Our treatment approach recognizes the complexity of pain and adheres to a bio-psychosocial model of chronic pain. It integrates aggressive physical and occupational therapies with a mind-body approach to pain management. Weekly patient conferences help ensure high quality care.
The scope of treatment generally includes:
| • | Physical therapy - to help you regain strength, flexibility and endurance through an individually designed program |
| • | Occupational therapy - to help you to resume your daily activities without increased pain |
| • | Physiatry services - including medical acupuncture, medication management, pain interventional procedures, and trigger point and join injections |
After a comprehensive evaluation to establish goals, one of three distinct pain management programs may be recommended:
Functional Restoration — an intensive, structured, three-days-per-week (five-hours-per-day) program allowing you to learn to manage pain with the support of others who are also experiencing chronic pain.
Pain Service — similar activities as functional restoration are used, in a structured but less intensive approach.
Intractable Pain Clinic — an interdisciplinary, consultative service designed to assist primary care physicians with the medication management of patients with chronic pain who have not benefited from conservative medical, rehabilitative, interventional and/or surgical approaches for pain control.
All patients evaluated in this clinic must have a primary care referral and the primary care physician's agreement to assume care once an effective pharmacological regimen is established.