About Metro Pain Centers
Your doctor says "learn to live with it." Your insurance sends you in circles. Meanwhile the pain in your hip wakes you at 3 AM and you lie there wondering if this is just how life works now.
How Metro Pain Centers Started
Pain medicine in the United States has a subspecialty gap. Primary care physicians identify pain but lack the procedural tools to treat it at its source. Surgeons offer operations that many patients do not need.
The space between those two options is where interventional pain management lives. Dr. Rahul Sood founded Metro Pain Centers to fill that gap across New Jersey and New York.
He assembled a team of board-certified anesthesiologists and pain medicine specialists. These physicians trained at Mount Sinai, Rutgers, Thomas Jefferson University, and SUNY Upstate Medical University.
The practice started with a single office in Clifton, NJ. Patient demand drove expansion to 12 locations — 7 in New Jersey and 5 in New York.
Every office delivers the same clinical standard. Every physician follows the same evidence-based protocols. What changes is the address, not the quality of care.
Metro Pain Centers now treats 46 distinct pain conditions using 8 specialized treatment pathways. Our physicians perform fluoroscopy-guided nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation, and epidural steroid injections daily.
This multidisciplinary model combines interventional procedures with physical therapy and regenerative medicine. Patients do not need to coordinate care across multiple providers — the practice handles everything under one roof.
Meet Your Pain Specialists
Experience
Led by Dr. Rahul Sood
Dr. Rahul Sood, founder of Metro Pain Centers, serves as Chairman of Anesthesiology at New Bridge Medical Centers. His leadership sets the clinical standard across all 12 locations.
Our physicians hold board certifications in anesthesiology and pain medicine, bringing expertise from the nation's top medical institutions.
Board-Certified Pain Management Physicians
Board certification in pain medicine requires completion of an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited fellowship following residency in anesthesiology, physical medicine, or neurology. This additional training focuses on the diagnosis and interventional treatment of acute and chronic pain syndromes.
Every Metro Pain Centers physician holds dual board certification in anesthesiology and pain medicine. This is a verifiable credential through the American Board of Medical Specialties.
Our physicians trained at nationally recognized programs. Mount Sinai's pain fellowship ranks among the highest-volume interventional training programs in the Northeast.
Dr. Rahul Sood serves as Chairman of Anesthesiology at New Bridge Medical Centers. His institutional leadership sets the clinical standard across all 12 Metro Pain Centers locations.
The practice requires ongoing continuing medical education for every physician. Techniques like intrathecal drug delivery systems, implantable pumps that deliver medication directly to the spinal fluid, evolve constantly. Our pain specialists stay current.
Where Expertise Meets Compassion
Hear From Our Patients
The doctors actually listen to you and take time to explain everything. I finally found relief after years of back pain.
From my first visit, I felt like they genuinely cared about helping me get better. The staff is wonderful and the treatments changed my life.
After seeing multiple doctors with no improvement, Metro Pain Centers finally gave me a treatment plan that works. I can't recommend them enough.
Schedule Your Visit to Metro Pain Centers
You deserve a physician who listens, a diagnosis that makes sense, and a treatment plan that targets your pain at its source.