Comprehensive Pain Program

Our pain program offers evidence based skills, strategies, and interventions proven to help people decrease pain and increase life satisfaction. Sometimes, a pain condition is caused by an injury that happened on the job. Other pain conditions develop due to a long term illness or condition with a slow onset. We have extensive experience treating complex pain conditions, and see people between 9am-4pm, Monday through Friday, for up to 30 hours a week, providing interdisciplinary treatment all in one place. We are client centered, and take your needs and preferences into account when planning your treatment schedule. Everyone gets an hour each day for a lunch break. We see people experiencing low back pain, CRPS/RSD, migraine headaches, cluster headaches, arthritis, pelvic pain, extremity pain, fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos, and long COVID Symptoms, as well as other pain challenges. We work with people between the ages of 16 and 95.

For people who were injured on the job, having a structured intensive multidisciplinary pain program (SIMP) allows people to learn the skills necessary to rebuild endurance, increase strength, and decrease pain. Your program will mimic the hours and tasks that you were expected to do at work, and will provide 30 hours a week of therapeutic interventions. An average length of stay is 4-5 weeks if you are able to attend full time. After attending a full time program, it is common for our clients to enter a phase of our program that is part time, and gives them an opportunity to practice the strategies they learned for managing their pain at home or on the job, while still receiving the support of our clinical staff as they fully reintegrate into these roles.

All of our clients need a referral from their attending physician or primary physician. When referred by your doctor, PRA will check your insurance benefits. We accept most major insurances including Workers Comp, Commercial insurances, Medicare and Medicaid. Your Admissions Coordinator will obtain authorization and contact you for a full day evaluation. Your evaluation day is the start of your treatment, and is usually from 9am – 4pm. A member from each discipline on your team will meet with you to better understand the challenges you are facing due to your pain, to create a customized treatment plan that includes your goals for our treatment, and will talk to you about their specialty within our interdisciplinary treatment team. This usually includes evaluations with Physician, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Psychology. The team then meets to plan your treatment, and you will participate in a follow up call or zoom conference with your admissions coordinator to learn your recommendations and start to plan for your treatment.