Center for Pain Management

How to contact Saint Anne's Hospital Center for Pain Management

• Telephone for all Center for Pain Management services:  508-675-5640, or toll-free 1-888-675-PAIN (1-888-675-7246)
• Fax:  508-674-4626
• E-mail:  pain.management@caritaschristi.org
• Address:  795 Middle Street, Fall River, MA 02721-1798
• Now open: Our new satellite location at 440 Swansea Mall Drive, Swansea, MA 02777

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Our approach to the management of chronic pain: comprehensive care

Since 1994, Saint Anne's Hospital 's Center for Pain Management - the only coordinated, interdisciplinary team of pain management specialists in Southeastern Massachusetts - has offered the most modern techniques, state-of-the-art equipment and highly skilled pain specialists to treat a wide range of common chronic pain complaints.

Treatment philosophy
Research has shown that effective pain management requires a comprehensive approach that incorporates the most advanced medical, psychological, and lifestyle technologies to eliminate or reduce chronic pain.  Our treatment philosophy remains open to new developments in the area of pain management. Our goal is to offer each patient a "package" of beneficial components. However, we recommend only treatments that have been shown to be effective in sound scientific research.  We continue to expand our range of treatment services.

Interdisciplinary planning
Saint Anne's Center for Pain Management adheres to a strong coordinated interdisciplinary approach. Our treatment staff includes several different areas of expertise. Weekly clinical conferences allow us to develop interdisciplinary treatment plans and objectives for each new patient. Treatment outcomes are also reviewed at weekly conferences.

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Common chronic pain problems treated at Saint Anne's Hospital's Center for Pain Management

Back pain	Post-herpetic neuralgia
Cancer-related pain	Post-laminectomy pain
Chronic neck pain	Post-mastectomy pain
Diabetes-related pain	Post-operative pain
Fibromyalgia	Post-thoracotomy pain
HIV-related pain	Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
Intercostal neuralgia	Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
Ischemic-related pain	Neurogenic pain
Myofascial pain

Treatment for the most common pain problems may include:

• Physical conditioning and rehabilitative programs to improve or restore functional capacity
• Behavioral medicine components including relaxation training, stress management, and pain reduction training
• Psychological interventions to address components of depression and anxiety and to foster pain-coping responses
• Medication management
• Peripheral and sympathetic nerve blocks
• Epidural steroids injections
• Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
• Diagnostic facet joint injection
• Vertebroplasty
• Spinal implantation techniques for electrical stimulation or medical administration
• Integration of supplementary components

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Our team

Our Pain Management specialists

Our team of physicians and behavioral health specialists is specially trained in the treatment of chronic pain. 

Our physicians

• Allison Gorski, MD, medical director, Center for Pain Management, and chief of anesthesiology, Saint Anne's Hospital
• Eric Dominguez, MD
• William E. Guptill, DMD, MD
• Jan J. Kraemer, MD
• Ian A. Rivera-Colon, MD
• Christopher Stowe, MD

Our behavioral health specialists

• Donald P. Corriveau, PhD, FPPR
• Myrna Condon, MA

Our support staff

• Registered nurse specialists, including some who were among the nation's first nurses nationally certified in pain management
• Physiatrist
• Physical therapists
• Interpreter services (Portuguese, Spanish, Khmer, and other languages)

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Insurance coverage

The Center for Pain Management accepts most major health insurance plans.  To receive care, you need to obtain a referral from your primary care doctor.  Our team will work closely with your primary care doctor during your treatment.

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Now open: Saint Anne's Center for Pain Management satellite site - Swansea, MA Located at: 440 Swansea Mall Drive, Swansea, MA 02777 Meeting patients' needs in the Swansea-Seekonk-East Bay, RI, area Since its inception in 1994, Saint Anne’s Hospital’s Center for Pain Management has seen exponential growth.  What began as a small clinic with one physician and one nurse in response to area physicians’ requests is today a bustling multidisciplinary specialty center that addresses a spectrum of chronic pain conditions experienced by patients from across southeastern Massachusetts and nearby Rhode Island. While Saint Anne’s number of pain management patients has increased dramatically over the years (more than 50 percent in the last five years alone), and the staff has grown in both number and expertise, the space within which to treat patients has maximized its potential.  To accommodate patients’ needs, especially the growing number from communities west of Fall River and in the nearby East Bay area of Rhode Island, the Center for Pain Management has expanded to Swansea, MA.  Located at 440 Swansea Mall Drive (Route 118), the new 11,000-square-foot center duplicates the same “one-stop” care offered at the hospital’s clinic.  The Swansea facility (above)  includes: central waiting area two procedure rooms equipped with state-of-the-art C-arms for fluoroscopic procedures, such as vertebroplasty ten pre- and post-procedure rooms two minor treatment rooms eight exam rooms two behavioral medicine areas combined conference/office space.  The location on the Massachusetts-Rhode Island line is easily accessible via routes I-195, 6, and 118 and offers plentiful on-site parking.  “We’re excited that we are able to offer this new facility for our patients,” said Allison Gorski, MD, the center’s medical director.  “It allows us to provide the best of patient care in both locations and give those coming from communities west of Fall River even easier access to that care.”

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We'd like to hear from you!
As you learn more about your own pain condition, please share your knowledge with other pain sufferers. You may e-mail us with your recommendations of Web sites that have helped you. Or if any of the information on our site has been helpful to you, please let us know. Simply e-mail us at pain.management@caritaschristi.org.