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Pain management
Consultant in Pain Medicine (Anaesthesia)
The Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Pain Self-Management Service offers an NHS course specifically tailored for people with persistent pain.
What is acute pain?
She has an interest in all chronic pain conditions but particularly in abdomino-pelvic pain and pain which is producing the need for frequent unplanned
Pain modifying medication These medications can reduce pain signals from your nerves and are given in tablet form.
You can take your normal pain relief to reduce any pain.
Local anaesthesia Local anaesthesia blocks pain in a very specific part of the body.
where you feel your pain.
Severe pain
This has a good track record for relieving pain.
Take simple pain relief such as paracetamol to relieve any pain.
Pain in the most common symptom. The pain is usually located on the palm and thumb side of the wrist.
Results The results so far indicate a reduction in CXR requesting of between 35% and 37%in patients presenting with cardiac sounding chest pain following
How to reduce the pain
and sometimes resolution of pain.
In some patients, however, the joint becomes inflamed and this produces pain.
The data of chest pain patients presenting to Gloucester ED were plotted on a run chart and reviewed on a fortnightly basis.
Pain and bruising
Consultant in Pain Medicine
