For many years I’ve been proposing collaboration not competition through the use of a multidisciplinary team approach when working with people living with chronic pain and coexisting disorders including addiction. I believe it is imperative for pain management physicians to work hand-in-hand with other healthcare disciplines in order to provide the best treatment outcomes for this population.

I also believe that we need to work with the whole person, which means treatment plans for the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual domains.  This can best be accomplished by using a truly integrated multidisciplinary treatment team with the patient being the Captain of the team.  We need to work with patients—not on them.

That is why one of my research postings this month discusses a research article from the Journal of the American Medical Association that validates my belief that you can read by Clicking Here and scrolling down to that posting. 

To learn more about my views on collaboration for effective chronic pain management and coexisting disorders including addiction please check out my article Collaboration NOT Competition for Effective Chronic Pain Management that you can download for free on our Ariticles page.

If you would like to be skill trained in a collaborative model we have two Addiction-Free Pain Management® Certification Trainings scheduled this Spring—one in Sacramento California on May 18-19 that we are sponsoring and the one at Valley Forge Medical Center and Hospital on June 10-12. It’s not to late for people to sign up and in fact by mentioning this Blog I will make sure you get a $20 discount for either training. To get this discount you must call Ellen at (916) 575-9961 and ask her for the discount. For other upcoming trainings you can check out our Calendar page.

You can learn more about the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System at our website www.addiction-free.com. If you are working with people udergoing chronic pain management and want to learn how to develop a plan for managing their chronic pain and coexisting psychological disorders including addiction effectively please go to our Publications page and check out my book the Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders: Using the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System. To purchase this book please Click Here.

To listen to a radio interview I did conducted by Mary Woods for her program One Hour at a Time please Click Here to go to this interview.

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