The Mount Sinai FPA Pain Management Program serves/ provides services to patients in the outpatient and inpatient hospital setting. The Chronic Pain Management Program helps patients with long-term pain to perform the activities of daily living more easily. Patients are seen either in the hospital or in the Anesthesiology-Pain Management faculty practice offices for evaluation and treatment. Pain relief is achieved by a combination of medications and interventional procedures. The outpatient Pain Office also provides alternative modalities of treatment such as acupuncture and electrodiagnostic studies such as EMG. The program provides individually tailored medication regimens to relieve discomfort with minimal side-effects. For surgical patients in Acute Pain, this approach helps reduce the risk of complications and may speed recovery and discharge from the hospital. A member of the Department of Anesthesiology is available in the hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Every Faculty Practice Associate is a staff member of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.