CENTER FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT AT STONY BROOK

About The Center

Patient Information

How to Get an Appointment

To be evaluated at the Center, patients must be referred by their primary physician or specialist. Contact us by phone at (631) 638-PAIN (7246) with any questions or concerns. Our professional staff is available from 8:30 a.m. to 5p.m. Monday through Friday. If you call and we are not in the office, please leave a message and your call will be answered promptly.

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New Patient Forms

If you are a new patient, you will need to print all of these forms and fill them out prior to your appointment. Please bring them with you when you arrive at the office.

• New Patient Instruction
• New Patient Information
• New Patient History

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Inpatient Acute Pain Services

Our inpatient service is available 7 days a week, 24-hours a day. Contact us by paging the Pain Beeper through the hospital operator.

Our Pain Nurses will visit you several times a day to be sure you are comfortable regarding your pain.
We are the only hospital in Suffolk County that offers advanced regional analgesia techniques including long-acting single shot nerve blocks as well as continuous multimodal nerve blocks.

Our services include:

• Consultations
• Patient controlled analgesia (PCA)
• Regional anesthesia (epidural and other infusions)

Pain Management is available for:

• Post-operative pain
• Trauma pain
• Burn patients
• Pediatric pain
• Acute exacerbation of chronic pain
• Chronic malignant and nonmalignant pain

If you have any questions regarding our service, please contact the Department of Anesthesiology Acute Pain Service. Ask the operator to page the Pain Beeper. For additional information, please call 631-444-4000.

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Outpatient Services

Our Center is staffed by anesthesiologists and a Nurse Practitioner, who are experts in the field of pain management. They will be happy to answer any questions you have regarding your pain management.

Our services include:

• Consultations
• Management of chronic pain (malignant and nonmalignant)
• Follow-up visits
• Procedures
• Pain medicine management

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Research Education & Training

Our program not only meets current standards for care of chronic and acute pain, but also works to improve future care through education and research. We keep abreast of new advances and, if appropriate, can refer patients to research studies on pain problems for which answers are still needed.

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