Integrated Pain Management Education
The Present Experience of People Living with High Impact Chronic Pain
The Anodunos Method
Revolutionizing healthcare for high impact chronic pain
The Anodunos Vision, Mission and Method
A world without pain...wouldn’t that be nice?!
We’ll settle for a world in which patients work with a collaborative team of practitioners coordinated by a pain navigator to provide a personalized, comprehensive, and truly integrated care plan resulting in significantly improved outcomes.
Our goal is to improve the experience and treatment of homebound and often bedridden clients, reduce their pain and improve their overall quality of life. Using the latest evidenced-based research into brain science, pain management and the biopsychosocial model, we created two professional trainings. These trainings act as a blueprint for creating community based teams of pain navigators working and collaborating with a group of providers, coming from both complementary and traditional disciplines.
This idea was reinforced by the 2019 Health and Human Services (HHS) Task Force Report on Pain recommended combined services, collaboration between the providers, and flexibility when picking the team. Different stages in the journey through pain may require a reassessment of inputs.
With documented research supporting the efficacy of the approach, we created courses that will allow providers, healthcare systems, private industry and others to implement such programs and duplicate results.
We’ll settle for a world in which patients work with a collaborative team of practitioners coordinated by a pain navigator to provide a personalized, comprehensive, and truly integrated care plan resulting in significantly improved outcomes.
Our goal is to improve the experience and treatment of homebound and often bedridden clients, reduce their pain and improve their overall quality of life. Using the latest evidenced-based research into brain science, pain management and the biopsychosocial model, we created two professional trainings. These trainings act as a blueprint for creating community based teams of pain navigators working and collaborating with a group of providers, coming from both complementary and traditional disciplines.
This idea was reinforced by the 2019 Health and Human Services (HHS) Task Force Report on Pain recommended combined services, collaboration between the providers, and flexibility when picking the team. Different stages in the journey through pain may require a reassessment of inputs.
With documented research supporting the efficacy of the approach, we created courses that will allow providers, healthcare systems, private industry and others to implement such programs and duplicate results.
The Navigator and Practitioner Roles
The Anodunos Method Navigator (AMN) is trained to assess a client’s needs and assemble the team of providers who best meet each client’s unique needs. AMNs are drawn from fields related to healthcare, case management, direct patient care and education. Often navigators have been living with pain themselves or have cared for family members experiencing chronic pain or long-term disabilities.
The Anodunos Method Providers (AMPs) bring their clinical expertise and build on it with the AMP training to understand the value of other healing approaches and transdisciplinary collaboration for improved client outcomes and quality of life.
The Anodunos Method Providers (AMPs) bring their clinical expertise and build on it with the AMP training to understand the value of other healing approaches and transdisciplinary collaboration for improved client outcomes and quality of life.
Advocacy
Recognizing that the cost of care and awareness of alternative healing options are common barriers to access, Anodunos is working with pain advocacy agencies and local and state legislatures to bring about changes to how such services are compensated. Most notably, Massachusetts passed legislation requiring insurance companies to cover integrative services for pain management. Building on that success, we are working toward insurance coverage in New York State for multiple integrated approaches to reducing pain. One bill passed in 2023 requires doctors to recommend integrative services and other non-pharmacological approaches. The second bill mandating insurance reimbursement for integrative services, already written and approved by the NYS central committee, is ready for passage in early 2025. Similar bills have also been proposed in New Hampshire.
Our advocacy will continue toward a state funded pain navigator profession, as exemplified by the California Bridge Program, Medicare and Affordable Healthcare Act Navigators.
Ultimately the work of Anodunos’ advocacy is also to expand awareness of the approach and educate public and private entities on the value of this community-based program.
Our advocacy will continue toward a state funded pain navigator profession, as exemplified by the California Bridge Program, Medicare and Affordable Healthcare Act Navigators.
Ultimately the work of Anodunos’ advocacy is also to expand awareness of the approach and educate public and private entities on the value of this community-based program.
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