Mitigate Pain Clinic – Dr Jeshnu Tople – Pain Management Specialist In Nagpur
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
Failed back surgery syndrome is the medical term used to describe patients who continue to feel pain and discomfort after their neck, back or spine surgery. The pain or discomfort you feel may be the same as it was before you had your surgery, or different – perhaps an increased level of pain or discomfort, or pain or discomfort in a new area.
It’s important to note that while neck and back surgery are often viewed as the last resort to relieving your pain or discomfort, it is a process. Even in a perfect scenario, the actual operation itself is one step in the process. After surgery, your doctor should have a plan in place for rehabilitation. Often, it is through a combination of the surgery and your rehabilitation plan that relief is achieved.
Assuming that you’ve been through back surgery and completed (or are in the midst of) your rehabilitation plan and are still experiencing pain, you may be wondering, how can the surgery that was supposed to relieve you of your pain fail to do so?
There are a few different possible explanations – two of the most common are: you were misdiagnosed, and the lesion you had surgery on was not causing your pain; and the second explanation is that there is a second source of pain, in addition to the lesion on which you had surgery. There is also a third, less common reason, which involves the development of scar tissue after surgery. If you do have pain or discomfort as a result of scar tissue after surgery, you would only begin to notice the pain and discomfort 6 to 12 weeks post-operation – the amount of time it takes for scar tissue to form.
Our Treatments
- Joint Pain
- Back Pain
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- Neck Pain
- Hand Pain
- Shoulder Pain
- Foot & Ankle Pain
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- CRPS Pain
- Cancer Pain
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- Hyperhidrosis
- Herpes Zoster Pain
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Scar Tenderness
- Postherpetic Neuralgia
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Peripheral Neuralgia
- Chronic Vascular Pain
- Generalised Body Pain
- Chronic Injury Pain
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
- Chronic Post Surgical Pain
- Other Painful Conditions
- Slipped DISC / PIVD