An establishment or hospital department dedicated to the investigation and treatment of pain.
the GP referred the patient to the pain clinic
Example sentencesExamples
- Your doctor may refer you to a rheumatologist or hospital pain clinic for further, more specialist, assessment.
- The consultant in the pain clinic discussed the issue of exercise with me.
- If pain is prolonged then treatment will be managed by a multidisciplinary team in a pain clinic.
- She took physio for two weeks and thereafter she was referred to a Pain Clinic for the continuing symptoms in her right elbow.
- If a hospital has a pain clinic, you can find a pain specialist there.
- He did recommend that she attend yet another pain clinic for management of her condition.
- Acupuncture is available as a treatment option in most chronic pain clinics.
- In difficult cases and when increasingly large doses of opiates are required, patients should be referred to a specialist pain clinic.
- This treatment had been evaluated in a clinical trial in a multidisciplinary pain clinic on patients who came for acupuncture therapy over a period of two years.
- Pain clinics or surgical teams offer specialist pain management, and the rest can usually be overseen within primary care.