Brisbane Private Hospital to launch Acute Spine Pain Service

InFocus Issue 21, January 2021

In early 2021, BackSpace Clinic will be launching an acute spine pain service, the first of its kind in a private hospital in Queensland. The service will provide frontline definitive treatment for patients suffering acute back and neck pain. Patients suffering from acute spine pain have immediate access to expert spinal clinicians, imaging and hospital admission through the BackSpace Clinic, negating the need for long wait times in an emergency department or accessing a GP urgently. 

The clinic has redefined how back and neck pain is assessed, managed and treated by combining all of the medical and allied health services a patient may need to fix their back problem in one state-of-the-art location, with a unique collaboration of physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, massage therapists, and spine and pain specialists. 

The addition of a registered nurse from Healthscope to the clinic to address emergency back and neck pain has further re-imagined the holistic patient-centric care model, as well as how emergency back care is offered in the private healthcare system.

Brisbane Private Hospital general manager Claire Gauci said, “BackSpace has redesigned a patient’s back-pain journey, offering them a total treatment solution in one hub, rather than having to travel from discipline to discipline, new practitioner to new practitioner, to undergo care”.

In addition to the new in-hours acute spine pain service, the BackSpace Clinic accepts referrals from doctors, allied health professionals and directly from patients for the treatment of back and neck pain; spine injuries; degenerative lumbar and cervical pathologies; disc herniation and sciatica; spinal stenosis; spondylolisthesis; scoliosis; perioperative rehabilitation; plus reconditioning and posture retraining.