Pain Medicine

Department of Pain Medicine, Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital

The Department of Pain Medicine is an integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine clinical department for treating various painful diseases. It has gradually developed by integrating the theories and techniques of modern anesthesiology, neurology, orthopedics and traumatology, neurosurgery, rehabilitation medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, imaging, and other clinical disciplines. It combines medical care, health care, teaching, and scientific research.

Our department has provided pain diagnosis and treatment services for more than 10 years. It has 2 outpatient consultation rooms and 2 outpatient treatment rooms, with specialty services for postherpetic neuralgia and chronic headache and facial pain. A Department of Pain Medicine ward has also been established, mainly admitting patients with severe, difficult-to-treat, and complex pain. There are currently 4 specialized pain physicians: 1 chief physician and 1 master's graduate.

The department mainly diagnoses and treats various acute and chronic painful diseases, including head and facial pain; neck, shoulder, arm, and back pain; low back and leg pain; various neuralgias; postherpetic neuralgia; joint pain; ankylosing spondylitis; rheumatoid arthritis; soft-tissue pain and numbness in various parts of the body; cancer pain that cannot be controlled with medication; pain of unknown cause; and some diseases caused by vascular spasm and autonomic nervous dysfunction, among others.

The department is equipped with advanced devices, including the Canadian Baylis radiofrequency pain treatment system, the German Ozon ozone therapy device, an extracorporeal shock-wave therapy device, a silver-needle therapy device, a cervical and lumbar intervertebral foramen endoscopy system, and a plasma system.

A variety of minimally invasive interventional and distinctive treatment techniques are provided: cervical and lumbar disc plasma low-temperature ablation; cervical and lumbar disc radiofrequency target thermal coagulation; neuromodulation; disc ozone ablation; disc collagenase chemonucleolysis; paravertebral intervention; ozone major autohemotherapy; nerve block therapy; bioelectrical therapy; shock-wave pain therapy; silver-needle soft-tissue release; spinal cord stimulation; morphine-pump implantation for analgesia; percutaneous endoscopic cervical and lumbar discectomy; and traditional Chinese medicine non-pharmacological therapies such as small-needle-knife therapy and spinal reduction. Outpatient hours:

Specialty clinic: Monday to Friday, all day

Expert clinic: Monday morning and Thursday morning