Cedars-Sinai Pain Center - California


In an effort to locate regional assistance for chronic pain sufferers who follow my column here at the Suite, I will periodically be doing reviews of various organizations, companies, hospitals, products and services. This is review #1.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles California has been known and revered as the largest non-profit hospital in the Western United States for many years. It was founded in 1902, and has a solid history of almost one-hundred years of effective medical research, treatment and patient care.

Part of Cedars-Sinai is known as The Pain Center, an area which specializes in acute pain, chronic pain and cancer pain. The Pain Center offers three types of comprehensive pain services:

  • Behavioral Medicine
  • Head, Neck and Facial Pain
  • Pain Medicine.

In order to treat and manage these three areas of chronic pain, which are broken down more conclusively on the website, Cedars-Sinai has created what's known as the Pain Center Team, and you can read up on the staff members on the website. Depending on your reason for going to The Pain Center, you may have all or just one of the following medical professionals from one of the following specialties involved in your care plan:

  1. anesthesiology
  2. internal medicine
  3. dentistry
  4. head, neck and facial pain
  5. behavioral medicine
  6. clinical nursing
  7. physical therapy
  8. physical medicine
  9. pediatrics

Your plan of care may vary from another patients due to the severity, frequency or nature of your specific problem with chronic pain. Chronic pain is very individual, and Cedars-Sinai appears to cater to those individual needs.

If you choose to seek care at Cedars-Sinai Pain Center you will need a referral from your physician. All these are handled through the Intake Coordinator, Monday through Friday from 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m.

To learn more about Cedars-Sinai and what they have to offer chronic pain sufferers, you can check out their searchable database, or contact them offline at:

  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • 444 San Vincente Boulevard
  • Suite 1101
  • Los Angeles, California 90048
  • Phone: 310-423-9600
  • Fax: 310-423-9610

The one other thing the Cedars-Sinai website did for me was introduce me, via their links button, to asupport group for sufferers of chronic headache pain, ACHE.

If you or a loved one has had an experience with The Pain Center at Cedars-Sinai we would love to hear your feedback in the Discussion area, or feel free to email me for the possibility of sharing your chronic pain story here in the form of an interview.

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