Overview of Our Interventional Pain Mana​gement Cen​​ter

Chronic pain is a complex issue, and we understand that it can be a burden on patients and their families. At the Interventional Pain Management Center, our team of experts offer the latest cutting edge, minimally invasive interventional methods to treat patients with acute, chronic pain, and cancer-related pain. 

Our goal is to reduce pain, and improve functional levels and quality of life, while eliminating the need for the addictive nature of pain medications.

Our board-certified multidisciplinary team of interventional pain physicians, psychologists, and physical therapists focus on individually tailored treatment through the latest minimally invasive, evidence-based techniques.

Multidisciplinary Treatment for Pain Managem​​e​nt​

We believe in a multidisciplinary care model which includes non-addictive medications, physical therapy, psychology and interventional pain procedures.

Interventional Procedures for Pain Management​

• ​Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP):​ A patient’s own platelets are injected to improve the function of tissues. The treatment is not widely available in the UAE, but can offer relief for patients following sports injuries, or for those affected by osteoarthritis of tendinitis. 
  
• Cryoablation : A novel treatment that uses extremely cold gas to freeze peripheral nerves to successfully treat various pain conditions.
  
• Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS): A minimally-invasive procedure that targets our peripheral nerves. A tiny wire delivers electrical stimulation at the exact source of the pain, which changes the way the brain perceives the pain. PNS is a safe and reversible procedure that can treat pain associated with chronic neuropathic pain of the upper and lower extremities, shoulder and knee pain, groin pain or nerve damage after surgery, chronic back pain and more. Read More​
• Differential Target Multiplexed (DTM) Spinal Cord Simulation (SCS): Offers patients the very latest interventional technique, with more than 80% reporting a notable reduction in chronic pain. The implanted DTM device targets neurons, as well as two types of cells involved the chronic pain pathway, to give exceptional pain relief results. DTM is especially effective in treating patients who are experiencing pain after surgery.
• Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS): A small device is implanted near the source of the chronic pain, and delivers electrical impulses which interfere with pain signals before they reach the brain.
• Intrathecal Pump (ITP)​: A device is implanted that delivers pain medication to the spinal fluid. It helps patients suffering from chronic pain related to cancer or patients with chronic pain where other treatments weren’t successful.
• Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation (DRG):  A novel devi​ce designed for patients suffering from focal neuropathic pain related to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Similar to traditional Spinal Cord Stimulation, DRG delivers electrical signals to the dorsal root ganglion, a bundle of nerves just outside the spinal cord. 
• Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty: These procedures can be effective in treating people with vertebral compression fractures due to trauma, osteoporosis, or cancer. Kyphoplasty involves cement insertion inside the vertebral body together with creation of a cavity using a balloon, which allows the cement to be injected before being removed.
• Epidural Steroid Injections (ESIs): Often used to treat nerve pain, which radiates from the spine down and can cause sharp pains to shoot from the lower back into the legs, or from the neck into the shoulders and arms.
• Medial Branch Blocks (MBB): Used for the diagnosis and treatment of pain related to arthritis of the small joints of the spine,including the neck, mid and low back pain. If the patient experiences good pain relief from the procedure, they can be a candidate for radiofrequency ablation.
• Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA): A device is used to deliver an electrical current and heat to the small nerves of the spine and joints. It can provide long lasting pain relief to patients suffering from chronic neck and back pain as well as patients suffering from knee, hip and shoulder pain due to arthritis.
• Cooled Radiofrequency ablation (COLIEF): A device that can help patients suffering from knee, hip and shoulder pain. This minimally invasive treatment targets nerves that transmit pain signals, and it’s the first and only radiofrequency treatment FDA-cleared for the relief of osteoarthritis knee pain.
• Transdiscal Biacuplasty: A novel procedure, used to treat back pain due to intrinsic intervertebral disc problems, or “lumbar discogenic pain”, which applies heat to the outer part of the disc between the lumbar spine vertebrae and ablate the neurons that generate pain sensations.

Other pain management procedures we offer include: