AACIPM Promotes Deeper Understanding During Pain & Self Care Awareness Month In honor of Pain and Self Care Awareness Month, AACIPM spent the month of September collaborating with our partners to spread awareness and deepen connections and understanding regarding...
Resources
AACIPM website includes a repository of resources that support the mission to advance access to equitable, whole person, multimodal, guideline-concordant integrative pain management.
More resources and publications will be coming soon. If you have suggestions about relevant resources that should be included, please contact Amy Goldstein.
AACIPM is Promoting Pain and Self Care Awareness Month in September
AACIPM is Promoting Pain and Self Care Awareness Month in September Health Care Includes Self Care™ To promote both Pain Awareness Month and Self Care Awareness Month, AACIPM will be collaborating with many partners to spread awareness and deepen connections and...
Patient Online Survey Opportunity on Cannabinoids
Researchers from the University of Rochester and Harvard Medical School are conducting a survey to help better understand how people living with chronic pain feel about using cannabinoids, including marijuana and CBD, to treat their pain. They also want to learn how...
How Pain Education Helped Me Go from My Wheelchair to Win a Medal in Less than a Year
In my November 2020 spotlight, “Patient Resources: Not Just for “Newbies,” I shared a bit of my 18+ year journey with chronic pain and my recent, miraculous improvement--along with my goal to walk a 5K. As AACIPM’s web developer, I have had the opportunity to learn...
Spotlight Patricia Herman, RAND: Four Papers Focus on Patient Use of Provider-Based Nonpharmacological Care for Chronic Spinal Pain
We asked AACIPM Advisory Committee member, Patricia Herman, ND, PhD, Senior Behavioral Specialist, RAND Corporation, why this series was created. "Our hope was to provide some real-world information to payers regarding how patients use ongoing provider-based care for...
Integrating Behavioral Health Care into Pain Treatment Plans Improves Patient Outcomes
Executive Summary of AACIPM’s November 2020 Symposium Taking a close look at how behavioral health can be effectively utilized as part of a comprehensive approach to pain management, nearly 150 health care providers, people with pain, health insurers, and large...
Spotlight: Carolyn Noel, Webmaster, AACIPM
Patient Resources: Not Just for “Newbies” On April 23, 2002, my life completely changed – in an instant. Prior to that date, I was a Marine who ran six miles a day and didn’t know the meaning of the word “can’t”. My military service did leave me with some chronic pain...
The Connector – Patient Engagement Engagement Spotlight: Angel & Kalind Perry
Finding comprehensive integrative pain management (CIPM) is as elusive as the prince finding his real princess who could feel the pea under the twenty mattresses! We are so grateful for the opportunity to share our lived experiences with the many stakeholders who...
Press Release: Patients, Providers, and Payors Unite to Advocate for Comprehensive Pain Treatment Policies
[Washington, DC] – A group of leading national health care organizations have established the Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (AACIPM), a first-of-its-kind multi-stakeholder collaborative to promote comprehensive integrative pain...