I scheduled my appt with the doctor in May and it was supposed to be for 7/17. Yesterday, I…read morereceived a call that the doctor won't be able to see me this week and they will need to bump my appt to AUGUST 21ST!! That's over a month away and I've been in need of pain management and have patiently waited for my first appt. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS! I can understand changing the appt to maybe next week but August? Truly this doctor and his staff don't really care about patient needs. No way am I waiting until August. Will find a better place.

I've been a Patient of Dr Hattori's for 20 years.. Such an…read moreexcellent Doctor..caring & very informative.

Dr. Bartoli, provides excellent care. He is very patient and considerate which are qualities that…read moreseparate his practice from the rest. Highly recommend.

Dr. Adrian Bartoli is truly one of the best doctors I have encountered throughout my mother's…read morehealthcare journey. My mother suffered thoracic fractures and had to be rushed to the emergency room twice due to severe spinal and neck pain. Both times, Dr. Bartoli treated her, referred to us by the hospital doctors. During an incredibly stressful period for our family, he was calm, patient, and compassionate. What stood out most was how carefully he listened. He took the time to thoroughly explain my mother's condition, the procedures, and what we could expect in recovery. He never rushed us, and he made sure I understood everything. His bedside manner is exceptional -- kind, reassuring, and professional. I also deeply appreciate that he does not default to prescribing painkillers. Instead, he encourages a holistic approach to recovery and long-term improvement. At our follow-up appointment, he discussed multiple strategies to support my mother's healing beyond just medication, which gave us confidence that he truly cares about sustainable health outcomes. It's rare to find a doctor who combines technical skill, integrity, and genuine compassion the way Dr. Bartoli does. We are incredibly grateful for his care, and I would highly recommend him to anyone seeking thoughtful and patient-centered treatment.

Dr. Minkowsky has been incredibly helpful in my recovery after struggling with sciatica for over a…read moreyear. Thanks to his care and guidance, I'm finally able to move and return to exercise. He is attentive, knowledgeable, and he cares about his patients. The office staff is also very kind, professional, and efficient!

I went to Dr. Minkowsky for a elbow injury - I was told it was tennis elbow but he figured out it's…read moreactually the other elbow injury that is common: "golf elbow". The first step to a solution is to identify the problem! Anyway, he was so much more effective than the physical therapist that I have been going to. He did some adjustments and gave me some simple exercises that solved my problem after years of suffering with this elbow injury (that somehow traveled from one elbow to the other).

Very nice guy but did not solve my problem…read moreI went to his brother Hoyman Hong who did solve the problem

Dr. Hong seems wonderful as a person, but he hasn't treated me. He mentioned that he was referring…read moreme to UCSF Pain Management Center, but they haven't received the referral and I am having trouble getting any calls/emails/texts answered by the office. I will updated this review later to see if anything changes.

Elanita is amazing! 10/10 would recommend! I have had consistent shoulder pain from volleyball…read moreinjuries and the dry needing she does has been the only relief I have had! I have tried many different treatments but her treatments have been the only thing that works!

So incredibly helpful, from intake/insurance verification to actual treatment. I immediately…read morenoticed relief after my first treatment. I truly felt like concerns were listened to and addressed. Would highly recommend!

