{"id":490,"date":"2026-10-05T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medluxlife.de\/health\/hospital-specialist-treatments\/algology-pain-medicine\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T18:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:20:30","slug":"algology-pain-medicine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medluxlife.de\/tr\/health\/hospital-specialist-treatments\/algology-pain-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Algology (Pain Medicine)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Algology, or pain medicine, focuses on identifying the source of chronic pain and building a treatment plan around the individual, including pain whose cause is difficult to pin down. At our partner hospital, a pain specialist examines each patient in detail before recommending options, which may combine medical, interventional and lifestyle measures. MedLuxLife arranges the consultation, shares your records in advance and coordinates any follow-up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Treatments and services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Chronic pain treatment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assessment and personalised management of long-standing pain, with the aim of finding its underlying cause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Interventional pain treatment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Image-guided and needle-based procedures that target the structures thought to be generating pain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cancer pain management<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pain control tailored to people living with cancer, coordinated with their wider treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Acupuncture (dry needling)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A needle-based therapy that may be used alongside other approaches to help relieve muscular and chronic pain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ozone therapy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Medical ozone treatment, including autohaemotherapy, offered as part of selected pain treatment plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Epiduroscopy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A minimally invasive endoscopic examination of the epidural space that can be used in the assessment and treatment of certain back and leg pain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Epidural steroid injection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Injection of medication into the epidural space, which may help reduce inflammation-related spinal and radiating pain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Regional and sympathetic nerve blocks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Targeted injections that interrupt pain signals along specific nerves or the sympathetic nervous system, which may provide longer-term relief in suitable patients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Radiofrequency thermocoagulation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Controlled heat delivered by radio waves to selected nerves to reduce the transmission of pain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pain conditions treated<\/h2>\n\n\n\n