The Pain Management Center at Stanford University Medical Center offers a comprehensive range of services for patients dealing with acute or chronic pain problems. Our focus is to treat the entire patient, addressing each problem that contributes to the patient’s pain and inability to live their life to the fullest.
Pain is an extremely complex, poorly understood medical problem that can have profound effects on your physical and mental wellbeing and on your ability to function at work, at home, and in your day-to-day social interactions. In essence, chronic pain invades your life and affects everything you do and all of your relationships. To offer the most advanced, evidence-based effective treatment options currently available, the Pain Management Center at Stanford combines the expertise of an interdisciplinary team of specialists trained in the treatment of chronic pain. The team includes anesthesiologists, neurologists, surgeons, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists, and nurse practitioners, all working together in a supportive, compassionate environment to address your specific pain and to design a treatment plan tailored specifically to your needs.
Our goal is to help you decrease your level of pain and suffering, to return you to your maximum level of functioning and independence, and to help you restore your quality of life.
Each year, the Stanford University Pain Management Center provides care for more than 15,000 patients with acute, chronic, and cancer pain problems. Although the majority of patients can be treated on an outpatient basis, our interdisciplinary Pain Management Center offers inpatient treatment if necessary. It is the only center on the West Coast to offer this option to patients who require hospitalization during treatment for chronic pain.
Because we have such extensive experience treating people suffering from chronic pain, we believe we are well-equipped to handle your pain, no matter the source. On the following pages you will find information on some of the services we offer.
Explore Stanford Division of Pain Medicine
Stanford Center for Back Pain
Learn more about the Stanford Center for Back Pain, nationally-funded center studying evidence-based, non-drug treatments for chronic low back pain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, and Acupuncture.
Fellowship Applicants
We are now accepting applications for the Pain Psychology Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year.
All positions for the 2017-2018 Pain Medicine Fellowship have been matched.
Collaborative Health Outcomes Information Registry (CHOIR)
Learn more about CHOIR, an open source, open standard, free data-collection software created in partnership with the National Institutes of Health.
Patient Resources
Research
AAPM Fellowship Award
AAPM congratulates Stanford Pain Medicine Fellowship Program as a 2017 recipient of the AAPM Pain Medicine Fellowship Excellence Award.
The American Academy of Pain Medicine’s Annual Pain Medicine Fellowship Excellence Award recognizes Pain Medicine Fellowship Programs within the United States that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and provide an exceptional learning experience to their fellows, preparing them to deliver the highest standard of care to patients with pain. Additionally, the awards are intended to honor programs whose efforts are in line with AAPM’s mission "to optimize the health of patients in pain and eliminate the major public health problem of pain by advancing the practice and the specialty of pain medicine.