Celebrating over 25 years in the Charlotte medical community, The Rehab Center combines the skills of a multi-disciplinary 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 Spring 2013 Newsletter is now out, 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 discussedin this newsletter. Our Spring Special Edition newsletter reviews an important new paper by Drs. Loeser and Cahana, pioneers in chronic pain treatment, on this approach.
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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