Dr. Lewis Holford is Director of the Northern Private Pain Centre and has specialist qualifications in both Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia. His field of interest is interventional pain medicine, includingn spinal pain and interventions for its diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Holford completed his medical degrees and internship in the UK before undertaking postgraduate anaesthesia training in Australia and New Zealand, obtaining Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in 2006.
He underwent subspecialty training in Pain Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital Pain Management and Research Centre and was awarded Fellowship of the Faculty of Pain Medicine in 2007. He has subsequently undertaken advanced training in interventional pain management techniques including radiofrequency treatment and neuromodulation in the United Kingdom and the United States.
He is a member of the International Spine Intervention Society, International Neuromodulation Society, The International Association for the Study of Pain and the Australian Pain Society.
Dr Holford offers radiofrequency procedures and spinal cord stimulation as a component of the multidisciplinary treatment of back pain, neck pain, pain after spinal surgery, complex regional pain syndrome and neuropathic pain.