Dr Mark Alexander-Williams Pain Management Consultant - Part 2

In this episode of ‘Interview the Expert’ Joel speaks with Dr Mark Alexander-Williams a leading Consultant in Pain Management in London. He treats all acute and chronic pain conditions, specialising in interventional pain management for spinal conditions and holistic management for pelvic pain. He is specifically interested in challenging pain problems with three quarters of his referrals being back pain and sciatica. Mark’s secretary can be reached at alexander-williams@fortiusclinic.com or via telephone on 0203 195 2442.

Chaptered topics include:

00:10 - What are your pain management procedures? Needle based solutions. 80% of interventions are spinal. Types of injection and where.

04:00 - Are injections just masking the pain? Activity and guidelines need to be adhered to. Pain’s very often the problem. The concept of altered movement dynamics.

08:15 - Can injections alleviate the pain indefinitely? The number of differing reasons injections are done (e.g. diagnostic..). What happens after the injection? Movement patterns.  

14:25 - Surgical site pain and decision to take pain meds. The development of chronic pain has a variety of risk factors. 

18:30 - Stem cells, PRP and the latest treatments. Empirical research and how hard this is to complete. Stem cell medicine is very interesting but currently there is no evidence.

23:40 - Words of wisdom - consider your wider position.