Pain Medicine

You have the right to expect information about pain and pain relief measures from staff who are committed to pain prevention and management, who respond quickly to reports of pain and provide pain relief using state-of-the-art pain management.

Beaumont’s multidisciplinary pain medicine team is dedicated to the delivery of the highest quality and most compassionate level of care for those suffering from acute and chronic pain. The pain medicine team cares for both inpatients and outpatients using a variety of treatment modalities. We are committed to the delivery of integrated medical care of the highest quality, guided by cost-effective functional outcome and patient satisfaction.

What is Pain?

Pain is any unpleasant sensory and/or emotional experience, which is perceived as pain or discomfort and described by the patient him/herself. Patients perceive pain in many different ways.

What is Acute Pain?

Acute pain is distinguished as being of recent onset, transient and usually from an identifiable cause.

What is Chronic Pain?

Chronic or persistent pain can be described as ongoing or recurrent pain, lasting beyond the usual course of acute illness or injury or more than three to six months which adversely affects the individual’s well being. It is pain that continues when it should not.