Pain Clinic

You may experience various levels of pain depending on the cause of your pain (i.e. surgery, accident, cancer). The amount of pain relief you experience depends upon your knowledge about how to use pain control methods effectively.

The Department has a distinguished history of significant and successful interventions to control pain issues.

Pills and Injections: These are the most common methods of pain control.
Patient-Control Analgesia (PCA): This pain medication is administered into your intravenous tubing (IV) when you press a button, There are controls built into this system to prevent overdose.
Continuous Epidural Pain Management: Pain medication is delivered by a pump, directly into your back through a thin catheter. This tube can be used to provide anesthesia for surgery and for pain relief afterward.
Others: Rectal suppositories, transdermal, patches, intrathecal injections.

The amount of pain you experience and the amount of pain medication needed to control pain is different for each person. You have the following responsibilities in controlling pain:

• Communicate unrelieved pain to your physician or nurse so that pain control methods can be adjusted to meet your individual needs.
• Take pain medication as prescribed. Also, take medication before pain is severe. It should be taken before doing activities that can cause an increase in pain, such as coughing, deep breathing, turning, sitting up, or walking.

• Interventional Pain Clinic
  • A consult (referral) is required.
  • Location:
    • Building: 9 Floor: 3 Room: 3606
  • o From the patient garage, enter on first floor of building 9 Arrowhead (right across from patient parking lot). Take the hall all the way to the other end by The Wedge Coffee Shop; take the elevators in front of the coffee shop to the 3rd floor. Come out of the elevator take a left and a immediate left into the hall, in the middle of the hall we are on the right side.
  • Phone:
    • Appointments : 301-319-8600 ext. 139
    • Initial Appt. also with : 301-295-6288
    • Front Desk : 301-319-8600 ext. 139
    • Toll free Out of Area Appointments : (866) 628-9633
    • Fax: 301-400-1300
  • Hours of Operation:
    • Monday thru Friday 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM

• Appointments

Preplan by downloading and filling out paperwork before visit to make the process quicker.

• Initial Paper work
  1. Initial Assesment
  2. BDI
  3. ODI
• Follow up paperwork
  1. Follow-up Pain Assessment
  2. ODI
• Directions for procedures

Wounded Warrior Pain Care Initiative Program

Wounded Warrior Pain Care Initiative

Complimentary Alternative Medicine

Wounded Warrior Family Informative Talks

Annual Pain Care Symposium website-
www.woundedwarriorpaincare.com

This is a demonstration project to examine the role of providing dedicated pain management services to the Wounded Warrior population. The population is at higher than average risk of experiencing problems related to polypharmacy. The feedback from patients, family members, and primary care staff has been very positive. This project will improve access to care within the National Capital Area for Wounded Warriors suffering with pain.