DON'T MANAGE PAIN ALONE.

SECTIONS
• Types of pain
• Conditions
• Five things we’ve learnt

Types of pain are different, and the right plan starts with a clear diagnosis.

At Pain Specialists Australia in Melbourne, our FFPMANZCA pain specialists focus on long-term recovery, not quick fixes.

We identify whether your pain is or chronic, nociceptive, neuropathic or nociplastic, including patterns. Then we make the diagnosis such as radicular pain, CRPS, trigeminal neuralgia, discogenic and facet joint pain and much more.

This will lead to a formal treatment plan, which may combine medication optimisation, physiotherapy, psychology and dietetics, with image-guided procedures or neuromodulation when indicated.

We work with you in accredited hospitals across Richmond, Heidelberg and Bayside, review progress, and keep going until we see meaningful improvement.

FACE & HEAD PAIN

KNEE PAIN

FOOT PAIN

HIP PAIN

NECK PAIN

STOMACH PAIN

PELVIC PAIN

CANCER PAIN

Chronic Shoulder Pain & Chronic Arm Pain

ARM & SHOULDER PAIN

LOWER BACK PAIN

LEG PAIN

COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME (CRPS)

MEDICAL CONDITIONS

In addition to the above types, pain is also described according to diagnosis or conditions.
We treat all types of pain conditions, including the following:

Abdominal pain after surgery
Achilles tendonitis
Arthritis (osteoarthritis)
Back pain
Cervical radiculopathy
Cluneal neuralgia
Degenerative Disc Disease
Facet joint pain
Gluteal tendonopathy
Dental pain
Disc herniation/prolapse
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
FBSS / Post-laminectomy syndrome
Knee arthritis

Headaches
Hip arthritis
Lumbar radiculopathy
Migraines
Neuropathic pain
Sacroiliac joint pain
Shingles
Peripheral neuropathy
Phantom pain
Piriformis syndrome
Shingles and post-herpetic neuralgia
Post-hernia surgery pain
Post-thoracotomy pain
Post-operative neuropathic pain
Psoas syndrome

Pudendal neuralgia
Rotator cuff syndrome
Testicle pain
Tension headaches
Tennis elbow
Sciatica
Shoulder arthritis
Spine pain
Spinal stenosis
Spondylosis
Spondylolisthesis
Tendinopathy
Trigeminal neuralgia
Vertebral compression fractures / vertebral crush fractures

5 THINGS WE'VE LEARNT (SO FAR...)

People do not have to live with pain.

By the time people see us they are frustrated and fed up. Pain has reduced their quality of life and they have often been told they have to live with pain. This is not always the case! We will strive to find a way to manage the pain.

Listen to your patients.

We need to remember that we are not just treating a pain problem; we are treating a person in pain. We need to understand the person who is suffering the pain before we can focus treatment on the pain.

There is no quick fix in managing pain.

Pain management is a marathon, not a race. It takes time and patients need to be just as committed to managing their pain as we are. Unfortunately, despite all our hard work we are unable to help every pain that we treat but this is usually the exception rather than the rule.

Build a team of experts.

Build relationships with other medical experts that can help you manage your patients when needed. This includes: neurosurgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, neurologists, rheumatologists, rehabilitation physicians, psychiatrists, GPs and other medical professionals. We use the right type of experts when needed.

The key:

Successful pain management requires 'the right treatment, for the right person, at the right time'.