Celebrating over 25 years in the Charlotte, North Carolina, medical community, The Rehab Center combines the skills of a multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals trained to provide comprehensive rehabilitation services to patients who have experienced debilitating occupational injuries.
The Rehab Center is committed to the promotion of the basic human rights, dignity, health, and safety of all the patients we serve. Patients are provided services equally without regard to race, color, creed, gender, age or physical status.
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Our program for patients with chronic
pain, mild brain injury, or other conditions that impair function. Based on a biopsychosocial
model, our highly structured, interdisciplinary 20-day curriculum combines the resources of physical
therapy, medicine, psychology,
vocational, nursing, and nutrition to
assist individuals toward the restoration
of function and productivity.
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Our Summer 2013 Newsletter just came out, reviewing some fascinating work done with neuroimaging studies on what happens in the brain of people with chronic pain. It turns out that the brain is an amazingly adaptive organ-- it can show some deterioration at times with chronic pain but it is also capable of healing and normalizing function with the right activities. Among these are the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), the psychological basis of our approach. People using CBT techniques and skills can apparently recuperate normal brain function even when it has worsened over the course of prolonged pain. We will be following this fascinating line of research and reporting on it here.
Our Spring 2013 Newsletter is out as well, discussing the concept of interdisciplinary pain treatment, explaining how it is the most comprehensive and successful approach for patients sufering with chronic pain,, and reviewingthe data on its efficacy and cost-effectiveness. The various components that make up this integrated approach are discussed in this newsletter.
Previous newsletters are also archived here (click on the Continue Reading link below to access these). These address issues including recent developments in the controversy regarding the use
of long-term opioids with chronic pain. We also addressed the concept of nocebo (negative placebo) and the damaging effect that the wrong words can have on a person's recovery from illness or injury. This highlights the importance of accurate information, especially regarding chronic pain, and a positive outlook.
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Fall 2010
Fall Newsletter 2010
Winter 2006
APS Bulletin Volume 16, Number 1, Winter 2006
Executive Summary of the APS Task Force on Comprehensive Pain Rehabilitation Report
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