Pain Unit

Specialists in Chronic and Post-Surgical Pain in Madrid

Medical Team led by Dr. Martín Avellanal Calzedilla

At Hospital Blua Sanitas Valdebebas, our Pain Unit in Madrid is a leading reference center specialized in the diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment of chronic pain. Our team of experts in Anesthesiology and Pain Management works in coordination with Traumatology, Neurosurgery, Rehabilitation, Rheumatology, and Internal Medicine, providing a comprehensive, personalized, and evidence-based approach.

 

Specialists in Chronic and Post-Surgical Pain

We provide protocol-based management for all painful conditions, with special expertise in:

 

  • Spinal pain: low back pain, lumbosciatica, cervical pain

 

  • Persistent post-surgical spinal pain

 

  • Fibromyalgia

 

  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)

 

  • Chronic neuropathies and phantom limb pain

 

  • Chronic pelvic pain

 

  • Craniofacial pain resistant to conventional treatments

 

Advanced Pain Treatments

At the Valdebebas Hospital Pain Unit, we apply the full range of currently available therapeutic options, from minimally invasive techniques to highly complex procedures:

 

  • Epiduroscopy for diagnosis and treatment of spinal pain

 

  • Spinal cord stimulation with next-generation systems

 

  • Nerve blocks and interventional techniques under imaging guidance

 

  • Epidural, facet joint, and peripheral infiltrations

 

Multidisciplinary Team & Clinical Expertise

Our specialists are fully dedicated to pain management and have proven experience in clinical research, trials, and scientific publications in the field of pain.

Each patient’s care plan is developed in collaboration with different medical specialists, ensuring a personalized therapeutic strategy aimed at significantly improving quality of life.

Treatments

 

 

  • Intravenous Treatments

    • Lidocaine test

    • Ketamine test

 

  • Invasive Treatments

    Image-guided procedures (ultrasound or radiology) for pain management through the administration of medications or physical treatments (radiofrequency, cryotherapy) aimed at relieving pain by targeting the anatomical structures involved. These , among others:

    • Joint blocks

    • Deep muscle blocks

    • Epidural blocks and diagnostic epidurography

    • Facet joint blocks

    • Nerve, plexus, and sympathetic system blocks

    • Pulsed and conventional radiofrequency

    • Epidurolysis

    • Rhizotomy

    • Epiduroscopy

 

  • Neuromodulation Therapies

    • Implantation of epidural and peripheral nerve electrodes

    • Intrathecal infusion pumps for intractable pain and spasticity