Category: Case Studies

A 74 year old gentleman was seen in the Pain Clinic. On examination, he had a reduction in flexion, extension and lateral movement. He was tender more on the right than on the left...

A 23 year old lady was seen in the Pain Clinic. She had a fall down some stairs whilst wearing a rucksack and bruised the left side of her chest- rib fractures were excluded...

Traumatic Rib Fracture I saw a lady in the Pain Clinic who had pain emanating from an old fracture of the right rib at the level of T5/T6. She had significant pain on the...

Occupation induced sacroiliac joint pain Introduction A 38 year old gentleman who worked extensively as a painter and decorator presented to the clinic. As a result of his job he spent a lot of...

Tender point (trigger point) in the thigh successfully treated with local injection of cortisone then with pulsed radiofrequency A 42 year old gentleman was found to have a specific tender point on the right...

A 65 year old lady was reviewed in the Pain Clinic. She had undergone left shoulder hemiarthroplasty 2 years previously following a fall in a restaurant. This operation then needed to be revised. She...

A 76 year old lady, with post herpetic neuralgia in the T11/T12 dermatomes on the right side of the abdomen, had previously been seen in the Pain Clinic with symptoms of allodynia and hyperalgesia....

Case report of a patient with facet joint pain treated regularly with X-ray guided facet joint injections I reviewed a 47 year old gentleman who has been a patient in the Pain Clinic for...

Case report of knee pain from using a cross trainer treated with local injection therapy Introduction I reviewed a 42 year old lady in the Pain Clinic who had been using a cross trainer...

Case report of patient with dysmenorrhoea and menorrhagia treated with multimodal analgesia History I reviewed a 29 year old lady in the Pain Clinic. She had a history of dysmenorrhoea and menorrhagia. She had...