PROCARE Medical Center is First center in Kochi to start Multidisciplinary &

Multimodal Pain & Varicose Veins clinic to provide Person Centered Care for Health-
Related Sufferings.

Chronic pain is a disease, a syndrome and not just a symptom. The concept of a pain clinic is based
on the conviction to effectively manage difficult pain conditions through well- coordinated efforts
of a specialist possessing knowledge and skills to diagnose and treat pain.
What can Chronic Pain lead to?
Chronic pain can lead to depression, anxiety, marital & interpersonal problems, decreased produc-
tivity, unemployment, compromised social roles, isolation, financial burden, dependence, prolonged
analgesics usage, decreased self-esteem with behavioral changes adversely affecting the quality of
life & Activities of daily living.

Advantages of Interventional Pain Procedures

Interventional pain procedures scores over both medicine and surgery, as they do not have side ef-
fects like medicines. The interventional pain procedures produce:

 Immediate pain relief

 Performed with ease by pain physicians without anaesthesia
 Is an outpatient or day care procedure
 Adequate duration of pain relief can be obtained
 Is suitable for surgically unfit & debilitated patients
 The procedure can be repeated safely if required.

Specialty Clinics in PROCARE:

 Head Ache Clinic

 Trigeminal neuralgia Clinic
 Knee Pain Clinic
 Shoulder Pain Clinic
 Neck Pain Clinic
 Low Back Pain Clinic
 Post-Operative Pain Clinic
 Acute Injuries
 Varicose veins Clinic

Treatments Offered in PROCARE:

Cooled Radio Frequency Ablation

 Pain relief for up to 24 months

 Improved mobility
 Quick recovery time
 No or less opioid recovery medication
 No hospital stay
 No incision

Platelets Rich Plasma (PRP) injection

  PRP injections use each individual patient's own healing system to improve musculoskeletal
problems.
 PRP injections are prepared by taking anywhere from one to a few tubes of your own blood
and running it through a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets
 This releases growth factors that stimulate and increase the number of reparative cells your
body produces
 Reduce the need for anti-inflammatories
 Side effects of PRP injections are very limited

Botox Injection

 Botox injections block certain chemical signals from nerves, mostly signals that cause
muscles to contract.
 The most common use of these injections is to temporarily relax the facial muscles that
cause wrinkles in the forehead and around the eyes.
 Botox injections are also used to treat conditions that affect how the body functions.

Peripheral Neuro Modulation

 ONS for migraines

 Supraorbital nerve stimulation for chronic daily headaches
 Neuropathic face pain
 Inguinal neuralgia
 Post-herpatic neuralgia (PHN)
 Axial back and neck pain
 Chronic joint pain
 Abdominal pain
 Meralgia paresthetica
 Other pain conditions.

VenaSeal™ Vein Treatment

 Simple outpatient procedure
 Lasting results, with a 94.6% closure rate at five years1
 Compression stockings may not be needed after the procedure
 Faster recovery time than thermal ablation
 Less pain and bruising than thermal ablation
 No tumescent anesthesia.

Nerve Blocks

Cold compression therapy

Palliative Care:
Palliative Medicine is a medical specialty, which involves the treatment of pain, breathing difficulty
and other distressing physical symptoms caused by chronic and life-limiting diseases and also
addressing the psychological issues of both patient and family, with the sole aim of improving
quality of life. It is most beneficial when started early in the disease trajectory.

Palliative Care in PROCARE:

 TOTAL CARE for Patients with Health-Related Sufferings. Psychology support/psycho-

oncology support
 Life Style Medicine and Mind Body Medicine
 Extended Home care services Supervised Care by Primary physician continued at home

Homecare includes but not limited to pic-line for long term venous access for chemotherapy and
Antibiotic use, Central Venous Access and Indwelling catheter drainage for ascites & pleural
effusion etc.,

Contact us:
PROCARE MEDICAL CENTER
1st Floor, BCG Estate, NH Bypass, Next to Nexa Showroom,
Palarivattom,
Cochin – 682025
9656684000, 04843559898