This category brings together the interventional and complementary methods I use for pain, along with the functional medicine assessment. Where each method comes to the fore, how they differ and what their evidence levels are is set out together on the pain treatment page; the individual pages are below.
TREATMENTS
Pain Treatment and Functional Medicine
Pain Treatment
Occipital nerve block, acupuncture and knee injections: which method, when, and where the evidence stands.
Occipital Nerve Block
Local anaesthetic around the nerve in chronic migraine, occipital neuralgia and cluster headache.
Acupuncture Treatment
A drug-free method for chronic pain, headache, stress and sleep; practised under a Ministry of Health certificate.
Neural Therapy
Low-dose local anaesthetic targeting a segment and an interference field: theory, reported uses and evidence level.
Sanakin for Knee Osteoarthritis
Managing knee pain in the active phase with serum prepared from the patient's own blood; the limits of the evidence are stated.
Knee Hyaluronic Acid Injection
Lubrication support once inflammation has settled: what it does, what it does not do, what the guideline says.
Functional Medicine
An assessment addressing the processes that produce the complaint, alongside follow-up for any diagnosed condition.