- Departments and Centers
- Departments
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Clinical Centers
- Brain and Spine Tumor Center
- Center for Parkinson's Disease and Related Movement Disorders
- Center for Cognitive and Memory Disorders
- Center for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Health (Clinical Care)
- Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
- Ohio State Spine Care
- Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Center
- Neuromuscular Disorders Center
- Nisonger Center
- Comprehensive Pain Center
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Research Centers
- Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair
- Center for Brain Health and Performance
- Spinal Cord Injury Resources, Rehabilitation and Research
- The Belford Center for Spinal Cord Injury
- Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
- Nisonger Center
- Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
- Traumatic Brain Injury Network
Our Comprehensive Pain Center supports innovative research on the management of chronic painful conditions and clinical trials to improve patient function, treatment outcomes and quality of life.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Comprehensive Pain Center provides management alternatives for patients whose pain results from chronic conditions other than cancer or spinal injury or disease, such as:
- Advanced arthritic pain of the hips or knees, pancreatic and other abdominal pain
- Chronic kidney and bladder pain
- Post-inguinal hernia repair pain
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Chronic regional pain syndrome (formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy)
- Sacroiliac pain
- Facial pain
- Migraine
- Occipital neuralgia
- Other chronic headache conditions
Physical therapy is an integral part of the center. We also use advanced procedures such as sacroiliac radiofrequency nerve ablation, neural field stimulator implantation for non-spine painful conditions, intrathecal drug delivery implantation for non-spine pain conditions and radiofrequency ablation of other peripheral sensory nerves.
At our Narcotic Reduction Clinic, clinic physicians determine a reasonable coordinated treatment plan to gradually reduce doses of pain medicine through a combination of medicine schedules, procedures, periodic intravenous infusions, referral to other therapies and substitution of medicines.
The Comprehensive Pain Center is a core component of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Neurological Institute, which brings together physicians, scientists, nurses and therapists to develop new technologies and better treatments for people with complex pain and headaches.

Our Team
At the Comprehensive Pain and Headache Center, our multidisciplinary team collaborates to provide cutting-edge patient care while researching the latest treatments and discoveries.