UCSF Center for Pain Medicine

Connect with a team that can help you find resources, solve problems and advocate for you during treatment at UCSF.

This eight-week class teaches mindfulness practices that can reduce stress and improve your overall health, such as meditation and body awareness.

Feedback service to contact UCSF Health with comments, questions, or concerns about your experience.

Chaplains representing many faiths are available around the clock to provide support, comfort and counsel to patients, families and caregivers.

Working with your other providers, including your primary care provider, to manage medications for pain.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction, cognitive behavioral therapy and biofeedback in both individual and group settings.

Includes trigger point injections and ultrasound- or X-ray-guided steroid injections and nerve blocks.

Applying electrical current to nerves in order to block pain signals to the brain, including the Intracept™ Procedure for chronic low back pain.

Therapies such as prolotherapy and platelet-rich plasma therapy to accelerate healing and regrowth of injured tissues.

Infusion therapy with medications, such as ketamine and lidocaine.

Treats spinal canal narrowing that compresses nerve fibers using a minimally invasive approach.

Delivering electrical stimulation or drug infusions directly to nerves, including surgically implanted devices like spinal cord stimulators and intrathecal pain pumps.

Administering medication into the epidural space to relieve pain.

Delivering medication directly into the spinal canal via implanted pumps.

Injecting medications into joints to relieve pain and inflammation.

Injecting medication near nerves to block pain signals.

Implanting devices that deliver electrical pulses to the spinal cord to alleviate pain.