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Specialises in

• Pain medicine

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

I was appointed as a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine at Ninewells Hospital in 2010. In my Anaesthetic practice I routinely provide general or regional anaesthesia for patients undergoing Gynaecological, Plastic, General and Orthopaedic surgery.

I have a major interest in both Acute and Chronic pain management. I treat patients with a wide variety of acute pain problems in hospital and provide regular out-patient Pain clinics for the assessment and management of chronic pain.

I have expertise in minimally invasive interventional pain management procedures for the treatment of back pain, sciatica, musculoskeletal pain, trigeminal neuralgia and peripheral nerve pain. I have a particular interest in radiofrequency denervation for the long term management of pain from hip, knee, shoulder and sacroiliac joints when surgery is not an option or if surgery has been unsuccessful.

I believe that early assessment and utilising a multi-modal approach to treatment using physical, pharmacological and minimally invasive interventional approaches offers the best chance of a quick recovery and successful treatment.

Areas of interest

Acute pain; Chronic Pain; Lower back pain; Sciatica; phantom limb pain; Hip and knee osteoarthritis; neuropathic pain; Neck and shoulder pain; complex regional pain syndrome; post-herpetic neuralgia; trigeminal neuralgia; cluster headache; migraine; myofascial pain

Procedures & Codes I routinely perform:
Back pain-- lumbar nerve root block (A5755);Facet joint injections (A5775); radio frequency denervation of lumbar facet joints (A5765);Sacro-iliac joint injection (A5790)
Hip and knee osteoarthritis- nerve block and radiofrequency ablation (A7352, A7300);
Peripheral neuropathic pain - nerve block including greater occipital nerve, sphenopalatine ganglion, ilioinguinal nerve, lateral cutaneous nerve of thigh and pudendal nerve(A7352);
Myofascial pain and spasm including piriformis syndrome- trigger point injection (S5210);
Autonomic nerve block: pre-sacral sympathectomy (A7683), stellate ganglion 25022)
Botox for neuropathic pain and chronic migraine

Medical secretaries

• Elaine McColl
• BMI Kings Park Hospital Polmaise Road Stirling FK7 9PU
• 01786 451669
• KingsPark.Reception@bmihealthcare.co.uk

• Jill Forbes
• Tayside Complete Health Ltd. 7 Commercial Street Dundee DD1 3DA
• 01382 549088
• jf@taysidecompletehealth.com