Many people suffer from pains that interfere with their daily activities. Pain may disturb their sleep, which may in turn results in depression.
In the past, the medical community perceived pain as a symptom of the body's struggle against disease, but lately there is increased awareness to pain treatment and the proclamation of the European Community that pain is an independent disease entity and is gaining more and more ground. As a result, there is an increasing consensus that the approach to pain requires broad, knowledgeable and multidisciplinary treatment.
The pain clinic at Ramat Aviv Medical Center now joins a small number of similar exclusive treatment clinics that were not widely accessible to the general public. The clinic is a multidisciplinary unit operated by doctors with specialist training in the treatment of pain.

The goal of the treatment is to achieve a genuine and lasting solution leading to the disappearance or at least substantial alleviation of pain and reduction of suffering, thus enabling patients to resume normal activities and regain a high quality of life.
Some of the new technologies implemented in pain clinics enable the provision of ambulatory services, rather than in the framework of hospital admission. The pain clinic is under the supervision and active management of a doctor who is a specialist in pain treatment. It is a multidisciplinary clinic offering patients individual professional care. In the event that additional diagnostic procedures are found necessary, these will be performed with a referral to the appropriate professionals for diagnosis. The pain clinic staff maintains ongoing contact with such specialists for purposes of diagnosis and discussing treatment modalities.

Pain - you don’t have to "learn to live with it."
Some pains are unexplained, while others have an obvious cause.

With focused and appropriate therapy, pain can be conquered even without surgical intervention. The specific therapeutic technique is chosen by the specialist doctor based on his diagnosis.

Is the treatment similar in all kinds of pain?
Definitely not! There are many methods, some invasive and others non-invasive. The non-invasive methods are medical treatments using drugs, sometimes used in a combination of oral and intravenous administration.

Invasive treatments include: radio wave therapy, nerve blocks by various methods under imaging control, implanting of pumps for pain alleviation and implanting electrodes for electrical stimulation.