Pain medicine specializes in identifying pain sources and restoring function.
These results are achieved when professional care providers work in a team with the patient, family, and primary family physician and focus on realistic goals.
The Pain Program's clinics are staffed with professionals dedicated to alleviating pain and helping patients live active and rewarding lives.
The Pain Program uses the most efficient and effective current practices from many disciplines to treat the patient as a whole.
The following vision, mission, values, and goals guide the Pain Program in our treatment of all types of pain.
An Island-wide program that provides evidence based, interdisciplinary services to those living with pain, in order to help patients live to their optimum potential.
As an emerging new service, to become fully integrated within Island Health and become a pain management resource for physicians, staff and patients.
The Pain Program’s interdisciplinary team consists of clerical staff, anesthesiologists, a psychiatrist, an otolaryngology pain physician, pharmacists, nurses, occupational and physical therapists, and social workers.
With medical professionals from many disciplines, the Pain Program strives to provide holistic pain management to its patients.
The Clinical Centre teams consist of:
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