The ‘Critical Care and Pain Clinic’ opened at Dr Bheemrao Ambedkar Memorial Medical College Hospital (Mekahara), Raipur is extending services to patients suffering from chronic pain through OPD.
According to Head of Department (HOD) anesthesia, Dr K K Sahare there are instances were human beings are unable to bear the pain which creates mental and physical problems. The ‘Critical Care and Pain Clinic’ opened at Medical College hospital provides treatment for problems likeTrigenminal neuralgia (pain on face), cancer, sciatica, arthritis, spondylitis, back pain and shoulder pain, headache, sprain in muscles, swelling, and other pain are also being treated using modern techniques.
Dr Sahare added that clinic is functional in second floor of the hospital where through nerve block, pharmacotherapy and prolotherapy process the treatment is ensured to reduce the pain. It is done without any surgical intervention. The X-ray or ultrasound reports are checked before adopting the treatment procedure.
HOD further said with pain becoming unbearable, through C-arm machine, medicine is injected on the nerve to block it so to reduce the pain. It is beneficial to those unable to undergo surgery. It helps the patient in long run.
He added that based on the pain and diseases, the block procedure is adopted mainly for cancer patients of different parts of body like breast, liver, intestine and others. Such patients are kept for three-four hours under care of doctors.
Dr Sahare said there are a team of doctors working in the clinic providing the services.