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Pain Management / Lifestyle Recovery Program
We help people learn about their conditions, create a strategy for recovery an get involved in restoring daily life.
While chronic pain may require medication there are other behavioral and attitudinal aspects of life we will explore that can complement medical treatment and help improve your quality of life. We will help you
- Reduce the impact of pain on daily life
- Learn about the "Gate Control Theory" of pain: how to close the gate to reduce pain through distration, relaxation, emotional and cognitive techniques
- Learn how physical, emotional and social efects maintain the cycle of pain
- Understand and use specific tools to manage the relationship between stress, anxiety and depression and their impact on chronic pain
- learn skills for better coping with pain
- Improve physical and emotional functioning
- Reduce pain symptoms and reliance on pain medication
- Prevent overuse or addiction to medications
- Acquire and use tools for self-management of chronic pain
Links to further reading:
Harvard Medical School on Depression and Pain
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Depression_and_pain.htm
Harvard Medical School
http://www.health.harvard.edu/family-health-guide/updates/pain-anxiety-and-depression
HUT Southwestern (University of Texas) behavioral medicine component of their comprehensive chronic pain clinic
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/patientcare/medicalservices/pain/behavior.html
Columbia University Medical Center chronic pain comprehensive approach
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/anesthesiology/patient/pain_center/chronic.html
Kaiser Permanente – Permanente Journal on treating depression, anxiety and stress and the vicious cycle of pain as an integral part of a multimodal pain management treatment plan
http://xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/fall05/pain3.html
National Institute of Health study on the positive effects of meditation on stress and pain
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20004298
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