What is Algology?

Algology (pain management) is a scientific field that deals with both chronic pain of all kinds and severe pain of unidentified origin.

Pain is a personal experience and require personalized treatment approaches. the most appropriate treatment options for patients with pain after detailed examination by experts is determined. As the Department of Anadolu Medical Center Algology, we implement all the methods used in the treatment of chronic pain. Especially with invasive pain management practices; nerve blocks are made using radio waves, the installation of permanent morphine pumps or spinal cord cells, waist and neck injections are administered in the hernia, injection made into the drive, permanent port-pump systems, like many advanced treatment is claimed is:.

How is pain management (Algology) performed?

At the Algology Department of Anadolu Medical Center, we provide services with our specially-trained team in coordination with other departments. Chronic pain causing various changes in a patient's life calls for cooperation of various branches of medicine. At our department, the most effective treatments are carried out through treatment protocols created jointly by various departments.

Various treatment options can be used in pain control. After a detailed examination, the most important treatment option for the patient is determined by the pain specialist.

All types of invasive pain treatment methods are applied at our hospital. These include acupuncture and trigger point injections, epidural/foraminal steroid injections and epidural lysis used in ruptured disks in the lower back and neck, radiofrequency thermocoagulation which is a method to desensitize pain-remitting nerves with the help of a special device, neurolytic blocks which is a method to desensitize nerves with special drugs in pains associated with cancer and neuralgia, and nucleoplasty, vertebroplasty and spinal battery or spinal pumps that are called advanced invasive methods.

Which kinds of pain do we treat at our Algology department?

• Headaches
• Facial pain
• Neuralgia
• Spine (neck, back, lower back-leg) pain
• Shoulder – arm pain
• Pains associated with vascular occlusion
• Pains of neuropathic origin
• Cancer pain
• Unidentified pain