A boon for pain patients

  Introduction to the Pain Clinic Pain is often a problem for people, and many intractable pains such as trigeminal neuralgia and post-herpetic neuralgia make people suffer from pain. In order to better relieve the pain and improve the quality of life for patients, our hospital has opened the “Pain” specialist clinic, which mainly treats various acute and chronic pain-based diseases.  Pain Clinic is also known as Pain Clinic in Western medicine, which has a history of more than 100 years in developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan. The treatment of Pain Clinic is a combination of traditional Chinese medicine and the latest achievements of modern medicine, based on various nerve block analgesic techniques, supplemented by Chinese and Western medicine, electrical stimulation, acupuncture and massage, psychotherapy and other combined Chinese and Western medicine therapies, to relieve the pain of patients both at the primary and secondary levels.  The indications of “Pain” are: 1. neuralgia, such as trigeminal neuralgia, intercostal neuralgia, sciatica, post-herpetic neuralgia.  2, chronic pain: neck, shoulder, lumbar and leg pain caused by strain and degeneration, such as cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, herniated disc, etc.  3, acute pain: surgery, trauma caused by tissue and joint damage, herpes zoster, gout.  4, myogenic pain, such as muscle sprain and strain, plow muscle syndrome, tendovaginitis.  5, cancer pain: advanced tumor pain, tumor metastasis pain.  6, special pain category: thrombotic vasculitis, angina pectoris, idiopathic chest and abdominal pain.  7.Non-painful diseases, such as all kinds of muscle spasm, allergic rhinitis, facial paralysis, etc.  Our “pain” specialty is composed of orthopedics, acupuncture, physiotherapy and anesthesia, among which Dr. Xiao Jianbin, chief physician of the Department of Anesthesiology, and Dr. Li Wanshan, deputy chief physician of the Department of Anesthesiology, are responsible for the treatment. The Pain Clinic is open every week in the afternoon of 1, 2, 4 and 5 at the clinic room 10 on the 4th floor of the East Clinic Building.  Keywords: pain, neuralgia, osteoarthritis, intractable pain