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Pain Management in Mexico

Dr. Plancarte discusses his involvement in treating pain in Mexico, including his founding of the first pain clinic for cancer in his country. In the late 1980’s, there was an influx of women with cervical cancer, but there was no effective means readily available to treat the associated pain.

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It was then that he developed the superior hypogastric plexus block. He also introduced the ganglion of impar block to address the non-somatic pain, and these two techniques became the framework of interventional treatment of pelvic pain.

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