Comprehensive Pain Management

Historically, pain has remained a unique, often misunderstood challenge that affects every age, gender, and culture all over the world. It can have various causes and confounding factors. Hence, there is no one "silver bullet" that can cure pain.

Leaps in progress in managing pain have been made in recent years, and is expected to advance further with the growth of the field. These advances have led to a new subset of doctors becoming specialists in treating pain of all types, including chronic pain, cancer pain, neuropathic pain, severe pain, and pediatric pain.

Pain specialists usually use a wide array of modalities in treating various aspects of pain (biological, physiological, psychological, etc.). This approach forms what is called comprehensive pain management. Interventions include:

·   Pharmacologic Regimen

·   Psychological Support

·   Interventional Pain Management

·   Cancer Pain Management Program and Patient Home Care Service

·   Use of the Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) machine

·   Complementary Medicine (Medical Acupuncture)

The Pain Management Center of St. Luke’s Medical Center offers a comprehensive range of services to patients suffering from both acute and chronic disabling conditions. Advanced diagnostic technologies coupled with the latest and individualized medical, physiatric, psychological and interventional therapies can diagnose and treat patients’ conditions to achieve the most optimal level of functionality.

The St. Luke’s Pain Management Center was the first pain management center in the Philippines and one of the few centers in Southeast Asia specifically addressing the needs of patients suffering from pain that comes from different causes.

The Pain Management Center focuses on the individual needs of the patient in the evaluation and treatment of acute, chronic, non-malignant, and cancer pain.

The multi-disciplinary Pain Management team works in harmony with each other to give the best possible care for patients in pain.