Media release

Mangaluru, Feb 27: The Department of Anaesthesiology, Father Muller Medical College, Kankanady has announced the commencement of 'Muller Pain Clinic in the hospital premises.

The clinic will be functional from Monday, February 28 following its inauguration on the same day. This will mark the continued growth of the Department of Anaesthesiology at Father Muller Medical College Hospital which has been committedly providing dedicated and extraordinary patient care and promoting clinical education since its inception.

According to the WHO, Pain is an extremely unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. On a daily basis hospitals come across patients who are suffering from chronic pain. In the present era, with many new modalities and specialties available to better tackle this, the Department of Anaesthesiology at Father Muller Medical College Hospital felt it the need of the hour for a pain clinic in the premises which will definitely be a source of relief for the ailing patients from in and around the city.

Dr Gurumurthy T and Dr Ananth Srikrishna Somayaji will lead the services along with his team of other certified anaesthesiologists.

The pain services will be available on Mondays and Thursdays at the Anaesthesia OPD No 51.

The facilities will include pain management for conditions such as lower back ache, slipped disc, IVDP, knee pain/osteoarthritis, cervical pain/radiculopathy. fibromyalgia, cancer pain, chronic shoulder pain/ rotator cuff injury/ frozen shoulder, trigeminal neuralgia, ankle and foot pain, migraine to name a few.

Minimally invasive procedures which can be performed at the clinic include- Transforaminal selective nerve root block and facet blocks, PRP in joint arthritis, Radiofrequency ablation in Trigeminal neuralgia and Intrathecal pump and spinal cord stimulation.