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Features| December 2020 Life Beyond Pain: Transforming Pain Management Through Integrative Practices Jerry P. Kalangara, MD; Jerry P. Kalangara, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Sudheer Potru, DO; Sudheer Potru, DO Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Anna Woodbury, MD, CAc Anna Woodbury, MD, CAc Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor December 2020, Vol. 84, 35–36. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000724072.11183.f4 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Jerry P. Kalangara, Sudheer Potru, Anna Woodbury; Life Beyond Pain: Transforming Pain Management Through Integrative Practices. ASA Monitor 2020; 84:35–36 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000724072.11183.f4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Pain management has been undergoing a gradual but progressive transformation to encompass more integrative practices within its discipline. The theoretical basis for these interventions stem from the biopsychosocial pain model that implicates not just physical but also social and psychological impairments in the pathogenesis of chronic pain. Integrative health emphasizes the patient-provider relationship as a team and utilizes lifestyle changes and all available therapies and health care modalities to optimize health (asamonitor.pub/371erOF). These practices have been particularly impactful in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System (VA), where there is a high prevalence of chronic pain combined with psychosocial stressors, which makes the veteran population particularly amenable to this multidisciplinary approach. The VA currently offers multiple evidence-based Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) options within the framework of the Whole Health System (WH) in order to address chronic pain... © 2020 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), All Rights Reserved.2020 You do not currently have access to this content.
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