FAQs
• Surgery
  • Nerve blocking
  • Corrective surgery

Who should have it?

Usually, neurostimulation is most effective for nervous system based pain of the trunk or limbs caused by something other than cancer. Your doctor will consider a number of factors to decide if neurostimulation is right for you:

1. More common therapies have failed to adequately relieve the pain or have caused intolerable side effects
2. There is a disease associated with the pain
3. Another operation is unlikely to relieve the pain and might actually make matters worse
4. As chronic pain involves both your mind and body, there are no psychological aspects of the pain that need to be treated, including serious drug dependence
5. The neurostimulation test was successful.