Pain Medicine

The Department of Pain Medicine at Shanghai International Medical Center specializes in diagnosing and treating a range of acute and chronic pain conditions and seeks to provide individualized, precise pain care. It collaborates actively with large grade-three class-A general hospitals and brings together experts experienced in pain diagnosis and treatment. The department has introduced an ablation and repair therapy for herniated intervertebral discs using a biological pharmaceutical product that specifically hydrolyzes collagen. The minimally invasive treatment is intended to promote dissolution, absorption by the body and repair. The hospital describes it as relatively less traumatic, reports good safety in clinical use and relatively favorable results for most patients, and states that it reduces the possibility of recurrence to some extent.