Dr Neil Collighan

Dr Collighan is a full-time Consultant in Pain Medicine, specialising in a wide range of pain conditions. He has delivered Pain management at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust for the last 15 years and is on his second stint as Lead Consultant during that time. He believes that all pain management strategies should be a combined medical, interventional and psychological approach to ensure optimum results and patient wellbeing

Dr Collighan has recently developed a private multidisciplinary Spinal Cord Stimulation service for the County of Kent Procedures offered Cervical/Thoracic/Lumbar/Caudal epidurals under X-ray guidance Cervical/Thoracic/Lumbar/Sacral nerve root blocks Guanethedine blocks  Paravertebral blocks  Cervical,Thoracic and Lumbar facet joint injections  Sacroiliac joint injections  Radiofrequency denervation of Cervical/Thoracic/Lumbar facet joints and   sacroiliac joints Lumbar sympathectomy  Pulsed Radiofrequency of a dorsal root ganglion/ peripheral nerve Joint injections under X ray guidance Occipital nerve blocks Botox for muscular pains and migraine  Epidural adhesiolysis (Racz procedure) Neuromodulation – spinal cord stimulation, High frequency cord stimulation Dorsal root ganglion stimulation, Intrathecal pump device implantation.