Anesthesiology Associates of Sheboygan developed the area’s first Pain Clinic in 1979 at St. Nicholas Hospital. Since that time we added a Pain Clinic at the Sheboygan Surgery Center, located at 3141 Saemann Avenue on the St. Nicholas Hospital medical campus.

Meet Our Pain Clinic Physicians
Anesthesiology Associates of Sheboygan is comprised of six board certified anesthesiologist. However, of these six highly skilled physicians, three specialize in pain management and practice at the Anesthesiology Associates’ Pain Clinics.

	Joseph S. Bernstein, MD St. Nicholas Hospital Medical Liaison of the Interventional Pain Clinic Anesthesiology Associates of Sheboygan St. Nicholas Hospital 3100 Superior Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 TEL: 920/459-4736 • FAX: 920/451-7592 View map
	Jeffrey T. Hansmann, MD Anesthesiology Associates of Sheboygan St. Nicholas Hospital 3100 Superior Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 TEL: 920/459-4736 • FAX: 920/451-7592 View map
	George L. Hess, MD, PhD Anesthesiology Associates of Sheboygan St. Nicholas Hospital 3100 Superior Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081 TEL: 920/459-4736 • FAX: 920/451-7592 View map

Pain Management
Pain management is an important part of patient care.  Today, more methods of treating pain are available than ever before, and, under the care of our highly qualified physicians, nearly every patient’s pain can be treated effectively, including sufferers of chronic back pain and cancer-related pain.

Evaluation and Treatment
Our physicians provide evaluations and treatments for a wide array of painful conditions.

We believe that when pain is controlled, patients suffer less, sleep better and have more vitality to enjoy their daily activities.

The Clinic provides some of the most advanced developments and proven techniques in finding the right treatment for our patients suffering from pain in the following (but not limited to) areas:
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• Back pain
• Neck pain
• Disc herniation
• Post herpetic neuralgia/shingles
• Painful bulging disc
• Spinal stenosis
• Acute postoperative pain
• Traumatic pain
• Phantom limb pain
• Facet syndrome
• Degenerative disc disease

Some of our advanced pain treatment techniques include:
• Epidural steroid injections
• Cervical
• Thoracic
• Lumbar
• Diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks
• Lumbar discography
• Sympathetic nerve blocks: for complex regional pain syndromes (reflex sympathetic dystrophy)
• Facet injections

We are pain management specialists managing aspects of both acute and chronic pain. Our team is concerned with both non-operative and peri-operative pain relief and helps patients understand their pain and how to relieve it – not only through treatment therapies – but also through lifestyle modification and education.

Where We Practice

For more information or to make an appointment call, (920) 451-7451