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About
Vic Pain Management
Pain Management Specialists in Victoria
At Vic Pain Management our philosophy is to manage pain, return function and improve quality of life of our patients.
While there are different ways of treating pain, we adopt a personalised and comprehensive approach. A plan may include physical therapy, injections, medications and advanced therapies such as spinal cord stimulation.
Our pain specialists operate at multiple locations including Ballarat, Werribee, and Melton.
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Conditions
Conditions we treat at Victoria Pain Management.
Back Pain
As the leading cause of GP visits and time away from work, back pain is the commonest presentation to pain clinics. Causation of back pain varies, but those with chronic back pain often find it debilitating and suffer from limited quality of life.
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Joints & Extremities
Achilles tendonitis Complex regional pain syndrome Hip osteoarthritis Neck osteoarthritis Lumbar radiculopathy Meralgia paraeshetica Piriformis syndrome Plantar fasciitis Sacroiliac joint pain Sports injuries Trochanteric bursitis
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Neck Pain
Your head is heavy and balanced on a narrow support made up of seven bones called vertebrae. The vertebrae are separated from each other by discs, stabilised by joints and ligaments and moved by muscles
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Chronic Headaches
Everyone will suffer from a headache at least once in their lives, but for those who suffer from chronic headaches, their functionality and quality of life is severely limited. Many headaches are often the result of neck pain, and so it is critical to determine the source of your pain.
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Pain Syndromes
Some of these syndromes include low back pain (LBP); fibromyalgia; and such neuropathic conditions as postherpetic neuralgia, diabetic neuropathy, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), and oncology-related syndromes (e.g., postmastectomy pain). Effective treatment of chronic pain requires a multimodal approach that includes pain medication, adjunct medications, and other forms of therapy (e.g., exercise and relaxation).
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Interventional, pharmacological, and non-pharmacological pain treatment pathways.
Spinal Cord Stimulation
Neurostimulation is the use of electrical impulses to block or restore nervous system function and sensation. Neurostimulation treatment reduces nerve activity through the delivery of electrical stimulation to targeted sites of the body.
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Lumbar facet injections
The facet joints are small joints that limit the amount of twisting and bending in the back. They can be affected by arthritis and strained by unaccustomed or heavy exercise. They are sometimes a cause of back pain.
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Sacro-iliac joint injections
The sacro-iliac joints are large joints that join the spine to the pelvis. They carry the weight of the body from the spine, through the pelvis to the hips
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Lumbar epidural injection
An epidural can help back pain. It is a temporary treatment, and cannot be expected to last more than two months
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Facet/Sacro-iliac joint denervation
If you have a good response to facet joint injections in the lower back or in the neck, then it may be possible to make the treatment more effective by doing facet joint denervation. If your pain has returned, then denervation can turn off
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Stellate Ganglion Block
What is the Stellate Ganglion Block? Stellate Ganglion Block is an injection of local anaesthetic in the sympathetic nerve tissue. These are the nerves that are a part of the Sympathetic Nervous System and are located in the neck, on either side of the voic...
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Meet our specialist pain medicine team.
Dr Kiran Tippur
Pain Specialist and Anaesthetist. Consultant pain specialist with a personalised, comprehensive approach to pain management.
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Dr Suran Dhanapala
Pain Specialist and Specialist Anaesthetist. Specialist in comprehensive assessment and treatment pathways for chronic pain conditions.
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Dr Priya Arvind
Pain Specialist. Focused on multidisciplinary pain care, education, and sustained functional improvement.
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