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.
Research Spotlight Duke Study Validates the Anecdotal Barriers to Whole Person, Evidence Based, Multimodal Pain Care Innovation, leadership, and community-based collaboration are integral when building integrated, integrative pain care available for all people. This...
AACIPM is Asking For Feedback on a Possible Research-Related Advocacy Goal The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) has named 2023 the Global Year for Integrative Pain Care. The goal of IASP’s Global Year advocacy campaign is to, each year, focus on...
Advancing Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management What Matters to You? AACIPM's 2022 Highlights AACIPM connects multi-stakeholders with a shared interest in modifying policy and payment design to improve access to whole person pain care. Click on a topic to learn...
Recently, AACIPM Director Amy Goldstein sat down with David Nagel, MD, to catch up on all the exciting work in his world. Dr. Nagel, who is dual-board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine, is thrilled to see the recently-released Pain...
Connecting the Dots to Advance Access to Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management (CIPM) Pediatric Pain: Promoting Access to Whole Person, Multimodal Pain Management for Children and Adolescents Evidence-Based Tools for Providers, Care Options for Patients and...
After much anticipation, Optum Labs is releasing exciting new research related to the vast disparities in pain care that exist across geographically dissimilar zip codes in the United States: Geographic variation in the treatment of spinal disorders:...
In an exciting turn of events, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) have released a draft of the Physician Fee Schedule for 2023 for public comment—and it is clear that the collective efforts of AACIPM and its member organizations on the 2022 PFS have...
Over the last few months, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has been accepting public comments as it seeks to define a set of key Determinants for Whole Person Health. NCCIH is aiming to identify a set of just twenty factors that...
AACIPM has partnered with AOTA to help the vast array of multidisciplinary pain management practitioners to better understand the function of occupational therapy, when it may be appropriate for patients, and how it works synergistically with other therapies. AACIPM...
After serving on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors for 12 years, Dr. Christine Goertz, D.C., Ph.D., will be leaving the Board at the end of September 2022. Given that the needs of the PCORI Board of Governors significantly...
An example of integrative pain care from American Medical Association AACIPM thanks one of our many collaborators, International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), who introduced us to Inner Atlas, a unique method of facilitating whole person, multimodal pain care...
After an illustrious 42-year career, including 240 publications and unparalleled advocacy in pain management, Charles (Chad) G. Helmick III, MD (CAPT, USPHS, RET) is officially retiring from CDC on December 31. It is with bittersweet hearts that we at AACIPM announce...
Following up on last month’s announcement that the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) is taking active steps toward the creation of a new specialty in Pain Management Pharmacy, AACIPM reached out to Cara M. Brock, PharmD, CPE, and President of the Society of Pain and...
Both ‘exemplary’ pain programs focus on improving access to care in medically underserved communities and integrating with primary care The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and Duke Orthopaedic Surgery are announcing the release of two exciting new studies on...
AccendoWave is an exciting new system that uses machine learning technology to objectively measure and manage pain without relying on the current standard of subjective pain data. Harnessing active comfort management technology through use of a tablet computer, EEG...
Dr. John Maye is a Professor and Pain Management Concentration Director for the University of South Florida, College of Nursing. He retired from the United States Navy in 2015 at the rank of Captain after serving for 27 years. A Navy Certified Registered Nurse...
AACIPM recently had a conversation with Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, and Jeffrey Geller, MD. We spoke to them about the new Integrated Center for Group Medical Visits, group medical visits for persons living with chronic pain, how group visits can address inequities in...
Duke Presents the First of Four Case Studies on Integrated Pain Management AACIPM is pleased to share that Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy and Duke Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine have released the first of four case studies emanating from their 2020-21...
The AACIPM team thought it would be interesting to ask Bob Twillman, PhD, FACLP, Pain Management Psychologist, Saint Luke's Health System, some follow up questions about how telehealth has evolved one year after his last post on the topic. Through the questions, we...
an interview with Kate Nicholson, President & Founder, NPAC What is the National Pain Advocacy Center? The National Pain Advocacy Center (NPAC) is new nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the health and human rights of people with pain. It is an...