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| We believe that pain is treated best with integrated medicine. Integrated medicine means that your mind and body are working together, and restoring your maximum comfort and function requires that your body, nervous system and mind work together as well as possible. Pain is a tough opponent! Just like sports psychologists assist elite athletes and their coaches to improve results in competition, a psychologist, who specializes in pain medicine, helps you and your physicians improve the effectiveness of your treatment(s). Improved treatment allows you to feel better physically, suffer less emotionally, and increase your performance. Even if your pain fails to diminish after the best possible treatment, a pain physiologist will be able to assist in developing strategies to cope with your pain. |
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The Integrative Pain Center of Arizona is a consultation service for you and your doctor, not primary medical care. Your physician is an important member of your treatment team and best equipped to determine if you are potentially a successful candidate for treatment at the Pain Center.
Your primary care doctor's knowledge of your condition helps us direct our resources and helps insure that you benefit from our care. Pain is integrated into many injuries and medical conditions. we rely on your physician to determine if you might benefit from intensive and potentially invasive pain care.
While you may return to the Center from time to time for follow-ups, to refill an intrathecal pump, to be directed in guided imagery or repeat nerve blocks, the physicians here at the Pain Center are treating you for your pain. Your primary care doctor will continue to direct your overall medical care.
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Many work related injuries, and their associated disability, are effectively treated by the Integrative Pain Center of Arizona. The first step involves a thorough evaluation. Pain Center physician's can assume the responsibility as a workman compensation provider if your work related injury can benefit from our services. Medical issues may exist from your work related injuries which are outside the Pain Center physician's ordinary scope of practice. This will require referrals to other specialists. The Pain Center will work in conjunction with your other doctors for any medical issues that are unrelated to your injury.
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The Pain Center physician(s) serve as consultants, but not as primary providers. Your Primary
Care Physician will be asked to complete the request. We will provide your PCP with our notes to assist them. |
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Pain Center physicians are here to provide care and treatment for a patient’s pain. Patients may go through the Department of Economic Security (DES), ProActive or Lunda & Associates for Independent Medical Examination's (I.M.E.'s)
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| When a patient requests an estimate of future care costs, it is currently done on an as needed basis. If you need an estimate please call us at (520) 797-7246 [797-"PAIN"]. |
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| Please check with you own insurance company to see if I.P.C.A. services are covered. |
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| There is a foundation made up of interested parties at the Pain Center. If you are interested in this volunteer groupplease contact us at (520) 797-7246 [797-"PAIN"]. |
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| No. The Pain Center physicians consult on your pain problem. It is very important to maintain your relationship with you primary care physician. Most of the time recommendations are made to your primary care physician (PCP) for treatment regimes. |
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| ©2002-2003, Integrative Pain Center of Arizona |
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