Pain Clinic
Offers pain management through assessment, care and education by a team of health professionals for adults experiencing pain.
Services provided
- Perform interventional blocks
- Epidural steroid injection for degenerative/herniation/protrusion disc disease, spinal stenosis, and ‘failed spinal surgical syndrome’
- Nerve blocks, for example:
- Intercostals nerve block for post hepatic neuralgia
- Ilioinguinal nerve block for post-operative inguinal hernia repair
- Occipital nerve block for chronic headaches
- Trigger point injections for myofascial pain and fibromyalgia (excluding MVA cases)
- Stellate ganglion block and plexus block for upper limbs complex pain syndrome
- Botox injection for chronic headaches
- Nerve neuralgia
- Perform pulsed radiofrequency to peripheral sensory nerve
- Intercostals nerve block for post-hepatic neuralgia
- Ilioinguinal nerve block for post-operative inguinal hernia repair
- Lateral femoral nerve cutaneous for meralgia paresthetica
- Saphenous nerve for saphenous
- Occipital nerve
- Identify and forward patients with facets/sacroiliac joint arthropathy to the Radiology Department for facets and sacroiliac join blocks under fluoroscopy of CT
- Provide advice and recommendations related to medication, exercise, and physiotherapy
Exclusion criteria
- Acute vertebral fractures
- This clinic does not provide pain medication
- Patients with significant social and psychological issues are more appropriately treated at a full-service pain clinic, such as the Transitional Pain Clinics (TPC) at St. Paul's Hospital & Vancouver General Hospital or the Chronic Pain Clinic at SMH
- Patients who are currently seen by other pain clinics
Resources
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RHS referral form
Have your health-care provider fill out the RHS referral form and fax it to 778-504-9750.
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This service is available at
This service is available at
Pain Clinic (Ambulatory Care) at Richmond Health Services
Ambulatory Care Centre - 7000 Westminster Hwy
Richmond, BC V6X 1A2