When unresolved, they burden our health care system. The prevalence of chronic pain disorders and the fact that they are so disabling highlight the need for an economical and effective treatment in the Buffalo region. The CPTS combines state of the art medical treatments, behavioral skills training, and lifestyle change procedures to optimize patient's responsibility for their own treatment, pain control, and phy sical function.
Treatment is goal-focused, time limited, and tailored to individual patient needs.
For patients whose physical deterioration contributes to pain, the CPTS offers a coordinated physical therapy treatment to improve their physical conditioning. We rely on tight collaboration to meet the needs and reach the goals of the patient, employer, the referring source, and various third parties. When patients receive medical treatment, we work closely with the patient's physician and current medical ther apies, not as an alternative to them. The CPTS's exclusive focus on pain treatment means that the personal physician retains primary responsibility for medical care throughout the course of the treatment. The CPTS's medical, nursing, psychology, and rehabilitation staff are specialists formally trained in the treatment of painful medical disorders.