Norwood Hospital Opens New Pain Management Center

Norwood Hospital has relocated its Pain Management Center to a new clinical outpatient space within the hospital.

The new site continues to offer the most complete pain management program in the region. Medical Director Allison Gorski, MD, oversees the Pain Management Center. She is joined by Christopher Hummel, DO and Jennifer Millen, MD, MPH, and a staff of nurses and a behavioral health specialist all with training in comprehensive pain management.

Together, this team uses the latest medical, psychological and lifestyle techniques to help patients relieve and manage chronic pain.

“We are delighted to offer these comprehensive services for the convenience of patients experiencing complex pain issues,” said John Holiver, the hospital’s president. “Our goal is to achieve positive long-term outcomes for our community members.”

The Pain Management Center at Norwood Hospital offers help to patients with conditions such as back and neck pain, including herniated discs, spinal stenosis and tumors, chronic abdominal pain, complex regional pain syndrome, intractable spasticity, muscle and joint pain, disorders of the nervous system, including shingles and trigeminal neuralgia (facial pain), and pain associated with AIDS and cancer.

With a referral from a physician, patients are evaluated by the multidisciplinary team in a supportive, compassionate environment. Norwood Hospital’s Pain Management Center provides patients individualized treatment plans for their pain that includes medical, psychological, physical, and pharmacological treatments.

The center also offers specialized treatments on an outpatient basis for severe pain, including nerve ablation to remove nerves that create pain sensations, vertebroplasty to treat spine compression fractures and a diskectomy to reduce the disk size and relieve nerve pressure.

For more information or to make a referral, you can contact the center at 781-278-4566 or pain.management@steward.org