Special Treatment Fields
The Interdisciplinary Pain Center uses state of the art pain therapy methods such as medication regimens especially tailored to meet the individual patient’s needs, including opioid therapy. Interventional procedures for the temporary or long-lasting blocking of pain in joints or nerves are mainly used for the spinal column region. Neuromodulatory techniques use drugs specifically applied to the cerebrospinal fluid or electrical impulses to impact pain triggering and pain aggravating structures.
In detail, we specialize in the treatment of the following diseases and pain syndromes:
Pain in the whole spinal column and osteoarthrosis / osteoarthritis
- Caused by protruding or slipped intervertebral disks
- Degenerative changes, also osteoporosis
- Residual pain after spinal and intervertebral disk operations
- Pain from rheumatic – (non) inflammatory diseases
Musculoskeletal pain
- Fibromyalgia syndrome and
- chronic widespread pain
Headache and facial pain
- Migraines
- Tension headache
- Headache induced by overmedication
- Cluster headache
- Trigeminal neuralgia / chronic idiopathic facial pain
- Residual pain after surgery in the oral, dental and jaw area, after brain and skull operations (also shunt operations)
Pain caused by neuropathy, e.g.
- Herpes zoster neuralgia
- Stump and phantom pain
- Diabetes and other metabolic disorders
- Infections
- Post chemotherapy pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome type I and II, sympathetically maintained pain syndromes (formerly Morbus Sudeck and Causalgia)
Central pain, e.g.
- Post stroke
- Post spinal cord injuries
Pain with Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)
Cancer pain
Visceral pain syndromes e.g. urogenital, inguinal, pelvic (floor) pain
Pain associated with spastic syndromes
Pain associated with depression and anxiety
Interdisciplinary Pain Center
Clinic for Tumor biology
Breisacher Str. 117
D-79106 Freiburg
Medical Director
Dr. med. Kristin Kieselbach
Scientific Director
Prof. Dr. Norbert Suedkamp