Pain Management

Department of Pain Management at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre

Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, one of Mumbai's 1st complete multidisciplinary pain clinics, was created IN 2021 and is unique in offering the entire gamut of minimally invasive pain and spine procedures (MIPSIs).

Chronic pain afflicts 20% of individuals all across the globe and still is underdiagnosed and undertreated. If we translate 1.4 billion population of India ,280 million have some or the other kind of chronic pain. Pain is the most distressing symptom and now in fact is accepted as a neurological disease which leads to a range of physical and psychological ill-effects , unwarranted suffering and impacts normal functioning.

Modern medical care implies that if a condition cannot be cured, one should at the very least try to lessen one's suffering by making symptoms bearable. This is precisely what the specialization of chronic pain treatment strives to achieve. It has the potential to significantly enhance patients' quality of life by reducing pain.

ADVANCED IMPLANTABLE THERAPIES:

Jaslok hospital is a leading Centre in India and Asia for offering a variety of Neuromodulation therapies for refractory medical disorders which fail to respond to more conservative treatments. We have a multidisciplinary team and largest experience in implanting the most sophisticated programmable therapies for long term analgesia such as Spinal Cord stimualtors,intrathecal pumps ,peripheral nerve stimulators.

1) Spinal Cord Stimulation

This is mainly indicated in patients with Post spinal surgery pain syndrome , Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS); peripheral vascular disease, diabetic neuropathy etc.

2) Peripheral Nerve Stimulation

Occipital nerve stimulator for severe refractory chronic migraine. We also have the expertise and experience to implant Sacral nerve stimulators for chronic pelvic pain and voiding dysfunction. This can also be used to treat chronic post surgical pain after inguinal hernia surgery or thoracotomy surgery.

3) Intrathecal Baclofen/Morphine pump implantation

This is a programmable pump which also has a handheld device for patients to self-titrate their analgesia. This has shown to improve the degree of patient satisfaction.

Meet our experts:

Dr Preeti Doshi, Director of the department has been the pioneer in implantable therapies in the country and has an experience of over 24 years.

Our centre has vast experience in titration and programming of implantable therapies which is the main key for successful outcomes at our institute.

Dr Meghana Patwardhan, Junior Consultant with 12 years experience