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
1. Epidural steroid injection for degenerative/herniation/protrusion disc disease, spinal stenosis, and ‘failed spinal surgical syndrome’
2. 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

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

- 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

Ambulatory Care Centre - 7000 Westminster Hwy

Richmond, BC V6X 1A2

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