Complicated Pain Recovery™

Hi. This is Jerry Lerner, developer of the Complicated Pain RecoveryTM treatment model. I’ve been working on this since the early 1990s and putting it into practice in a variety of outpatient and inpatient settings. Complicated Pain Recovery is based on the concept that there are four major categories of complicating factors which interfere with the normal healing and recovery of individuals experiencing painful conditions. If any one of the four categories is not addressed, the individual will remain stuck. Just like a combination lock, all four tumblers have to be in the correct position in order for the painful condition to unlock. This unlocking typically results in decreased levels of pain, improved coping with unavoidable pain, and a sense of the individual being able to return to living their life again in a fulfilling and meaningful way.

My mission at this point is to share this conceptual model and its practical applications with mental health and medical professionals of all sorts who are involved with caring for and helping individuals in pain. Unfortunately pain management is being held hostage by a business model which overemphasizes invasive procedures and overuse of opiate medications. This can only change if there are adequate numbers of professionals who are trained and prepared to provide a holistic, integrative approach to resolving chronic pain.

Please contact me at LernerMD@ComplicatedPain.com if you would like to participate in upcoming workshops, become certified as a Complicated Pain Recovery Coach, or have your facility or clinic trained to provide a certified Complicated Pain Recovery program.

Jerry Lerner, MD

The presence of pain is often a major contributory factor in the development and persistence of substance abuse and addiction, and always complicates any effort toward recovery. Pain can result in co-occurring mood disorders as well as be an expression of depression, anxiety and trauma.

The presence of persistent pain with it’s accompanying impairment and dysfunction has been labeled “chronic pain syndrome” in conventional medical and psychological jargon, and the accompanying “chronic pain management” treatment approach has done little to alleviate suffering or address the risk of substance abuse and addiction.

Now following a quarter century of trans-disciplinary studies in pain, physical rehabilitation, addiction recovery, psychology, trauma and wellness coaching comes Complicated Pain RecoveryTM. Developed by Jerome A Lerner, MD, former medical director for the Center for Integrative Pain and Rehab, Performance Enhancement Pain Management & Rehabilitation Clinic, and prior chief of pain medicine and medical director at internationally renown Sierra Tucson hospital and residential facility, Complicated Pain RecoveryTM is the revolutionary new model of care designed to resolve the entanglement of physical, psychological, biochemical, and attitudinal factors which inhibit the natural potential for healing and well being,

Dr. Lerner coined the term “complicated pain” in the early 1990s after observing that there were certain common patterns of complicating and perpetuating factors in those people suffering with pain who did not respond to good and appropriate treatment. Dr. Lerner embarked on a multi-decade exploration of these complicating factors, how they interplayed off each other, and how to unlock this pattern so that individuals could restore their resilience and progress toward natural healing and recovery.