Pain Treatment

Pain management

Effective pain management is essential to quality of life and treatment success. St. George Hospital uses a multimodal approach that combines conventional pain medicine with integrative therapies to address both the symptoms and underlying causes of pain.

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What it is

What is integrative pain management?

Pain management at St. George Hospital goes beyond prescribing medication. We recognize that chronic pain often involves multiple contributing factors, including inflammation, nerve damage, muscular dysfunction, toxic burden, and psychological distress. Our approach addresses these layers simultaneously using a combination of therapies tailored to each patient’s pain profile.

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How it works

How does it work?

Our pain management protocols may include medical pain therapy (appropriate pharmacological intervention), neural therapy and local injections, acupuncture, TENS and electrotherapy, manual therapy and physiotherapy, psychological pain management techniques, anti-inflammatory infusion therapy, and hyperthermia for pain-related conditions. The approach is always multimodal and individualized.

Who it is for

What conditions does it treat?

Cancer-related pain
Chronic neuropathic pain
Musculoskeletal pain
Post-surgical pain
Pain associated with Lyme disease
Fibromyalgia and chronic pain syndromes

Could this belong in your plan?

That depends on your findings, not on the therapy. Write to the International Office with a short history; it requests your records afterwards, and a physician reviews them before the video consultation and tells you whether this treatment belongs in your program.

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In the room

What the sessions feel like

Before Pain management runs through your whole program rather than as a separate appointment; the plan is written into your daily schedule.
During A brief injection procedure takes 15–30 minutes. An infusion-based treatment takes 1–2 hours in a chair. Physical and manual therapy sessions last 30–60 minutes.
Afterwards The plan is reviewed regularly and adjusted to how you respond, not to a fixed protocol.

Outpatient option

When pain processing in the brain is the target

In long-standing pain the nervous system itself can amplify signals. The Douwes Brain Center, the outpatient neuromodulation department of our hospital, assesses whether neuromodulation such as tDCS or rTMS is suitable.

Chronic pain at the Douwes Brain Center

Evidence

Evidence & safety

Multimodal pain management is recognized as best practice by major pain medicine organizations worldwide. The individual modalities used at St. George Hospital, including neural therapy, acupuncture, and anti-inflammatory infusion therapy, each have published evidence supporting their use in chronic and cancer-related pain.

Where we use it