Dr C Avenant Inc
Health Care in Roodepoort

Dr C Avenant has  a Multi-disciplinary pain clinic at the Wilgeheuwel hospital, fibromyalgia, where he treats patients with post-operative pain and, cluster headaches etc. Our main focus is to improve the quality of life for our patients.

He left his home town to go study Medicine at Stellenbosch University. He did his anesthesiology training (as a specialist) at University of Witwatersrand then furthered his studies and sub specialized in Chronic pain! He has been in private practice for the past 10 years. He keeps up to date with current procedures and the latest treatment plans and developments in pain by attending workshops and congresses all over the world. To approach the patient with the help of other specialties eg: Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Neurosurgeons and Orthopedic surgeons. This is because chronic pain became a disease and all patients deserve the best treatment. Dr Avenant has been a guest speaker at numerous pain management workshops across the world! His hobbies include going to gym and breeding sheep on his family farm for stud purposes and for the meat market in Gauteng. When nociceptors are stimulated by touch, heat, or cold, the sensation is transmitted along sensory nerves, including unmyelinated slow-conducting C fibers and thinly myelinated larger-diameter Ad fibers to second-order neurons located in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. These second-order neurons, in turn, propagate the impulse along ascending tracts to the brain. The impulse travels first to the thalamus, which provides a crude perception of pain, and then to the cerebral cortex, which identifies the precise location of the pain. Pain perception in nociceptive pain is also modulated by descending (inhibitory) and segmental controls. The persistence of pain for more than 3 to 6 months is one criterion for classifying pain as chronic versus acute. Thus, the pain associated with the blisters that occur in patients with an acute herpes zoster infection is an example of acute pain. However, in patients who develop postherpetic neuralgia, pain persists after the blistering has resolved. However, chronic pain can involve components of persistent nociceptive pain in response to ongoing nociceptive stimuli. An example of this is a chronic inflammatory disease such as osteoarthritis (OA). Chronic neuropathic pain is the result of plastic nervous system changes involving either the peripheral or central nervous system.