Persistent Pain may sometimes be prevented or reduced through early treatment and appropriate treatment. We offer a comprehensive assessment and timely management of symptoms to prevent chronicity. Most importantly, we focus on improving the quality of life of people living with chronic pain.
Pain Interventions Offered
Our Team
Dr Niranjan Chogle
Dr N Chogle is a fully trained Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anaesthesia. He is based in the Ulster Hospital as a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine.
Dr Niranjan Chogle's private practice is based at two private clinics:
- Kingsbridge Healthcare Group, Belfast
- Ulster Independent Clinic, Belfast
He sees both insured and self-paying patients seeking assessment and treatment for chronic pain.
Dr Chogle graduated in India, where he completed his training in Anaesthesia and Cancer Pain Management. He moved to the UK in 2002 to undertake further specialist training and was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Ulster Hospital in 2008. He subsequently completed an additional year of Advanced Pain Medicine training in Aberdeen, Scotland.
He specialises in management of facial pain, trigeminal neuralgia, temporomandibular disorders (TMD), migraine, whiplash-associated disorders, cancer pain, and complex pain conditions such as fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome.
In appropriately selected patients, he offers a range of minimally invasive procedures to help manage facial, neck and back pain, potentially reducing the need for ineffective medications and avoiding irreversible surgical interventions.
He works closely with orthopaedic and maxillofacial surgeons to help prevent and manage persistent pain following surgical procedures.
He has been instrumental in developing the Joint Interventional Palliative Pain Service, working closely with the Palliative Medicine team to provide specialist interventional pain management for patients with advanced cancer pain.
Dr Chogle regularly delivers teaching and training sessions for GPs, physiotherapists, and pharmacists throughout Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on chronic pain assessment, evidence-based management, and interventional pain medicine.
Dr Monica Chogle
Dr Monica Chogle is a fully trained Pain Consultant practicing in Northern Ireland.
Dr Monica Chogle's private practice is based at:
- Kingsbridge Healthcare Group, Belfast
- Medical Associates, Belfast
She sees both insured and self-paying patients seeking assessment and treatment for chronic pain.
Dr Chogle graduated in India with an MBBS degree, followed by postgraduate training leading to an MD in Anaesthesia. She completed further higher specialist training in Cancer Pain Management.
She undertook further specialist training in the UK and was awarded a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Anaesthetics. Following her postgraduate training in the UK, she also completed advanced pain training in Northern Ireland.
She has been practising Chronic Pain Medicine at Antrim Area Hospital since 2011.
She specialises in the management of low back and neck pain and has a particular interest in widespread pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, which can be challenging to treat. Her specialist interests also include female pelvic pain and chronic post-surgical pain. She is trained in the use of Botox® injections for chronic migraine and myofascial pain.
She adopts a biopsychosocial approach to the assessment and management of chronic pain. She played a key role in developing the Pain Management Programme (PMP) within the Northern Health and Social Care Trust.
Dr Monica Chogle works closely with GPs, pharmacists, and multidisciplinary teams across the Health and Social Care (HSC) Trusts in Northern Ireland to promote evidence-based pain management and optimise patient care.