I first saw Dr. Hong at St. Francis Sports Medicine after sliding down a flight of stairs on my bum…read moreand going to physical therapy for nearly a year. Dr. Hong told me that the pain was from my L3, 4, and 5 vertebrae, but also said that the MRI didn't show any damage (something about jelly donuts that made absolutely no sense). Ignoring the lack of damage and still saying it was my spine causing the pain. he proceeded to schedule me for a $20,000 injection which included the fentanyl I told him had nearly killed me in a previous epidural. "Yeah, some people get a little sick from the injections," he told me, not mentioning that there are alternatives to fentanyl. Does everyone require a 2 week stay in the ICU after the injections? I doubt it. So after the procedure, a friend walked me home and I went on to an ER at a different hospital to be monitored. Hong did not care that he could have killed me, and did not care that it had happened to me before in another city, another hospital, long before there was a mychart or even internet. He prescribed me tramadol because the injections only gave relief for a couple months. I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and tramadol, along with anything ending in -caine literally does not work on us. (Dentists are so fun.) But Dr. Hong proceeded to lecture me about drug abuse when I asked for something that would help, in front of his staff, in front of patients. Yes, I quit crystal meth 30 years ago and never looked back... it only took 3 years of use to ruin my life completely. And it's the opposite of opiates. But he broadcast my history to everyone who could hear him shouting at me in the lobby. I called the St. Francis ombudsman to complain about his violating my HIPAA privacy rights, and Dr. Hong proceeded to get me banned from several pain clinics in the city. (I was advised never to sue a doctor as I would find it hard to get another one. Apparently doctors have their own "blue wall" through the AMA.) 5 years later and 2500 miles east, a knowledgeable doctor also pointed out that there was no injury to my spine. The injury is to my SI joint. Why did Dr. Hong stop at my lumbar vertebrae despite having no injury to them? Was it so he could charge my insurance $20,000 for a lethal injection? It seems likely. If he were a halfway decent doctor, he would have kept looking for the source of my pain, wouldn't he have? According to my friends in the medical field, he absolutely should have realized that my healthy lumbar vertebrae were not the problem, and he absolutely should have realized that my lower back and buttock pain was my damaged SI joint. There's a reason this man is not at UCSF or CPMC. He's a greedy conman posing as a doctor. I can't tell you how thrilled I was when my attorney talked my insurance into only paying 10% of his charge. He shouldn't have gotten that much; it took 6 more years to discover the root of my pain. There was no need for him to nearly kill me. There was no need for my continued suffering. There was no need for him to shout at me, let alone shout at me over my decades-past dependency on something that is as close to the opposite of opiates as you can get, in front of both staff and patients. UCSF took over St. Francis Hospital. I certainly hope they got rid of such a dangerously greedy alleged pain specialist. He ought to lose his license after using fentanyl on me after I told him it nearly killed me in an earlier spinal. Do not put your life in the care of this man. He is evil incarnate, deliberately poisoning people so he can charge them $20k.

I am extremely disappointed by the unprofessional treatment I received. Don't get me wrong,…read moreeveryone was pleasant enough. However, Dr. Hoylong Hong, never offered any assistance in managing my pain. He seemed to surmise that my issue was opiate addiction which I certainly accept because I have been treating chronic pain with prescribed opiates. I had taken the initiative to explore "acupuncture treatment". I was initially excited after the first couple of treatments, my pain returned. Understanding the pressure the federal government is placing on opiate abuse, I was more than willing to explore other options. Just like I had thought of trying "acupuncture", I was hoping that Dr. Hong had other possible alternatives to explore. Instead, he incorrectly emailed my doctor that I had refused Suboxone when he never even mentioned that to me. Then when I returned to explore Suboxone, he failed to simply say that it is a drug to assist withdrawals from opiates. The drug has no properties to treat the post herpetic pain I was suffering for over a decade. Dr. Hong seems like a nice enough person. However, his inability to be direct and straightforward with a college educated near senior patient destroyed any possibility of building a trusting relationship. If the Pain Mgmt Clinic has no possibility of how to help a patient manage pain, what exactly are they in business to do.

I've been a chronic pain patient for a little over 20 years. When the problem first appeared I…read moretried to work through it for nearly a year and finally had surgery to correct it, which it only partially did (no reflection on the surgeon) so I entered the world of chronic pain management. It's not a pleasant place that can also be confusing. After a number of years with different providers I was unhappy with the results. Fortunately I was referred to Dr. Robert Savala in San Francisco and his assistant Dierdre Jo about 15 years ago for interventional pain management. Within no time it was apparent that I was dealing with the right people. My chief pain complaint was lower lumbar, from L-4 to S-1, with significant and crippling bouts of sciatic nerve problems. After a thorough evaluation we agreed that Transforaminal Epidurals were the most likely procedure to yield good results for me. The decision was made after a strong collaborative approach, where he listened to me outline my complex medical history for as long as it took, and he then thoroughly outlined possible approaches and we agreed on a course of action. I'm happy to say that the results were excellent, and every time I've run up against another episode we repeat that same process as needed and keep getting good results. Finally, as for collaboration, his assistant Dierdre Jo is a huge part of the process from start to finish, getting me in to see him and then into surgery centers as quickly as possible. People typically only write reviews if they're either really pleased or really not pleased, and that's true here. Real chronic pain is bad enough to live with, I've seen and been treated by the best, and I've never met anyone I'd rather work with than Dr. Savala and Dierdre Jo.

