Chronic Pain Self-Management Program is an educational, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a small group program that helps patients better understand the chronic pain process and teaches non-medicated coping strategies.

Change your pain with food and nutrition.

Clinical studies and medical practice have increasingly focused on the role of body inflammation as a precursor and maintainer of chronic conditions.  As there are dietary factors that impact inflammation, it is important to know how food and nutrition patterns can reduce inflammation. There have been ways of eating that cultures around the world have shown to be healthy by a lower incidence of lifestyle diseases and longer life spans.

1:1 virtual consultation service is available to assist patients optimize their nutritional health to improve pain management. This is offered on a fee-for-service basis and reimbursable by many health plans. 

Please note appointments are booked in Mountain Standard Time which is a two-hour time difference for Ontario.

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An epidural steroid injection (ESI) is the delivery of powerful anti-inflammatory medicine directly into the space outside of the sac of fluid around your spinal cord. This area is called the epidural space.

Fluoroscopy is a type of medical imaging that shows a continuous X-ray image on a monitor, much like an X-ray movie. During a fluoroscopy procedure, an X-ray beam is passed through the body

Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS) is a dry needling technique that is a special form of acupuncture used in the treatment of myofascial and neuropathic pain.

i.v. lidocaine demonstrates significant analgesic, anti-hyperalgesic, and anti-inflammatory properties. It also reduces sensitivity and activity of spinal cord neurones (central sensitization) and decreases N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor-mediated post-synaptic depolarization.This infusion helps to treat many conditions including Fibromyalgia, Chronic regional pain syndrome, neuropathic pain, chronic diabetic neuropathy and vascular headaches

Often a group of nerves, called a plexus or ganglion, that causes pain to a specific organ or body region can be blocked with the injection of medication into a specific area of the body. The injection of this nerve-numbing substance is called a nerve block.

Opioid analgesics are typically prescribed for severe cases of acute pain, and for instances of chronic pain. Muscle relaxants are prescribed to reduce spasms and cramping of the muscles.

Prolotherapy is a procedure where a natural irritant is injected into the soft tissue of an injured joint. The irritant kick-starts the body’s healing response. Prolotherapy is not a surgical treatment. Because of this, it is also known as a regenerative joint injection or non-surgical ligament and tendon reconstruction.

A Trigeminal Nerve block involves the injection of local anesthetic medication and sometimes steroids into the area surrounding the Trigeminal nerve. This blocks the pain messages thereby reducing the amount of pain felt.

TPI is a procedure used to treat painful areas of muscle that contain trigger points, or knots of muscle that form when muscles do not relax. Many times, such knots can be felt under the skin. Trigger points may irritate the nerves around them and cause referred pain, or pain that is felt in another part of the body.

Viscosupplementation is a procedure in which a thick fluid called hyaluronate is injected into the knee joint.it is thought that hyaluronate will improve the lubricating properties of the synovial fluid, reduce the pain from osteoarthritis of the knee, improve mobility, and provide a higher and more comfortable level of activity.