The Pain Management Centre is a multi-professional group delivering services to people with longstanding pain. Our 32 staff consists of administrators, clinical researchers, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and psychologists; four clinical teams provide individual consultations. In addition to clinical advice and systemic drug treatment, we also provide a full range of other interventions including TENS, acupuncture, intravenous drug challenges, peripheral and central nerve blocks, radio frequency lesioning and spinal implants. Other specialist areas of expertise are the management of complex neurology and facial pain and complex spinal and urogenital pain.
We also run a pain management programme called COPE (Changing the Outcomes of Pain Experiences) which is led by our psychologists with our pain management physiotherapists. It is an outpatient, cognitive behavioural-based group series of sessions. Similar pain management programmes specialise in low back pain and pain of urogenital origin.
We endeavour to provide a holistic service of high quality for our patients within a biopsychosocial model of pain. The clinicians within the Department conduct weekly multi-professional meetings with radiologists, rheumatologists and spinal experts (medical, nursing and physiotherapy) to discuss cases of interest, mutual patients, and inpatients with challenging conditions. We also have links with the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, as many of the patients seen there have similar conditions.
We care for patients with:
- Back pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Facial pain (from various aetiologies)
- Neuropathic pain (from various aetiologies)
- Pain associated with torture and pain related to complex psychosocial issues
- Pain in drug users
- Radicular leg pain and sciatica
- Urogenital pain.
We treat approximately 10,000 outpatients per year.
Current patients of tha Pain Management Centre can contact our nurses for clinical advice on 020 3448 3981.
Current patients of tha Pain Management Centre can contact our nurses for clinical advice on 020 3448 3981.