Pain Unit

In the Multi-Disciplinary Pain Treatment Unit of Perpetuo Socorro Hospital, we offer diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic pain symptoms of either a benign or malignant origin. Provided with a general focus thanks to the multidisciplinary evaluation of the patient and offered with the help of the best specialists in each area.

Treatment is always personalised using the latest techniques with proven efficiency.

Services

  • Minimally invasive walk-in techniques without admittance
  • Treatments conducted through ultrasound
  • Rehabilitation assistance of specific joints
  • Use of pulsed and Conventional Radiofrequency
  • Rhizolysis
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic blockades
  • Intra-articular infiltrations
  • Placement of intra-neural catheters for pain control.
  • Analgesic pain pump implants
  • Neurostimulator posterior cord implants
  • Radiofrequency sympatholysis for peripheral vascular illness
  • Epidurolysis through secondary adhesions to spinal surgery
  • Administering of intramuscular Botulinum Toxin (Botox)

Conditions Treated

  • Acute and chronic lower back pain
  • Sore hip Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction
  • Cervicalgia
  • Joint pain
  • Post-traumatic pain
  • Secondary lower back pain to spinal surgery
  • Complex regional pain syndrome
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Migraines
  • Polyarthritis
  • Analgesia for muscular-joint physiotherapy

Equipment

  • Ultrasound scanners
  • Latest generation Radioscopy
  • Neurostimulators
  • Radiofrequency Transmitter
  • Minimally painful hypodermic needles
Francisco Sierra Díaz-Peñalver
Pain Unit
Anaesthesia and Resuscitation