Originally Based in Elgin Street Carlton, we have now moved to new purpose-built rooms in St Georges Road Northcote. we are a holistic pain management practice offering a range of pain management options including ketamine, medicinal cannabis, medical acupuncture and other interventional pain techniques including radiofrequency neurotomies, implantation of peripheral and spinal cord stimulators to name a few. We specialise in chronic pelvic pain, complex regional pain, radicular back pain, fibromyalgia and chronic post-surgical pain.
Medical
acupuncture
Acupuncture is a safe and effective treatment that can help to relieve the symptoms of a range of pain-related conditions.
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Interventional pain
management
This field of medicine involves interventional pain treatments, like nerve blocks, neuromodulation and implantable drug delivery systems.
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Pain management
programs
These are rehabilitation-based multidisciplinary programs that help treat chronic pain. The programs often involve a range of different clinicians.
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Our practitioners
Elgin Pain Management is led by Dr. Frank Buchanan. Frank is a graduate of Monash University and trained in anaesthesia at the Alfred and Geelong Hospital training programmes.
conditions we treat
Here at Elgin Pain Managment, we offer medically validated treatment options that can help relieve the symptoms of a range of pain-related conditions. Find out more about these conditions by clicking on the links below.
✓ Spinal canal stenosis
✓ Discogenic pain
✓ Facet joint pain
✓ Failed back surgery syndrome
✓ Low back and leg pain
✓ Neuropathic pain
✓ Pelvic instability
✓ Fibromyalgia
✓ Complex regional pain
✓ Pregnancy and low back pain
✓ Psoas syndrome
✓ Quadratus lumborum syndrome
✓ Sacroiliac joint pain
✓ Chronic Neck and Head pain
✓ Spondylosis