Published by Hea!thcare Innovation

A group of national healthcare organizations has established the Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (AACIPM), a multi-stakeholder collaborative to promote comprehensive integrative pain management for the over 50 million Americans living with inadequately treated pain.

The organization noted that many challenges to assessing, diagnosing, and managing pain. Many barriers currently exist between people living with pain and evidence-based, comprehensive treatment options such as physical therapy, acupuncture, cognitive behavioral therapy, nerve block injections, massage therapy, or chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation, and innovation in pain treatment techniques such as neuromodulation and regenerative medicine.