The practice
A diagnosis first, then a plan.
NJ Pain & Spine is an interventional pain practice with offices in Clifton, Jersey City and Edison. Dr. Ednan Sheikh founded it in 2011.
In short
NJ Pain & Spine treats spine and nerve pain without open surgery. Every visit starts with working out what is generating the pain, including EMG and nerve conduction testing done in our own offices. Treatment follows the diagnosis, not the other way around.
Most patients arrive having already been told what is wrong with them. A scan found a disc bulge, or a stenosis, or an arthritic joint. Findings like that are common in people with no pain at all. The question that matters is whether the finding on the film is the thing actually causing the symptom in front of us, and that question is answered by history, examination and, when the picture is unclear, electrodiagnostic testing.
Once the source is identified, the interventional toolkit is useful and often decisive. Epidural injections, nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation and joint injections are done through a needle under image guidance, take fifteen to thirty minutes, and the patient goes home the same day. Used without a diagnosis they are guesswork.
The practice runs on a small scale on purpose. Dr. Sheikh performs the procedures, reads the nerve studies, and sees the follow-ups. A large share of patients come through workers' compensation and auto claims, so the staff handles authorizations and carrier paperwork directly rather than sending patients to chase it.
Founded
2011
Patients treated
Over 10,000
Offices
Clifton, Jersey City, Edison
The physician
Dr. Ednan Sheikh, MD
Founder and Interventional Pain Physician. Director of Pain Services, Hudson Regional Hospital.
Dr. Ednan Sheikh is board certified in both Anesthesiology and Pain Management by the American Board of Anesthesiology. He trained in anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and completed his pain fellowship at the Tri-Institute of Pain in New York City, a program run jointly by NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He has practiced interventional pain medicine for more than fifteen years and has treated over ten thousand patients.
He is known as The Nerve Doc because of his work in electrodiagnostic medicine. EMG and nerve conduction studies show which nerve is injured, how badly, and whether the damage is recent or old. That answer changes the treatment plan. Dr. Sheikh performs and reads these studies himself and goes over the results with the patient the same day, rather than sending the test out and waiting a week for a report written by someone who never examined the patient.
He founded NJ Pain & Spine in 2011 and sees patients in Clifton on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, in Jersey City on Wednesdays, and in Edison on Thursdays. He served as Director of Pain Services at Jersey City Medical Center from 2013 to 2017 and has held the same role at Hudson Regional Hospital since 2018. His approach starts with a diagnosis. Injections, radiofrequency ablation, nerve blocks and the rest of the interventional toolkit are only useful once you know what is generating the pain.
Before medicine he earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at Lehigh University with high honors, where he wrestled at the Division I level and was elected to Tau Beta Pi and Omicron Delta Kappa. He was a Pennsylvania state champion and All-American wrestler at The Hill School. He published research on ventilator autotriggering caused by cardiogenic oscillations in Anesthesia & Analgesia in 2009, and appeared on The Dr. Oz Show in February 2013.
Pedigree
The rooms he learned in.
A pain fellowship split across three of the best hospitals in the country, anaesthesiology at Jefferson, and two hospitals that have since handed him their pain department.
Trained at
NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill CornellPain fellowship · 2009–2010
Hospital for Special SurgeryPain fellowship · 2009–2010
Memorial Sloan KetteringPain fellowship · 2009–2010
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalAnesthesiology residency · 2006–2009Jefferson Medical CollegeDoctor of Medicine · 2005
Lehigh UniversityB.S. Chemical Engineering, high honors · 1998Hospital appointments
Hudson Regional HospitalDirector of Pain Services · 2018 to present
Jersey City Medical CenterDirector of Pain Services · 2013–2017
NJ Pain & SpineFounder · 2011 to presentTraining
Education and credentials.
Board certification and licensure
Professional memberships
Languages spoken: English, Urdu
On camera
Dr. Sheikh in his own words.
Four short videos, including the February 2013 appearance on The Dr. Oz Show.
Where we are
Three offices, five days a week.
Call (888) 233-3415 and the staff will tell you which office has the earliest opening.
See a specialist this week.
Three New Jersey offices, most insurance accepted, and a real opening on the calendar.