Pain & Spine Treatment

Guru Multispecialty hospital situated at Madurai, is a world class medical center in India pioneering in the field of infertility and cancer care, has now extended its arm to establish first advanced “Interventional Pain & Spine Clinic” along with a specialty unit on “Palliative Care” in Madurai.
It features affordable, best in class pain management services by establishing, anadvanced multi disciplinary pain management and palliative care center of excellence with a coordinated approach that enriches the quality of human life.

Mission
* To relieve suffering, restore wellness, and promote functional restoration with clinical excellence and advanced interventional pain management and palliative care techniques.
* Highest standard of quality care with the most technologically advanced treatments that are available today.

Treatment Modalities
* Pharmacological
* Non Pharmacological
* Interventional (Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Prognostic Interventions)
* Physical education and Rehabilitation
* Psychological Support

Treatment offered for
* Cancer related pain
* Low back pain
* Sciatica
* Nerve Entrapment Pain (Carpal Tunnel, Tarsal tunnel, Anterior Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment, MeralgiaParesthetica)
* Scar Neuralgia
* Cervical/Neck pain
* Migraine, Cluster headache & all kinds of headache
* Joint pain
* Trigeminal neuralgia, Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
* Post herpetic neuralgia
* Occipital neuralgia
* Neuropathic pain
* Phantom limb pain
* CRPS
* Failed back surgery syndrome / Failed neck surgery syndrome
* Atypical Chest Pain
* Pelvic and Perineal pain
* Coccydynia
* Spondyloarthropathy&Polyarthralgia (Ankylosing Spondylitis & Rheumatoid Arthritis)
* Fibromyalgia &Myofascial Pain syndrome
* Osteoarthritis (Knee, Shoulder, Elbow and Hip Joints)
* Ischemic Pain (Raynauds Phenomenon, Burgeers Disease)
* Labour Pain (Walking Epidurals)
* Post Operative Pain (Continuous Epidural Analgesics & Intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesics)
* Nerve Blocks for Traumatic Patients

Interventional Pain Management

Highlights:
* Minimally Invasive Pain Interventions / Nerve blocks (using Ultrasound, Fluroscopy or CT guidance)
* Percutaneous Spine Interventions – Spine Endoscopy (Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy, Vertebroplasty, Khyphoplasty and Foraminoplasty)
* Neuromodulation (Intrathecal Pump & Spinal Cord Stimulation)
* Stem Cell Therapy & Regenerative Medicine

Advantages
* Very safe and Cost Effective
* “Day Care Procedure”- Less duration of hospital stay
* All procedures are performed under local anaesthesia. Less tissue damage with no or very minimal blood loss
* Helps in localizing pain generator and provides prognostic value for surgical methods

Interventional Pain & Spine Physician

Dr V.Vissnukumar MD, PDCC(Pain Management), CCEPC(Palliative Care)                                                                                         
Dr V.Vissnukumar received his basic medical training at Tbilisi State Medical University,
Tbilisi, Georgia, and did his anaesthesia residency at King George Medical University,
Lucknow, India. He completed his Post Degree Certificate Course(PDCC) in Pain Management
& Palliative Care and Certificate Course in Essentials of Palliative Care(CCEPC) from Sanjay
Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science, Lucknow, India. He is a member of Indian
Society for Study of Pain (ISSP), and Indian Society of Pain Clinicians (ISPC).

Pain & Palliative Care Skills
 Minimally Invasive Pain Interventions
 Ultrasound, Fluoroscopy & CT Guided Pain Interventions& Nerve blocks
 Percutaneous Spine Interventions
 Spine endoscopy (Percutaneous Endoscopic Disc Discectomy, Foraminoplasty&Vertebroplasty)
 Neuromodulation
 Cancer Pain Management
 Regenerative Medicine / Stem Cell Therapy