Balancing Evidence-based Medicine and Personalized Medicine The Community Pain Center (CPC) encourages individuals with pain to be well informed about their condition, available treatment options, and resources for optimal care. Two terms important to [...]
If You Feel it, the Pain is Real Pain is a perception produced in the brain. This perception is often associated with some bodily damage, but it does not have to be. Usually there is [...]
There is Power in Numbers Historically, pain has been studied in relationship to specific diseases (e.g., osteoarthritis, cancer, HIV, etc.), bodily regions (e.g., head pain, back pain, shoulder pain), or in relationship to medical procedures [...]
21st-Century Healthcare Revolution A technology-driven healthcare revolution has been shifting control from the hands of institutions and physicians back into the hands of the patients for the past 40 years. This revolution appears to partially [...]
What Makes the CPC Unique? Thirty years of scientific research, the collection of thousands of patients’ perspectives, plus new technological tools, result in increased access to medical care, improved health outcomes and reduced costs for [...]
The National Pain Strategy: A Vision (Excerpt from the 2015 draft National Pain Strategy) If the objectives of the National Pain Strategy are achieved, the nation would see a decrease in prevalence across the continuum [...]
Interventional Pain Medicine: Retreat from the Biopsychosocial Model of Pain By Randy S. Roth, PhD; Michael E. Geisser, PhD; and David A. Williams, PhD (Published online in Translational Behavioral Medicine on November 16, 2011) INTRODUCTION: [...]
How the CPC Can Help Meet the Objectives of the National Pain Strategy Poised to meet the objectives of the 2015 draft of the National Pain Strategy (NPS) developed by the National Institutes of Health, [...]
How Digital Technology Can Personalize Health Care By Ralph Snyderman, MD (Excerpt of Huffington Post article published on February 15, 2013) A major flaw in health care today is that it's focused on treatment of [...]
National Pain Strategy PAINS Collaborators Meeting Recap By Barby Ingle, Power of Pain Foundation President On June 29 and 30, 2015, the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy (PAINS), a group of over [...]