Pain Medicine

Introduction

Our team of experienced practitioners aims to enhance our patients’ quality of life by reducing chronic and cancer pain through tailor-made personalised approach.

Our integrated approach to pain management embraces the recognition and management of biopsychosocial factors through the collaboration of our multidisciplinary team, comprising doctors, nurses and physiotherapists. For chronic pain management, we offer advanced, innovative, and evidence-based therapies customised to meet the unique needs of each patient.

Our Services

Around 10.8 to 34.9% of people in Hong Kong live with chronic pain, which can negatively affect psychological well-being and daily activities. Many experience problems with mood, sleep, concentration, work, social life and personal relationships.

Painkillers typically provide only about a 30% reduction in pain, even with the use of strong opioids. Additionally, many painkillers come with a range of side effects. Effective management of chronic pain cannot be achieved by using painkillers alone.

We adopt a comprehensive integrated approach in treating chronic pain by recognising and managing biopsychosocial factors contributing to the patients’ problems. Our treatments including interventional procedures, physical therapies, psychological support, and various types of medications.

Our team conducts assessment and management of various pain conditions, including:

Neuropathic pain
Degenerative musculoskeletal pain
Pain pathway dysfunction
Cancer pain, etc.

Customised Pain Management Solutions

In many clinical scenarios, chronic pain presents as a complex problem that requires a customised individualised approach.

Every patient undergoes a comprehensive pain assessment process, which forms the foundation of their personalised chronic pain management plan. We will discuss a combination of treatment options to work out the best treatment pathway for managing your pain.

We offer a range of effective chronic pain management solutions, including both conservative and interventional treatment. The aims of these therapies are to reduce pain and improve quality of life.

Chronic Pain Conditions and Available Interventional Treatments

Desensitisation of hypersensitive pain pathway
Conditions: Severe neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome
Minimal invasive treatments for low back pain, buttock pain and radicular pain
Conditions: Discogenic pain, lumbar facet pain, sacroiliac joint pain and gluteal tendinosis, radicular pain and spinal stenosis and lumbar plexus entrapment
Minimal invasive treatments for cervicogenic headache, neck pain and cervical radicular pain
Conditions: Discogenic pain, cervical facet pain and radicular pain
Minimal invasive treatments of cranial neuralgia/encephalalgia
Conditions: Trigeminal, glossopharyngeal neuralgia and trigeminal encephalalgia
Minimal invasive treatments for pelvic and perineal pain
Conditions: Pudendal neuralgia, PCNT neuralgia, gluteal tendinosis and chronic pelvis pain
Minimal invasive treatments of thoracic cage and spine pain
Conditions: Thoracic discogenic pain, facet pain, and radicular pain, costovertebral joints pain and costochondritis, intercostal neuralgia and rib metastasis
Minimal invasive treatments of peripheral musculoskeletal pain
Conditions: Osteoarthritis of knee, hip, shoulder, wrists and ankle, etc; tendinopathy, rotator cuff syndrome, adhesive capsulitis, tennis and golf elbow, etc.
Minimal invasive treatments of peripheral neuropathic pain
Conditions: Nerve entrapment syndromes, neuroma, postherpetic neuralgia, etc
Minimal invasive treatments of visceral pain
Conditions: Ca pancreas, liver, chronic visceral pain, etc
Neuromodulation
Conditions: Neuropathic pain, failed back surgery syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome
Intrathecal medication
Conditions: Cancer pain, severe somatic pain below thoracic levels, failure of other treatments