Chronic pain management is the specialist care of pain that has lasted more than 3 months or beyond normal healing. Pain clinics are usually led by anaesthetists or neurologists working with physiotherapists and psychologists.
The realistic goal is less pain and better function, not always a pain-free life. Injections and procedures help selected problems, but the strongest long-term evidence is for combined programmes of exercise, education and psychological skills.
Conditions this service looks after
- Persistent low back and neck pain
- Sciatica and nerve root pain
- Neuropathic pain from diabetes, shingles or nerve injury
- Trigeminal neuralgia and facial pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Pain after surgery, including failed back surgery
- Cancer-related pain
Tests you may be offered
- Pain history and examination: Identifies the pain mechanism, which decides what is likely to help.
- MRI or CT review: Checks whether imaging findings truly match your symptoms.
- Diagnostic nerve blocks: A small dose of local anaesthetic to a joint or nerve tests whether it is the pain source.
- Nerve conduction studies: When nerve damage is suspected.
Treatments available
- Medication review: Rationalising painkillers, using neuropathic agents and reducing opioids that are not helping.
- Epidural and nerve root injections: Short-term relief for sciatica, typically lasting weeks to a few months.
- Radiofrequency ablation: Heat treatment of the small nerves to facet or sacroiliac joints after successful test blocks.
- Spinal cord stimulation: An implanted device for selected neuropathic pain after a trial period.
- Pain management programme: Physiotherapy and psychology delivered together.
- Botulinum toxin: For chronic migraine and some focal pain conditions.
When to ask for a specialist opinion
- Pain that has outlasted 3 months and limits work or sleep
- Rising painkiller doses with falling benefit
- Pain after surgery that has not settled
- Burning, electric or shooting pain suggesting nerve damage
Travelling to Türkiye for this care
A visit can deliver a full assessment, imaging review and a one-off procedure such as radiofrequency ablation, with 3 to 5 days in the city. Repeated injections, stimulator programming and rehabilitation need continuity, so be clear who will follow you at home. Opioid prescriptions cannot normally be carried across borders without paperwork.
Send your reports, scans and a short history and a Clinic-Y coordinator replies within 24 hours with suitable teams and written, all-inclusive proposals side by side. Reviewing your case is free.
الأسئلة المتكررة
Will an injection fix my back pain?
It may ease leg pain for a time, giving a window for rehabilitation. It rarely resolves long-standing back pain alone.
Is pain management just being told to live with it?
No. It combines medical treatment with skills that reduce how much pain disrupts your life.
Are opioids a good long-term option?
For most chronic non-cancer pain, benefits fade and harms accumulate, so specialists usually aim to reduce them.