Personal Profile
- 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
- Joint injections under X ray guidance
- Occipital nerve blocks
Dr Collighan graduated from Edinburgh University Medical School in 1996. He spent the following13 years undergoing training and research in anaesthesia, intensive care and chronic pain management.
Higher specialist training in pain management was undertaken in the Yorkshire School of Anaesthesia. In July 2009 he was appointed as a consultant for the East Kent University NHS Foundation Trust in anaesthesia, intensive care and chronic pain management. Dr Collighan’s current commitments are spread between the QEQM hospital, Margate and the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury.
He is currently the Trust Lead for Pain Services within East Kent and now works full-time in Pain Management delivery.
Dr Collighan has been trained in the more complex interventional procedures including spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal drug delivery devices and intradiscal therapies. He believes that all pain management strategies should be a combined medical, interventional and psychological approach to ensure optimum results and patient well-being.
He set up the local Kent Centre for Pain Medicine and Neuromodulation service, with his colleague Dr Bhadresha, which is the only NHS Spinal Cord Stimulator service within South East Coastal region.
Dr Collighan has developed a private multidisciplinary assessment and implantation service with regards Spinal Cord Stimulation, Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation, Multifidus Stimulation and Intrathecal Pump therapies.
Other treatments offered can include