The Pain Unit
"Pain Unit" - This department for the treatment of chronic pain (generally regarded as an extended period of three months or more), is headed by a Senior Neurosurgeon, specialised in pain management for the past 25 years at the Regional University Hospital, Málaga.
The unit concentrates on pain from injury / compression of the nerve tissue (Neuralgia):
- raniofacial (head and face)
- Cervicobraquialgia (neck pain radiating to the arm)
- Intercostal (between the ribs)
- lumbar sciatic (lower back)
- Coccyx pain
- C.P.R.S. (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome – Sudeck’s atrophy)
In addition, this unit is specialised in treating:
- Headaches
- Myofascial pain by altering the muscular balance
- Neurovascular pain in extremities (Raynaud, Buerger syndromes)
- Osteo-degenerative processes (Facet syndrome, osteoarthritis, sacroiliitis)
- Lower back pain
- Failed back surgery
- Central nervous system spasticity
- Cancer / visceral pain
Treatments performed:
- Infiltration of the spine, large joints and muscle groups (the injection of local anaesthetics, steroids etc)
- Radiofrequency neurotomy (nerve block)
- Neurostimulation: cortical, medular - peripheral (PENS), subcutaneous and sacral
- Neuromodulation by continuous infusion into the Subarachnoid space