About MPCThe Metro Pain Clinic (MPC) group consists of specialist facilities devoted to the assessment and management of more complex acute, sub-acute and chronic pain problems. The first clinic was established in 1986. This clinic, called the Metro Spinal Clinic, is in South Caulfield, Melbourne. The second Metro Pain Clinic (MPC - CBD) was established in late 2010 in the central business district of Melbourne, at 140 Queen St. third MPC commenced operations in mid-2011 at the Melbourne Eastern HealthCare Village (MEHV) at 157 Scoresby Rd Boronia. MEHV is adjacent to and on the land occupied by the Melbourne Eastern District Hospital. This innovative medical centre has been developed by Ekera Medical. Other regional MPCs are also in the planning stages. The Box Hill clinic will open in late 2012 at another site being developed by Ekera Medical.
Each MPC brings together a team of highly experienced practitioners derived from various crafts of related medicine. Doctors could come from the fields of musculoskeletal medicine, sports medicine, pain medicine, rehabilitation medicine, occupational medicine and rheumatology. These clinics have close contacts and relationships with allied health practitioners, and via strategic alliances have access to pain management programs. In recognition of the fact that complex pain does at times require precision diagnosis and treatment, MPC practitioners utilise the latest research and development to perform interventional techniques for the diagnosis, treatment and management of painful conditions no matter where the pain resides. Problems typically encountered and managed include headache and migraine, spinal pain, sciatica, and neuropathic pain that persists or develops after any surgery including spinal, abdominal and chest surgery.
Precision interventional fluoroscopic x-ray guided techniques such as injections, nerve ablations and neuromodulation are performed at some of these clinics. Patients can be referred to one of the satellite MPCs that offer these services.
MPC aims to provide a contemporary best-practice resource for people with moderate to severe pain that is not readily managed in other settings. They are therefore necessarily referral based clinics. The clinics' practitioners have a specific interest in the management of complex pain, and as such they provide facilities and comprehensive expertise in pain management from the provision of pain management programs through to complex interventional fluoroscopic x-ray guided precision techniques.
The practitioners at MPC not only practice evidence-based medicine but also contribute substantially to the international literature and science; they arecommitted to scientific research, publication in international journals and presentation of research at international scientific meetings.
Assessment of all pain problems is available including:
- back pain
- neck pain/whiplash
- sciatica-radicular pain
- headache
- hip and groin pain
- chronic and referred pain
- neuropathic pain
- persistent abdominal pain (after suitable work up by GP and relevant specialist)
- persistent chest pain
- shingles.
Mission Statement:
We aim to provide the best available care and management for patients with complex acute of persistent pain. Our physicians and nurses are committed to professional development and collaboration with the international spine medicine community. We have worked dilligently to become leaders in the field of pain medicine and will continue to maintain the highest levels of clinical and technical competence.