Dr Paul Ferris is a Pain Medicine Specialist who has undertaken advanced training in pain medicine with a special focus on interventional treatments. His special interests include neuropathic pain, interventional pain therapies and orofacial pain.

Paul was previously a consultant anaesthetist working in Western Sydney and then the Nowra/Shoalhaven area.

Pain Interventions
Interventions for common chronic pain conditions

Chronic low back pain
Facet joint arthropathy- lumbar/thoracic/cervical/SI joint radio frequency neurotomy.

Chronic shoulder pain
Pulsed/conventional radio frequency neurotomy supra scapular nerves.

Chronic knee/hip pain
Radio frequency neurotomy articular branches.

Persistent post surgical back pain/radicular pain
Caudal neuroplasty, pulsed radiofrequency nerve roots, spinal cord stimulation.

Complex regional pain syndrome
Sympathetic blocks- stellate/lumbar.

Occipital neuralgia headaches
Radio frequency neurotomy occipital nerve.

Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome
Scalene blocks.

Postinguinal hernia repair persistent pain
Pulsed radio frequency ilioinguinal nerves, spinal cord stimulation.

Chronic pelvic/abdominal pain
Coeliac plexus/hypogastric plexus blocks/radiofrequency, spinal cord stimulation.

Pain Medicine Presentations

• Back pain
• Persistent post surgical pain
• Complex regional pain syndrome
• Opioid use
• Neuropathic pain
• Spinal cord stimulators
• Epidurals for post surgical pain
• Tapentadol
• Bupernorphine