A New Prognosis for Pain Care

Innovative ways to measure, understand and treat pain are allowing doctors to ease patients’ suffering—without relying on dangerous drugs.

 In Rural Areas Without Pain Or Addiction Specialists, Family Doctors Fill In The Gaps

In many ways, rural communities like Necedah have become the face of the nation's opioid epidemic. Drug overdose deaths are more common by population size in rural areas than in urban ones. And rural doctors prescribe opioids more often by far, despite a nationwide decline in prescribing rates since 2012. Meanwhile, rural Americans have fewer alternatives to treat their very real pain, and they disproportionately lack access to effective addiction medication such as buprenorphine.

How To Find Pain Management Doctors Near You

Finding pain management doctors near you can be an exhausting task. From recommendations from friends to reviews online, there are so many options for finding one. But, once you’ve found a few you like, how can you narrow down the results to find the one that best suits you?

Centers of Excellence in Pain Management: Past, Present, and Future Trends

Pain management administered with an interdisciplinary approach has proven to offer the most effective and best opportunity to manage chronic pain.

Finding Good Pain Treatment Is Hard. If You’re Not White, It’s Even Harder

While an epidemic of prescription opioid abuse has swept across the United States, African-Americans and Hispanics have been affected at much lower rates than whites.

How America's Best Pain Doctor - John Sarno - Took On The Medical Establishment and Won

The story of how Dr. John Sarno, a ground-breaking medical pioneer whose revolutionary approach to treating pain succeeded in helping thousands, overcoming formidable opposition from the medical establishment is both inspirational and all-too-familiar.

How Long Have You Been Fighting The Chronic Pain System?

Chronic pain patients are held captive and abandoned by this broken medical system. The message we hear is that doctors are too afraid to worry about our suffering. How can a doctor effectively treat patients when he’s waiting for the state licensing board to come knocking, saying he’s being investigated for overprescribing?

How Pain Clinics Fail Patients

That’s the thing about pain management clinics. They do not cure. Most of the time they do not even have the power to manage. They try to dull the pain, to numb it, just long enough to get you out of their office. The problem is that pain is subjective.

My Story: Pain Clinics are Money Mills

I had a doctor friend tell me that when she was in medical school the loser students chose the field of pain. It was seen as a money-making arena, rarely successful for its patients. Ambitious doctors chose other fields, where they could actually be effective.

Pain Specialist: Many Doctors Underprescribe For Chronic Pain

He believes many chronic pain patients are actually undertreated for legitimate, life-altering pain, and that their experiences are being left out of the current conversation about opioids.

Your mind can be trained to control chronic pain. But it will cost you

There used to be hundreds of integrated pain management centers all across the country. But in the ’90s, the insurance market shifted; more patients joined managed care plans that limited them to a narrow network of doctors.