Chronic Intractable Knee Pain

Chronic intractable knee pain can be as a result of severe osteoarthritis or even following total knee joint arthroplasty (replacement). research has shown that up to 40% of patients who have a total knee replacment continue to suffer from chronic pain following the procedure. 

Recent work has identifed the nerve supply to the knee joint as being amenable to interventional pain management strategies (in the form of radiofrequency denervation), to alleviate the pain. This procedure is not a cure, but can alleviate pain by up to 50% in selected patients, it is a simple, minimally invasive procedure undertaken under x-ray and ultrasound control as an outpatient procedure under local anaesthesia. 

Knee joint nerve radiofrequency denervation is a procedure that Oxford Pain Consultants can offer via the Manor Hospital in Oxford. Please contact us via our secretary to discuss further.

Pain Management

Improved pain management can be achieved through the appropriate use of medication (pharmacotherapy), injections (interventional therapy) and psychotherapy (both one to one psychotherapy and group pain management). 

Back Pain

At Oxford Pain Consultants a holistic approach is taken to manage long term chronic back pain and we work in conjunction with local Physiotherapists and Psychologists. 

Interventional Pain Management Techniques

Oxford Pain Consultants are able to provide a wide range of interventional pain management procedures. The appropriateness of these procedures will be discussed with clients as required.

Neck Pain

Chronic neck pain is very common. Up to 20% of the population suffer with chronic neck pain. It can be very disabling resulting in significant impairment in a person's quality of life.

Neuropathic Pain

Neuropathic pain (neuralgia) is pain that arises from a dysfunction along the length of a nerve. The nerve dysfunction and thus the pain signals can arise from the nerve endings themselves or anywhere along the nerve as it passes through to the spinal cord and the brain.