I am a nurse and have known Dr. Savala professionally and personally for 25 years. I am now a…read morepatient and am thankful that he is my doctor. I've had long covid symptoms for 3 years and the fatigue has been debilitating at times. A friend told me about a stellate ganglion block helping someone she knew and I talked about it with Dr. Savala. We agreed it was worth trying and it has been a game changer and I feel like I have my life back.

Kind, caring, gentle. I've known Dr.Rejai for 10 years and he has always been willing to listen and…read moreaddress my chief complaints. His smile will make you feel better immediately! We are blessed to have his expertise!

This review is for Sutter/the pain management clinic who work with Dr. Rejai. I waited weeks for an…read moreappointment for my severely herniated disc. While my appointment went well, the standard insurance paper work for a cortisone shot (the most common intervention other than pain meds) was rejected, and no one from the office followed up. There were no follow up notes after my appointment for next steps. My primary seemed very surprised that this routine procedure was denied which makes me suspect that they didn't do the minimal paperwork required. When you call 'the office', you reach someone at the main switchboard who presumably passes on a message which may or may not be returned. In my case, it was not even though I requested that they resubmit the paperwork. Keep in mind that many many people reaching out to a pain management doctor are in excruciating, debilitating pain. When I finally went in, I was barely able to walk and had to lie down during the appointment due to the extreme pain. Currently, I'm repeatedly leaving messages at the switchboard attempting to try to get my cortisone shot months after all medical staff I met with agreed that it was necessary. If you are in an acute, debilitating situation with your pain, I'd recommend you seek someone who runs a more responsive office.

I had Dr. Sandhu as my QME doctor (for worker's compensation) and he was helpful in giving me a…read morecorrect evaluation and put in an order for a nerve test. Anyone who has been through Worker Comp knows that many providers don't like treating WC injuries and I've had several rude doctors give me false information and diagnosis that hindered my ability to obtain treatment. Dr. Sandhu is friendly, helpful and I'm finally on the right track to getting proper care.

From the owner: Paul Sandhu, MD, is a five board-certified doctor with 15 years of expertise, offering pain…read moremanagement at PainSolvers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and Honolulu. Dr. Sandhu earned his academic scholarship from Ohio State University and his medical degree from Ohio State University College of Medicine, both in Columbus, Ohio. He completed an internship at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus and a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency through Harvard University's Spaulding Rehabilitation. Committed to lifelong learning, Dr. Sandhu then returned to school to earn an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Sandhu is a fellow of the American Board Analysts and the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is also board-certified in sports medicine, anti-aging and pain medicine. Dr. Sandhu has shared his knowledge and expertise in numerous medical journals, publications and presentations.

I cannot express how much hope the relief I've gotten from seeing Kate has given me in my 20+ years…read moreof living in chronic pain. Now I finally feel like there's a light at the end of the tunnel and I don't have to be stuck like this forever. I thought I'd tried everything in the book: every massage modality, supplements, strength training, PT, dozens of specialists and integrative medicine docs, acupuncture...etc. When a friend recommended myofascial massage, I rolled my eyes at first because I didn't believe it'd be any different. But I was so desperate for any bit of relief that I finally booked an appointment. I walked out of my first appointment with Kate with no to low neck pain. It was promising, but I was cautious. Throughout that week, I found that my pain levels stayed consistently low, whereas with other treatments and therapies, I would've been back in a full-blown flare-up by the end of the day or the next day at best. I hit 4-5 days before the tension, pain, and headaches returned -- a new record! Even though flare-ups still take weeks to correct, the trend is that overall pain is going down. It's given me hope that the rest of my body can get out of pain too. Kate is very experienced and understands how interconnected everything in your body is; she's been able to identify locked-up areas without my having to explicitly ask about it. Seeing Kate has been life changing and myofascial massage has been an effective addition to my existing pain management program (PT, acupuncture, CBT). The only downside is that Kate's availability is so limited and slots go so quickly, which makes it difficult to get consistent care. Highly recommend this practitioner!

Kate is an amazing healer and I highly recommended her myofascial expertise! My chronic neck,…read moreshoulder, and TMJ stiffness has dissipated with each session. I've been going weekly for a few months and can attest that the pain relief is life changing. I love how easy it is to book a session online and look forward to each one. She is super sought out and booked months in advance but so worth the wait! There is a parking garage close by to the office and street parking all around.