Pain Management

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