Pain Recovery: Mind and Motion Program

The Pain Recovery: Mind and Motion program offers three weeks of specialized treatment, Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with four months of individualized aftercare services.

The program incorporates self-management classes, aquatic and land exercises, and medical management – including the gradual reduction of medications – to help you learn to maintain a flexible and light-duty schedule while enhancing your overall function.

The goals of the program are:

• reducing your chronic pain through engaging in health behavior changes over time
• increasing your ability to cope with chronic pain
• tapering the use of narcotic pain medications
• returning to work in some capacity

Your care team will include specialists in pain management, a registered nurse, a variety of integrative medicine specialists, a pain psychologist, a physical therapist, a pharmacist, a fitness specialist, and a vocational services specialist.

The team will support you at every step of your journey, helping you develop and work toward your personalized goals.

A referral is needed to participate in the Pain Recovery: Mind and Motion program. The referral will be screened and evaluated by one of our clinical specialists to determine eligibility.

Candidates should have:

• Ongoing chronic pain for at least six months
• Pain that interferes with physical, vocational and/or psychosocial functioning
• Motivation to self-manage pain, including a desire to minimize and/or discontinue the use of opioid-type medications

Previous program participants have reported:

• reduced interference from chronic pain by guided adoption of healthy behaviors
• enhanced coping skills to manage persistent pain
• reduced reliance on medications
• return to work, volunteer activities, or vocational training to regain a sense of purpose and normalcy.

One year after discharge, participants also experienced a(n):

• 76% reduction in the number of hospitalizations related to pain
• 53% reduction in emergency room visits related to pain
• 83% reduction in the number of medications taken for pain management
• 65% reduction in the number of visits to an outpatient clinic related to pain management
• 50% of unemployed patients return to work, return to job search, or return to school (four months following discharge).