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Integrative Pain Management
Pain management had
its birth in anesthesiology, the
medical discipline that relieves
pain during surgery. Today, pain
management is a subspecialty of
anesthesiology where anesthesiology
pain practitioners provide consultations
and care for a wide variety of
acute, chronic and cancer-related
pain problems.
Integrative medicine is a relatively
new term that implies a holistic
approach to healthcare. It is
based upon, and strongly embraces,
the osteopathic and naturopathic
concept that we possess a self-regulating,
self-healing system that gives us
a natural tendency toward healing. The
human body has within itself – within
certain limits – the capacity
for repair and adaptation. As
Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, the founder
of osteopathy, suggests, “Within
our body is a capacity for health. If
this capacity is recognized and normalized,
disease can be both prevented and
treated.”
Integrated medicine pain management
is a total patient-care philosophy
incorporating conventional pain management
techniques with alternative and complementary
therapies for the relief of pain,
the promotion of health and well
being.
The
Integrative Health Network
Because a single practitioner is
not a specialist in nor able to provide,
all possible pain related treatments,
the Integrative Health Network has
been formed. This is a collaborative
effort organized by the KishHealth System
Department of Anesthesiology Pain
Clinics to provide you with easy
access to various integrative medicine
practitioners involved in the multiple
aspects of the assessment and treatment
of pain. With this arrangement
we can offer a variety of treatment
techniques and modalities
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