A leading chronic pain management clinic in Sydney, PainMed offers various pain management services with highly experienced pain specialists in Australia. Individualising treatment is the key to successful pain management. At PainMed, our team formulates a plan, keeping you and your circumstances in mind. We incorporate a range of treatments from simple medications to advanced interventional pain techniques, along with psychological management and physical therapies. This helps to improve all aspects of life and not just pain.
Often we have patients who have tried most, if not all therapies prior to seeing us at PainMed. The difference lies in our unique ‘Patient Centered Pain Care’ approach. Where every intervention is tailored to you and we focus on identifying your goals and working together to meet your expectations.
Our treatment options.
Medication
Medications have an important role in reducing your pain levels and thereby improving your function. Finding the right combination of medications for you may sometimes be a challenge and regular close monitoring of your medications is required until a stable combination is achieved. Often it is a balancing act between the medication’s pain relieving effect and its side-effects. We ideally would like to you to take the least amount of medications needed to provide you good quality pain relief. This is usually done in combination with other therapies to reduce overall pain.
Injections & Infusions
Interventions can help you get back on track if you have severe debilitating pain. It also assists in giving you good quality pain relief while allowing you to engage in physiotherapy and help you reduce or rationalise your pain medications. Carefully choosing the right pain interventions is important and the best outcomes are achieved while used as part of a comprehensive inter-disciplinary pain management plan.
Psychological Support
We recognise that with pain that persists beyond the usual healing period, it not only affects you physically but can be emotionally draining. This results in depression or anxious feelings towards the future. In addition to the physical and psychological stress, social issues may start to surface such as isolation, reduced recreational activity, a loss of employment and financial stress.
There are a number of psychological techniques which have been proven to be effective in helping patients with persistent pain. This may be delivered as an individual session or in a group setting allowing patients to discuss their stress and pain.
Exercise and Reconditioning
Physical therapy is a vital component of any pain management approach. We all know how important it is to exercise and maintain a reasonable level of fitness for a healthy living. Persistant pain may cause a reduction in activity levels resulting in you being deconditioned and loosing fitness.
Our physiotherapist will help you gradually regain this by an individualised exercise program. It is important to note that a graded program is necessary while allowing your body to heal and regain the fitness levels. This may be either land-based techniques or water based techniques (Hydrotherapy) depending on your pain.
Lifestyle Modifications
Nothing is complete without addressing lifestyle changes. Pain can be influenced by your habits, for example, cigarette smoking, alcohol, diet and sleep patterns. This is emphasised as part of our management to help you maintain your health and regain control over your life.
This may take the form of dietary advice, education of sleep, hygiene or assistance with quitting smoking or even referrals to specialised services for patients with substance use.
Often we have patients who have tried most, if not all therapies prior to seeing us at PainMed. The difference lies in our unique ‘Patient Centered Pain Care’ approach. Where every intervention is tailored to you and we focus on identifying your goals and working together to meet your expectations.
Our treatment options.
Medication
Medications have an important role in reducing your pain levels and thereby improving your function. Finding the right combination of medications for you may sometimes be a challenge and regular close monitoring of your medications is required until a stable combination is achieved. Often it is a balancing act between the medication’s pain relieving effect and its side-effects. We ideally would like to you to take the least amount of medications needed to provide you good quality pain relief. This is usually done in combination with other therapies to reduce overall pain.
Injections & Infusions
Interventions can help you get back on track if you have severe debilitating pain. It also assists in giving you good quality pain relief while allowing you to engage in physiotherapy and help you reduce or rationalise your pain medications. Carefully choosing the right pain interventions is important and the best outcomes are achieved while used as part of a comprehensive inter-disciplinary pain management plan.
Psychological Support
We recognise that with pain that persists beyond the usual healing period, it not only affects you physically but can be emotionally draining. This results in depression or anxious feelings towards the future. In addition to the physical and psychological stress, social issues may start to surface such as isolation, reduced recreational activity, a loss of employment and financial stress.
There are a number of psychological techniques which have been proven to be effective in helping patients with persistent pain. This may be delivered as an individual session or in a group setting allowing patients to discuss their stress and pain.
Exercise and Reconditioning
Physical therapy is a vital component of any pain management approach. We all know how important it is to exercise and maintain a reasonable level of fitness for a healthy living. Persistant pain may cause a reduction in activity levels resulting in you being deconditioned and loosing fitness.
Our physiotherapist will help you gradually regain this by an individualised exercise program. It is important to note that a graded program is necessary while allowing your body to heal and regain the fitness levels. This may be either land-based techniques or water based techniques (Hydrotherapy) depending on your pain.
Lifestyle Modifications
Nothing is complete without addressing lifestyle changes. Pain can be influenced by your habits, for example, cigarette smoking, alcohol, diet and sleep patterns. This is emphasised as part of our management to help you maintain your health and regain control over your life.
This may take the form of dietary advice, education of sleep, hygiene or assistance with quitting smoking or even referrals to specialised services for patients with substance use.