Minnesota
Physicians Neck & Back Clinic is Brian Nelson, MD’s brainchild, with a base in Minneapolis and numerous satellite clinics. Dr. Nelson put down his scalpel when he realized he wasn’t getting good results from spine surgery and substituted a rigorous, multi-week, spine-focused exercise program.
To learn more about PNBC's Core Spinal Fitness Program - this is a gym you can join to maintain the gains from their rehab program - click here.
Texas
PRIDE Dallas was one of the first functional restoration facilities in the United States. Run by Thomas Mayer, MD, and his wife, Holly, it combines an excellent physical rehabilitation program with superb psychological support, making it a top choice for people who really want to get back to work.
Each year, the American Pain Society gives a Clinical Center of Excellence in Pain Management Award to five or so pain management facilities around the country. Here you’ll find the index, all the way back to 2007. Not all of them offer multidisciplinary chronic pain programs—some are tiny, community-based programs—but it is a good place to start. Be sure to click on the detailed descriptions of each year’s winners.
Have a look at the website of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing. PROP’s mission is to: “reduce opioid-related morbidity and mortality by promoting cautious and responsible prescribing practices.”
Believe me, you’re going to get an eyeful.
Illinois
Entropy Physiotherapy and Wellness specializes in treating complex conditions and restoring hope. If you're being limited by pain, incontinence, or 'old age', we are the right clinic for you.
Pennsylvania
Cognitive behavior therapy focuses on helping clients solve current problems and get better as quickly as possible. The Beck Institute strives to foster highly supportive, compassionate, and collaborative relationships with clients and to tailor treatment to their particular difficulties and preferences. Clients learn specific techniques to change their unhelpful thinking, behavior, and emotional responses — skills they can use for the rest of their life to overcome their current difficulties and to stay better.
Adelaide, Australia
The International Spine Centre experts understand how debilitating, lonely and hopeless a back condition can make you feel.
It’s why they've created a truly unique, collaborative inter-disciplinary treatment centre to deliver hope of a life beyond pain.
So far they've helped thousands of sufferers, from 90 year olds to Olympic athletes, with incredible results – and it’s their hope that you are their next success story.
Kansas
Sports medicine and pain management expert, Sean Wheeler, MD, is a board-certified physician with College Park Family Care Center in Overland Park, Kansas. He is also author of UPRISE: Back Pain Liberation, by Tuning Your Body Guitar.
http://collegeparkfamilycare.com/physicians/profile/Sean-M-Wheeler-MD
For pain relief without pills, read Beth Darnall’s 2014 book, Less Pain, Fewer Pills.
Watch the lectures from Stanford’s Back Pain Education Day 2015, especially Rafael Pelayo, MD on The Connection Between Sleep and Back Pain and Jiang Ti Kong, MD on Acupuncture for Back Pain.
Watch all nine videos below:
California
Check out Dr. Darnall’s website to learn more about her pain management practice and read her articles.
Listen to this interview with Dr. Mel Pohl about pain and avoiding addiction.
The Recovering Body: Physical and Spiritual Fitness for Living Clean and Sober by Jennifer Matesa
Read more about the book here
East Midlands, United Kingdom
If the location makes sense for you, consider the RealHealth Institute, located in the East Midlands of the UK, with locations soon to come in London. The institute offers non-surgical treatment options, with an intensive treatment program for the treatment of persistent pain as well as a functional restoration program geared toward recovery from a more specific injury.
