Paulding County Hospital has opened a balanced pain management center at the hospital. Paulding Pain Management Center will diagnose acute and chronic pain and create individualized treatment plans for patients based on a number of considerations, including the cause and 
level of pain. Diagnoses treated at the center include neck and back pain, headaches, fibromyalgia, chronic pelvic pain, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), nerve damage, as well as pain associated with arthritis, muscle spasms and shingles.
The center will be staffed by Dr. John Buonocore, a board certified and fellowship trained pain management specialist. Dr. Buonocore was fellowship trained in pain medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He completed his residency at St Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in New York.
Paulding Pain Management Center is committed to patients for the life of their pain and compliance with their care plans. The center establishes an agreement with the patient that holds him or her accountable to using only one pharmacy and one prescribing physician, keeping medications safe from loss or theft, and complying to pill counts and urine drug testing.
“People who have acute or chronic pain that is preventing them from living their normal life may be a good candidate for this program,” says Dr. Buonocore. “We offer some of the most advanced treatments available today for pain management. These treatments are more tolerable and less invasive than in the past,” he adds.
“There is a significant need for this type of service in our community,” says Randy Ruge, CEO of Paulding County Hospital. “We are very pleased to provide local, safe and effective pain treatment to patients and their primary care physicians. The last thing these patients need is to travel long distances for treatment when they’re already in pain.”
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call the Paulding Pain Management Center at 419.399.1745.
