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About Us

The Center for Pediatric & Adolescent Pain Care is devoted to personalized, safe and comprehensive pain and symptom management in children, adolescents, and adults.  We start by listening and having the belief that functioning can always improve.

Your pain and symptoms are real. No matter the cause, no kid should have to live with chronic or recurrent pain, fatigue, headache, dizziness, or nausea. Your symptoms should not stop you from going to school, being with your friends and doing the things you want to do.
Your child should not have to live with chronic or recurrent pain, fatigue, nausea, or behavioral problems. When pain interferes with your child’s ability to go to school, participate in family activities or simply enjoy their life your entire family is affected.  You should not have to take the symptoms into consideration with every decision.
CPAPC specializes in the care of any child or young adult who is suffering from chronic or recurrent headache, abdominal pain, back pain, joint pain, body pain, nerve pain, fatigue, nausea, dizziness, and/ or any other vague or difficult to treat symptoms.

About Dr. Michael Joseph

Pediatric Pain Management is a young field. Before 1980 there was little literature on even post-surgical pediatric pain, let alone chronic pain in children. The first academic outpatient pediatric pain clinics started in the 90’s and to this day exist only associated with pediatric institutions. Dr. Michael Joseph MD is a board-certified pediatrician who was trained in that system. Dr. Joseph has dedicated his career to the care for children and young adults with chronic pain. He is responsible for creating two pain clinics at major children’s hospitals and is one of only a handful of pediatrician pain specialists in the country.

After graduating Cum Laude from Creighton University School of Medicine and at the top of his residency at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center, Dr. Joseph started his Pediatric Pain Management career at UCLA Medical Center.  After leaving UCLA Dr. Joseph created a flourishing outpatient pain clinic at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. For the six years he was at CHLA he cared for hundreds of children suffering from chronic pain. Dr. Joseph then had the opportunity to create a clinic for Nationwide Children’s Hospital. For the past decade Dr Joseph has been in private practice where he can care for his patients with the individualized care that patients and family living with chronic pain require.  Dr Joseph’s research interests involve the application of complementary therapies for the treatment of chronic pain and the study of measurable clinical outcomes for these patients.

A portrait of Dr. Michael Joseph, the head of the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Pain Care