Dr. James Yu
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29-31 Dora Street, Waratah Private Hospital , Suite 705 Level 7
Sydney, NSW, Australia & New Zealand
2220
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Dr. James Yu's Credentials
Accepting New Patients
Yes, this doctor is accepting new patients
Biography
Dr James Yu is an Australian-trained Interventional Pain Specialist and Consultant Anaesthetist. Following completion of his specialist anaesthetic training at St George Hospital in Kogarah, Dr Yu pursues further training in Pain Medicine at Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, completing his Fellowship in Pain Medicine in 2011. Dr Yu is trained in all areas of pain medicine with clinical expertise in interventional pain procedures including radio frequency treatment, spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal pump implant. Dr Yu is the Clinical Director of Sydney Spine & Pain, working with a multidisciplinary pain management team to deliver a personalised pain treatment plan to reduce the suffering and burden of persistent pain. Dr Yu is the Principal Investigator of Australian Medical Research and is involved in multiple clinical trials utilising pharmacological and pain neuromodulatory product. Dr Yu is an examiner, training unit assessor and procedure endorsed supervisor for the faculty of Pain Medicine. He has been certified and awarded the Fellowship in Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) in 2015. Dr Yu is an executive board member of Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (NSANZ).
Languages
- English
- Cantonese
- Mandarin
- Indonesian
- Malay
Education
- National University of Singapore
- Chung-Shan Med And Dental Coll, Taiching, Taiwan (Grad. 1972)
Other Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Neuropathic Pain
- Perioperative Medicine
- Pre & Post Surgical Care
- Cervical (neck) Spine Problems, Complex Spinal Instrumentation, Lumbar Spine Surgery And More
- Chronic Pain Management
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Medicinal Marijuana
- Spine Surgery, Complex Spinal Instrumentation, Spinal Instrumentation And More
Publications & Research
- Platelete-rich plasma injections: An emerging therapy for chronic discongenic low back pain
- Anatomically placed leads provide superior pain relief when sing a novel, pulsed spinal cord stimulation pattern: results from a prospective, multi-centre study.
- Assessment of chronic pain patient outcomes using a neuromodulation system capable of multiple waveforms and programming modalities in Australia
- Results on a pilot study on the safety and early efficacy of novel polymathy methacrylate microspheres and hyaluronic acid device for the treatment of low back pain caused by degenerative and diseased intervertebral discs of the lumbar spine.
- Spinal cord stimulation at 10kHz for chronic intractable leg pain: A prospective, multicenter Australian study
The worst experience I have ever had with a pain specialist. So condescending, rude and passive aggressive. He had not communicated at all with the neurosurgeon who referred me to see him, had no idea what he was talking about but happily took $450 for an initial appointment and all he did was refer me to a weed clinic where I can’t get in for 5 months! So unprofessional annd irresponsible and money making wrought to the system. He didn’t even try to put in a pain management plan and told me “I’d have this pain forever unfortunately” reallt not what you want to hear when you’re already so fragile and heartbroken feeling hopeless with no treatments.
Submitted Dec. 16, 2022