Team
• Clinical Psychology
• Nurse Consultant
• Nurse Specialists
• Pain Specialist
• Physiotherapist
• Psychiatrist
• Rheumatologists
Services offered
• Education and training
• Medical reviews
• Multidisciplinary/individual assessment
• Multidisciplinary pain conference
• Pain programs (see below)
• Treatment planning and appointments with health professionals e.g. pain medicine specialists, psychology and physiotherapy
Procedures offered
• Nerve blocks
• Pump implants
• Pump refills
• Radiofrequency neurotomy
• Spinal blocks
• Spinal stimulators
Special areas of interest chronic pain and
• Adult and elderly patients
• Education/training for health care providers and pain sufferers
• Intrathecal drug delivery systems (IDDS), spinal cord stimulators, Dorsal Root Ganglion stimulators
• Medication rationalisation and withdrawal
• Orofacial pain
• Prevention of secondary disability
• Return to work
• Self management
• Spinal cord injury/Nerve injury
Support for your primary care professionals
• Invitations to join case conference
• Pre-consultation telephone advice for GPs upon request
• Post consultation telephone advice for GPs upon request
• Reporting to referring providers
• Presentations to Medicare and Allied Health groups on request and via seminars organized at RNSH
• Support to primary care professions following discharge
Research Interests
• Basic science on pain mechanisms and development of new treatments
• Contribution of psychological and social factors to pain, its treatment, and its impact on lifestyle
• Contributors to patient outcomes from treatment
• Development and evaluation of pain assessment and management measures
• Development of psychological and social treatments for pain
• Disability prevention in injured workers
• Drug trials
• Outcome evaluation (of all treatments)
• Pain education and training in pain management skills
• Psycho-physiological studies