Pain Medicine

1. Basic information: The Pain Medicine outpatient clinic opened in July 2014, and the Pain Medicine inpatient ward opened in April 2017.

2. Bed capacity: There is currently 1 pain outpatient consultation room and 2 independent outpatient pain treatment rooms; the inpatient ward has 10 beds and 1 pain treatment room. The annual outpatient volume exceeds 10,000 visits, the annual treatment volume exceeds 4,000 cases, and more than 300 minimally invasive surgeries are performed annually.

3. Team: There are currently 16 medical and nursing staff members, including 4 physicians, 1 chief physician, 1 attending physician, 2 physicians with junior-level professional titles, 1 pain rehabilitation therapist, and 1 pain specialist nurse; 2 of the physicians hold master’s degrees.

4. Equipment: The department is equipped with pain diagnosis and treatment surgical equipment and imaging equipment, including a German Kater medical ozone therapy machine, a Shenzhen Anke pain radiofrequency thermocoagulation device, a Weifa infrared therapy device, an EMS shock-wave therapy device, a KF-type internal-heating needle, a low-temperature plasma radiofrequency treatment device for herniated discs, a SonoSite portable ultrasound system, SIEMENS 1.5T and 3.0T MRI systems, and 64-slice and 640-slice spiral CT scanners.

5. Clinical specialties: (1) Head and facial pain: migraine, cervicogenic headache, tension headache, cluster headache, post-lumbar-puncture headache, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, and others. (2) Neuropathic pain: trigeminal neuralgia, intercostal neuralgia, sciatica, postherpetic neuralgia, perineal pain, sequelae of brachial plexus injury, central pain, phantom limb pain, stump pain, diabetic neuropathic pain, sympathetically mediated pain, complex regional pain syndrome, and others; (3) Spinal and osteoarticular pain: low back and leg pain, cervical spondylosis, cervical disc herniation, lumbar disc herniation, spinal facet joint dysfunction syndrome, periarthritis of the shoulder, knee arthritis, heel pain, temporomandibular joint dysfunction syndrome, degenerative osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and others; (4) Soft-tissue pain: acute and chronic lumbar sprains, lumbar muscle strain, supraspinous and interspinous ligament inflammation, lumbar and back myofascial inflammation, fibromyalgia syndrome, tenosynovitis, rotator cuff injury, tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis, and others. (5) Tumor- and cancer-related pain: pain caused by the tumor or cancer itself and tumor- or cancer-related pain. (6) Non-pain conditions: insomnia, intractable hiccups, acute facial neuritis (facial paralysis), hemifacial spasm, ganglion cysts of the tendon sheath, sympathetic cervical spondylosis, hyperhidrosis, Raynaud’s disease, sensorineural hearing loss, neurodermatitis, intractable eczema, tinnitus, blurred vision, decreased hearing, and others.

6. Research and teaching: Several medical papers have been published in journals including the Chinese Journal of Pain and Guangdong Medical Journal.