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.