Discovery Center for Recovery from Chronic Pain

Pain affects a staggering number of Americans—over 100 million people; it is also the most prevalent reason Americans seek access to health care. Patients living with chronic pain often suffer from compounded challenges: 75% report low energy, nearly 80% report depression, and more than 85% report inability to sleep.¹ Yet, traditional methods for treating chronic pain are often palliative, fostering unhealthy opioid dependencies rather than addressing the root of pain directly.

Here at Spaulding, chronic pain recovery is treated through the integration of medicine, rehabilitation, and a vast array of research-based complementary therapies. Under the guidance of Dr. Ross Zafonte, Spaulding is already accelerating chronic pain recovery from back and joint pain, fibromyalgia, geriatric mobility, repetitive work trauma, cancer treatment, burn injury, and more. Spaulding researchers and clinicians lead a national stem cell education effort, sponsored by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, to promote innovative, pain eradicating therapies. Spaulding is also the only hospital in the U.S. to be awarded the prestigious Model System designation in Burn Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury all at the same time, by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research.

¹FairHealth.org