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Reducing the Severity of Pain |
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Written by Pain Management Service Team
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| Services Provided |
Persistent pain leads to loss of physical, social, and emotional well-being. Sufferers are likely to make disproportionately high demands on health care resources.
The consultant members of the Pain Management department help many sufferers of persistent pain by offering:
- Full biopsychosocial assessment including red flag symptoms and signs investigated when appropriate, and recognition of blue flag psychological signs
- Education and support
- Rationalisation of medication to maximise pain relief whilst reducing side effects and interactions
- Optimisation of self-management
- Evidence based interventions to reduce the severity of pain including:
- facet joint injections and radiofrequency denervations for low back ‘nerve root’ and neck pain.
- epidurals for pain and stenotic pain;
- nerve blocks and pulsed radio-frequency treatment for neuropathic pain;
- soft tissue, muscle, and joint injections;
- sympathetic nerve blocks for complex regional pain syndromes after surgery or trauma
- Access to the multidisciplinary Pain Management Programme including: Medical Consultant, Clinical Health Psychologists, Physiotherapist and Nurse Specialist
Pain Management Programmes (PMP)
After referral, patients are invited to attend an introductory session. At a multi-disciplinary assessment the patient and clinicians will decide together whether PMP represents the best next step in the patient’s treatment pathway. After this, the patient may attend an appropriate programme.
Outcomes include increased levels of fitness and physical function, less reliance on medication and aids, improvement in mood and relationships, and fewer contacts with primary and secondary care health services.
Pain Management Service,
Nightingale House,
St Peter’s Hospital
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| Consultant |
Speciality / Specialist Interest |
Dr Rose BLOCK
GMC: 3108516 |
Chronic pain management
Pain assessment, education and information
Medication review and theatre interventions
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for pain |
SPH:
Mon and Tues am
WCH:
Thurs am (alt weeks) |
Dr Andy KING
GMC: 3580774 |
Chronic pain management
Pain assessment, education and information
Medication review and theatre interventions
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for pain |
SPH:
Mon am, Tues am, Fri am (alt weeks) |
Dr Ian HART
GMC: 4111603 |
Chronic pain relief
Symptom control pain clinic |
ASH: Wed pm (alt weeks)
SPH: Fri pm (alt weeks)
WCH: Wed pm (alt weeks) |
| Locum Consultant |
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ASH:
Mon am
Tues
Wed am (alt weeks)
Thurs pm
Fri pm |
| Sharon KITCATT |
Professional nursing lead for the Specialist Nurses in both the Acute Pain Service and the Pain Management Service; priniciple clinical role is as the Consultant Nurse for the Acute Pain Service |
| Caroline TYRRELL |
Senior specialist nurse for chronic pain and pain management programmes |
| Victoria MITCHELL |
Specialist nurse for chronic pain and pain management programmes |
| Rosie ODHUBA |
Consultant Clinical Psychologist |
| Nick LEE |
Physiotherapist |
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| Contact Details |
Pain Management Service:
01932 722599
01932 722579
01932 722645
Pain Management Programme:
01932 722432 |
| Location |
At Ashford, the pain clinic is on the first floor of the A&E / Outpatients block.
The Pain Management service is located in Nightingale House, located opposite Chertsey House near the St. Peter’s restaurant and day nursery. |
| Patient Leaflets |
See the documents attached below. |
| Specialist / Consultant Nurses |
Offers a variety of services to complement the medical consultants and other members of the interdisciplinary team. This includes the following: 8 nurse led clinics per week across site providing:
- Review appointments to advise on further care and medication plans
- Analgesic medication reviews
- Support to develop a self management approach to managing persistent pain
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
The aim is to relieve the patients’ pain and disability, but where relief of pain is not possible then our aim is to provide appropriate support and advice to help the patient manage and cope with their pain. |
| Weblinks |
The following websites related to this specialty may be helpful:
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:54 )
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Pain Management - Chronic