The analgesic technique of spinal cord stimulation consists of the implantation in 2 stages of a device whose mission is to stimulate the posterior cords of the spinal cord that transmit normal sensitivity from the different parts of the body (except the head) to the brain. This stimulation of spinal cords produces a pleasant paresthesia … Read more
What is neck pain? Neck pain, called cervicalgia, can present as mild discomfort or severe pain in the back of the neck that radiates down the back of the neck and head or into the shoulders. In most cases, no specific cause of the pain can be found. Cervical pain may be due to an … Read more
Complex regional pain syndrome is a pathology that is usually diagnosed late, so it is common for patients to suffer from this pain for a long period of time. It is a syndrome triggered after a painful event and presenting spontaneous damage to stimuli such as friction, slight pressure or temperature change. It is located … Read more
In order to find an effective treatment for pain, it is first necessary to determine what type of pain we are talking about. There are two types of pain: “malignant” (or cancer pain) and chronic non-malignant pain. Of these two, the most frequent is pain caused by chronic generative processes such as osteoarthritis, which cause … Read more
Radiofrequency ablation, also called rhizolysis, is a procedure used to provide longer lasting pain relief than nerve blocks. What is radiofrequency? Most patients who are going to undergo radiofrequency have already had a previous block such as facet joint or posterior median nerve injection of the facet joint, anesthetic sympathetic nerve block, or other nerve … Read more
Ozone therapy is the administration of ozone into the body for therapeutic purposes. It can be administered as a single treatment along with medications or drugs that the patient is usually taking. Depending on the area of the body where the pain is present, the treatment is carried out by one route or another. Most … Read more
Ozone is a gas that occurs naturally in the atmosphere. However, medical ozone is not pure ozone, but mixed with oxygen and in programmable concentrations and dosages according to the pathology to be treated. It has been used successfully in medicine since the 1950s, especially in Germany and Austria. Objective of ozone therapy Its fundamental … Read more
Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience with actual or potential tissue damage. Also, as a dysphoric and unpleasant sensation. The body responds to this warning signal of damage to prevent or alleviate further consequences. An unrelieved or untreated pain in its cause, can have consequences beyond the momentary suffering, it produces … Read more
Hippocrates said “Sedare Dolorem Opus Divinum est”. Sedating pain is a thing of the gods. Pain Unit specialists are not considered gods, obviously, but they do have an intimate and deep conviction of the need to treat pain and of the futility and frustration of gratuitous suffering. Why pain differs from one person to another … Read more
Scars occur as part of the body’s normal physiological response to a disruption in the integrity of any of its constituent tissues. Composed of connective tissue (fibrous and dense), scar tissue forms after injury or surgery. The degree of scarring may be determined by the size, depth and location of the wound, as well as … Read more