Liv  Hospital Pain Clinic; provides international standard service with advanced diagnostic and therapeutic applications such as pain batteries used in the treatment of spine and migraine. In Liv  Hospital Pain Clinic that targets to control the cronic pains such as head, neck, waist, back, shoulder and knee pains and maintain the patient’s life ideally, the migraine battery application has successfully performed to a patient first time in Turkey.

Life Quality is Increasing with Pain Management

Liv Hospital Pain Clinic aims to control the present pains and maintain the patient’s life ideally. In the treatment that is applied by the clinic, the patients are able to resume normal life, without making concessions quality of life.

• Waist-leg pain due to a herniated disc and neck and arm pain due to cervical disc
• Neck and back pain due to fibromyalgia
• Migraine and tension-type headaches
• The pain due to shingles
• Cancer pain
• Pain due to spinal cord injury,
• Pain due to nerve root compressions that are connected with adhesions (fibrosis) that have occured after surgery in waist or neck region.
• The phantom pain that results from arm and leg cut (amputation).
• Peripheral neuropathy pain that results from the reasons such as diabetes,
• Pain due to peripheral vascular disease caused by circulatory failure,

Multidisciplinary Approach in Chronic Pain

In Liv Hospital Pain Clinic that targets to improve the life quality of patients that is brokendown due to chronic pain, the patients who have pain are analyzed in detail and with other relevant departments their diagnosis and treatments are carried out by a multidisciplinary approach. Patients are informed about the cause of the experienced pain and the treatment is planned with the patient’s participation. The treatment plan in Pain Clinic; is made according to the  patient’s needs, conditions and preferences. Treatment of the patient varies depending on the cause of the pain.

Fibromyalgia

It kills the pain by changing the functioning of the nerve, causing pain in the trigger point with radiofrequency treatment that is applied in pulse mode to the painful trigger points in the treatment of patients who have

widespread musculoskeletal pain longer than 3 months in particular evident in back, neck, shoulders and hips, some sensitive painful points on body, fatigue, morning stiffness, fibromyalgia.

BACKACHE AND TREATMENT:

Patients with back and leg pain due to a herniated disc

may not get rid of pain despite the physical therapy. The radiofrequency current is applied in pulse mode for these patients on nerves to the legs

that are affected due to hernia and are considered as the cause of pain.

Radiofrequency current destroys the pain by changing the functioning of the nerves. The impact duration of this treatment treatment modality ranges from 6 months to 2 years.   Another cause of back pain is arthritis of the facet joints in the back. The pain is perceived mostly in lumbar region. The pain especially starts when you get up in the morning, decreases during the day, increases when stand long time.  The pain is terminated with pulsed radiofrequency current that is applied on on nerve that feeds facet joints

KNEE PAIN

The calcification and loss of cartilage in the knee joint causes pain in the front part of knee especially whie going up and down the stairs. Therefore the pulsed radiofrequency current can be applied among knee-joint of patients who are recommended knee replacement surgery but did not accept or the surgical operations can not be applied on them due to concomitant diseases. After this application the patients can make their daily activities painless from 6 months to 2 years.

SHOULDER PAIN

The injuries and tears in the shoulder muscles cause pain in the shoulders that increases especially with the arm movement and they are utilized under the name of shoulder impingement syndrome. With the pulsed radiofrequency treatment that is applied on the nerve that feeds the shoulders in patients who have shoulder pain both the shoulder pain decreases and the patient can painless spend the physical therapy sessions.