by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 26, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
GENERAL A superior hypogastric plexus block is used to treat pelvic pain that is resistant to conservative drug therapy. It is also indicated when, despite the efficacy of pharmacotherapy, there are many intolerable drug side-effects (nausea, constipation, sedation...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 26, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
GENERAL For many years, chronic discogenic pain due to intradiscal degeneration was treated with conservative therapy that included rest, drugs, physiotherapy and epidural injections having a very brief in duration analgesic effect. Whenever conservative treatment...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 26, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
GENERAL Ganglion IMPAR block is used to treat perineal pain and coccygodynia (coccygeal pain). Perineal pain is a neuropathic type of pain often accompanied with a heat sensation in the perineum and urinary urgency. Once an expert urologist excludes other pain causes...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 25, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
GENERAL A special catheter is placed beside a peripheral nerve or nerve plexus with the aim of providing continuous droplet infusion or repeated single drug doses in order to treat pain. The method is mainly applied for postoperative analgesia, the complex regional...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 25, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
DESCRIPTION OF THE TECHNIQUE This technique is applied in patients suffering from intervertebral disc protrusion, up to about 6 mm, without rupture of the annulus fibrosus. The intervention is performed without surgical incision, under local anaesthesia and...
