Dr Annie (Suk Yi) Chu

Dr Chu assesses the patient with chronic pain as a whole and considers both personal and social aspects when planning a pain management treatment plan of action. Each pain management treatment plan of action is unique and personalised to the patient and even considers the family, where relevant.  She utilises a multidisciplinary and multimodal approach in applying pain therapies. 

Dr Chu has clinical interests and additional expertise in interventional pain techniques, cancer pain management, regional anaesthesia blocks and ultrasound-guided techniques.  She is also an educator and trainer in the Essential Pain Management Course designed for better promotion of pain management for frontline health professionals.

Interventional techniques to treat pain; nerve blocks, joint blocks, radiofrequency, pulsed radiofrequency. Neuromodulation and spinal cord stimulation. Peripheral nerve stimulation. Ultrasound guided blocks. Myofascial blocks. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections. Pain conditions; back pain, facet joint pain, spinal pain, shoulder pain, neuropathic pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), lumbar radicular pain and sciatica, neck, facial pain,, headaches, migraines, abdominal pain, shoulder and arm pain, post surgical neuropathic pain syndromes like post laminectomy pain, ilioinguinal pain, thoracic pain. Chronic post-surgical pain. Diabetic neuropathy.