The New Jersey Pain Institute is the multidisciplinary pain management section of the Department of Anesthesiology. The Institute's Acute Pain Management Service cares for more than 8,500 medical, surgical, obstetrical and pediatric inpatients annually. The Acute Pain Management Service uses state-of-the-art techniques, such as patient-controlled epidural analgesia (walking epidural), continuous spinal/epidural analgesia, intravenous patient-controlled analgesia, continuous epidural analgesia and continuous neural blockade therapies.
The New Jersey Pain Institute treats more than 2,000 outpatients annually and is a tertiary referral center for the entire Mid-Atlantic region. The Institute is responsible for evaluating and treating the entire spectrum of acute and chronic pain, such as back pain, neuropathic pain, myofacial pain and headache. It provides the most up-to-date therapies available to treat cancer pain, including implanted pumps for continuous intraspinal medication infusion and neuroablative blocks under fluoroscopic or computer tomographic guidance. Our pain therapy capability includes a complete array of nerve blocks, radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RFTC) neurolysis, epiduroscopy, cryoanalgesia and implantables, such as spinal cord stimulators and intraspinal infusion pumps. Medical therapy, physical modalities, psychotherapy and physical therapy are also available on-site, rounding out one of the most comprehensive pain medicine treatment facilities in the region.
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