The Jiménez Díaz Foundation inaugurates its Pain Unit

The Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital has launched a Pain, Regenerative Therapies and Sports Medicine Unitin which it makes “specialized, comprehensive, cutting-edge, multidisciplinary and personalized” care available to patients, from diagnosis to treatment and monitoring of all types of pain and musculoskeletal and sports ailments, whether chronic, complex or circumstantial.

“In this unit we work with a multidisciplinary methodology that studies each case and offers a specific response adapted to each need“explained Dr. Almudena Fernández-Bravo, associate head of the Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine Service of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation and coordinator of the unit. To do this, “we have specific facilities, the latest technology and a highly specialized team with extensive experience in pain treatment that will improve the well-being of patients,” he adds.

For his part, Dr. Luis Enrique Muñoz, head of the Anesthesiology and Resuscitation Service of the Madrid hospital, highlights its characteristics as “its orientation to resultsadvising the best therapeutic regimen for each case, in a realistic and rigorous manner; the innovationsince it uses the latest technology applied to pain treatments and physiotherapy to improve the health, quality of life, well-being and/or sports performance of patients; and safety and quality framed in a care model based on scientific evidence and support for the benefit of patients.”

It is, points out Dr. Fernández-Bravo, “always put pain at the center of our activity and address the specific needs of each case to co-design with the patient a personalized treatment plan and multidisciplinary and transversal healthy habits”.

To this end, the Pain, Regenerative Therapies and Sports Medicine Unit of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation has a medical team of specialization and experience formed, in addition to doctors Fernández-Bravo and Muñoz, by doctor Ana Cuarental, doctor Daniel López; Dr. Bárbara Nasarre, Dr. Luisa Ruiz Nieto and Dr. Astrid Texeira.

According to Dr. Muñoz, given the necessary multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to pain, and to improve the prognosis and agility in the management of patients, the professionals of the unit They will collaborate closely with other specialties and areas of the hospital such as Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, with doctors Emilio Calvo and Luis Álvarez, head and associate head, respectively, of this service, and Cardiology, with doctor Miguel Orejas, associate head of this service, among others.

Likewise, its service portfolio includes state-of-the-art equipment, techniques and treatments in the approach to pain, such as pharmacological, radiofrequency, neurostimulation, epidurolysis and epiduroscopy, intradiscal techniques, shock waves and superinductive radiofrequency, among others, points out the coordinator of this new care device.

The available therapeutic arsenal also includes regenerative therapiesa type of biological therapies also known as orthobiologicals. “These are natural substances such as cells or blood components used for the treatment of orthopedic injuries and that are representing a great advance in the treatment of numerous pathologies of the musculoskeletal system,” says Dr. Fernández-Bravo.

Likewise, it has incorporated a biomechanics unit especially aimed at sports injuries to individually analyze movement using motion capture systems, force platforms and inertial sensors.

In this way, the Pain, Regenerative Therapies and Sports Medicine Unit of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation can address all types of sports injuries, pain and musculoskeletal ailments. Its scope is very broad, covering, among other pathologies, migraine and various types of neuralgia, headaches, myofascial syndromes, osteoarthritis, tendinopathies, facet or lumbar myofascial syndrome, sacroiliac pain and cancer pain in general.

20 percent of the population in Europe suffers from pain

According to data from the International Association for the Study of the Pain (IASP), In Europe, 20 percent of the population suffers from painwhich has gone from being a symptom to becoming a complex disease. That is, about 80 million people suffer from chronic pain, from moderate to severe, on our continent alone—up to 9 percent of adults, daily. limiting or disabling one in three of them to live independently and autonomously.

A scenario that also has social, professional and economic consequences —chronic pain produces more than 500 million days of sick leave in Europe, with the corresponding cost that it represents— and which coexists with the increase in sporting activity among the general population, added to that of high-level athletes and those who perform adapted sports, with the consequent need for health care that it implies.