Get answers to your hand injury or surgery questions by e-mailing Dr. Kanchana Gattu.
Watch videos on common pain management topics, including an overview of the UM Pain Management Center, featuring Dr. Thelma Wright.
The Pain Management Center at Kernan: Taking the Pain Out of Interventional Pain Management.
Chronic pain is a multifaceted and complex syndrome, which adversely affects a person's physical, emotional, socioeconomic, and spiritual well-being. It can disrupt human relationships, creativity, productivity and impact the quality of life.
At the University of Maryland Pain Management Center, we are committed to improving the lives of people with chronic pain. Our assessment, treatment and prevention services focus on enriching the lives of the people we serve. We integrate traditional and complementary medicine and use a multidisciplinary team approach. (See Pain Management Center feature story.)
At the University of Maryland Pain Management Center, our objectives are: