People’s Integrative Pain Management Program (IPMP) is designed to help our patients find different ways to manage and reduce chronic pain to improve daily living. The program is based on best practices by national medical organizations designed to help patients manage pain in hopes of improving overall quality of life. While part of the program may help patients reduce their pain medications, the IPMP does not start people on opioid medications. For more information, please talk to your provider at People’s.
AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO TREATING PAIN
We use multiple different strategies to help treat chronic pain and offer a wide menu of safe, effective treatment options with our team of providers. These include:
Depression, anxiety, and trauma can make physical pain more difficult. Therapy can help these issues and help you learn new ways of dealing with the physical pain.
Inflammation is a common problem with chronic pain and what we eat can affect it. We will talk about how our food choices affect chronic inflammation and chronic pain.
When we are in pain, we tense up which slows down recovery and makes the pain worse. To help the body heal we use acupuncture and traditional Chinese Medicine to help reduce that stress, tension, and pain in hopes of jump starting recovery.
Our yoga therapy is a one-on-one session with a yoga therapist to create a practice that is right for you. Yoga tools are chosen based on unique needs; they include yoga postures, breathing exercises, guided imagery to relax, and meditation. A regular practice of these powerful tools may reduce pain, anxiety, depression, negative effects of stress, and improve your quality of life.
Sometimes the things we do to lighten our pain (both physical and emotional) end up hurting us more in the end. If you have created a habit with drugs or alcohol that is no longer serving you, substance use counseling is available to help you explore different ways to find relief.
Sometimes you feel stuck where you live or work and that makes your pain worse. Our chronic pain care team includes lawyers to help patients get help with insurance coverage, disability claims, evictions, and more. Learn more about People’s Medical-Legal Partnership, click here.
Chronic pain groups are the building blocks for this program with the goal of connecting to learn from one another about how pain affects our bodies. The focus of our groups is on how to better manage the pain through nutrition, reducing stress, improving sleep, exercise, and other treatments. Our dynamic groups bring all of the learning together!
Recognition
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Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy Exemplary Integrated Pain Management Program
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Texas FQHC develops integrative model to help patients with pain
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Dr. Kohli presents at a Congressional Briefing on best practices for pain management
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Access to Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management for People in the Safety Net
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2020 American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting and Expo
Resources
- ACHI Integrative Practice Webinar Series: Centering Relational Health
- Example of guided meditation from a People’s-affiliated yoga therapist
- U.S. DHHS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-agency Task Force Report
- American Medical Association Pain Care Task Force Report
- California Health Care Foundation White Paper on Pain Care in the Safety Net