Multidisciplinary Pain Program

The Montefiore Einstein Multidisciplinary Pain Program (MMPP) is a leader in pain management, providing comprehensive, state-of-the-art, compassionate care for patients with a wide range of chronic pain conditions. Our multidisciplinary team includes world-renowned anesthesiologists, physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors, and emergency medicine physicians who are fellowship-trained and board certified in pain medicine. Our pain physicians regularly collaborate with each other and our clinical colleagues throughout Montefiore Einstein to develop personalized pain assessment and management plans tailored to the unique needs of each patient. Home to one of the most recognized academic pain practices and fellowship programs, we understand that pain is a complex and often debilitating problem that can significantly impact an individual’s physical, mental and financial well-being. At MMPP, our team specializes in patient-centered innovative treatments using the most advanced pharmacological, non-pharmacological and minimally invasive interventional pain management techniques and technologies to reduce pain, increase functionality and improve quality of life while reducing dependence on opioids. Montefiore Einstein is ranked in the top 1% of all hospitals in the nation for complex specialty care according to U.S. News & World Report.

We offer the most advanced diagnostics and treatments to reduce pain, increase functionality and improve quality of life for patients with chronic pain. We believe in addressing not just pain but also its underlying cause. Our team of physicians and nurse practitioners uses a multidisciplinary approach, which includes a thorough history and examination, an evaluation of past and present pain-control treatments and use of the latest diagnostic tests. This process helps our pain medicine physicians to identify the type and etiology of pain and determine optimal, personalized therapies.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 50 million adults in the U.S. experience chronic pain lasting at least three months. Our team of specialists treats a wide range of chronic pain conditions, including the following:

• Joint pain and arthritis
• Back and neck pain due to conditions such as herniated disk, sciatica, spinal stenosis and failed back syndrome
• Bursitis
• Coccydynia
• Neuropathic pain such as diabetic neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia from shingles, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), stroke-related and other neuropathic pain disorders
• Painful nerve injuries, including nerve entrapment syndromes
• Abdominal and pelvic pain
• Postamputation pain
• Postsurgical pain

Our team leads collaborative research, actively contributes to international and national conferences, and regularly publishes research findings in peer-reviewed journals. Our anesthesiologists are leading clinical research focused on developing new treatments for chronic pain to improve patient experiences and health outcomes.

Some of the main areas of our research include investigating non-opioid therapies for chronic nonmalignant pain, neuropathic pain, radiofrequency ablation and neuromodulation, studying the impact of social determinants of health on pain clinic attendance, and ethnographic research to enhance the ability to personalize chronic pain care.

As part of a multispecialty group of experts convened by the International Neuromodulation Society, we were also recently involved in establishing evidence- and consensus-based guidelines for intrathecal drug delivery on safety and therapy optimization when treating chronic noncancer pain.