This month we describe three different case scenarios of women who have a history of chronic pain and present to the pain clinic during pregnancy. We recommend that you look at the Recommended Reading for September 2023 which will help you answer some of the questions posed and help you formulate a plan of management in each case. We encourage you to discuss these cases with your colleagues and share thoughts and plans.
This month’s case report presents a patient who has been referred to an outpatient clinic with longstanding lower back pain. She had already been to a pain clinic in a different area but her circumstances have now changed and she has increased motivation to address her pain. The case poses questions which the recommended reading aims to help answer.
This month’s case report presents a patient who has been referred to an outpatient pain clinic with persistent spinal pain. It poses questions, and although some answers have been given, the reader is signposted towards some recommended reading material to help answer them.
This month’s case report discusses procedural pain management in children. Presented by Dr Eveline Matthews, Paediatric Pain Fellow, Great Ormond Street Hospital
This month’s case report presents a patient who has been referred to the pain clinic with persistent pain following mastectomy for the treatment of breast cancer...
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