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Dr Berwertz is a highly regarded Pain Medicine specialist who is passionate about her patients and focused on delivering the best-tailored care. Her individual approach includes collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to empower patients to change the life of one suffering to one coping successfully with chronic conditions. Dr Berwertz advocates a holistic and well-balanced approach to pain management. Martyna fully understands the impact of chronic pain on an individual's life and is proud to be able to actively support patients in their journey. She seeks to understand patients and their pain as not only an isolated physical symptom but as an ongoing process that affects both emotional and psychological aspects. Dr Berwertz knows it is important to listen to patients to understand their pain experience and expectations. She investigates, diagnoses, and treats pain based on her expertise and available clinical evidence.

 

Dr Berwertz completed her postgraduate specialist training in anaesthesia in the United Kingdom. During her Pain Medicine Training in the major trauma centre at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital, Martyna successfully obtained a Fellowship in Pain Medicine (Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine Royal College of Anaesthetists, London UK) and gained dual accreditations. She subsequently attained the European Diploma in Pain Medicine (EDPM), further enhancing competent, ethical, and professional care. Additionally, she completed the Neuromodulation Academy.

 

Dr Berwertz worked for three years as a consultant at Sheffield Teaching Hospital before emigrating to Australia. She lived and worked in Melbourne for two years before relocating with her family to South Australia.

 

Dr Berwertz's specialist clinical interest includes a wide range of pain conditions, including neuropathic/ nerve pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), painful diabetic neuropathy, neck pain, shoulder pain, back and buttock pain (spinal pain), hip and knee pain, foot and ankle pain, chest and abdominal pain, chronic post-surgical and posttraumatic pain, joint pain, muscle pain, head and oro-facial pain.

 

Dr Berwertz offers joint injections, spinal interventions, nerve blocks, epidural, sympathetic blocks, nerve roots blocks, median branch blocks, radiofrequency (RF) and pulsed radiofrequency treatments (PRF), platelet-rich plasma injections (PRP) and more complex procedures such as neuromodulation (spinal cord stimulator, peripheral nerve stimulator).