Information for Professionals

This part of the website is designed for professionals who are interested in learning more about Care Center’s programs and emphasis of treatment.

Comprehensive Program Information

The program will:

• Re-evaluate diagnosis and review medical records to consider necessity of additional diagnostic studies or invasive procedures to specify diagnosis.
  
  
• Improve pain control with physical therapy and modalities for:
  • Greater Endurance
  • Increased Strength
  • Better function at home (ADLs – activities of daily living)
  • Improved flexibility
  • Proper body mechanics and postural awareness
  • Limitations and restrictions
  • Reduce patient fear of re-injury with structured graduated exercise programs.
  
  
• Promote pain-control modalities other than drugs.
  
  
• Improve psychological functioning:
  • Define and address psychosocial issues affecting chronic pain syndrome.
  • Resolve drug dependency.
  • Treat depression and insomnia.
  • Determine and address secondary gain from pain.
  • Improve family dynamics reinforcing pain behaviors.
  • Strengthen family and community support systems.
  • Reduce anxiety that causes muscle tension which in turn causes pain to spread. Cognitive restructuring is used to change negative cognitions that limit function and increase suffering.
  
  
• Vocational needs
  • Address functional capacity and residual impairment.
  • Liaison with vocational rehabilitation counselors to increase endurance for re-training.
  
  
• Communicate with the referring physician to establish a mechanism for continued management of patients.
  
  
• Reduce inappropriate use of healthcare system.

  Duration of Treatment:

  Each patient’s program is designed for their specific functional rehabilitation. Preliminary ratings of the severity and likely impact of functional and prognostic factors determine the level of treatment. Evaluation of the patient and development of the treatment plan is extremely complex. Program duration varies between four and six weeks of structured treatment sessions of appropriate modalities for each patient. Some types of disorders will take longer.

  Follow Up:

  Assessments are made intermittently with regards to recovery progress. Reports are generated within 10 days of evaluation and sent to Primary Treating Physicians, Case Managers, Carriers, and Attorneys.