Working Together to Get Back To Work

ECU Health Medical Pain Management Center
Workers Compensation Program
252-847-0617

Our newly designed worker’s compensation program has been developed to ensure outcome-focused, coordinated, goal-oriented interdisciplinary team services with the sole purpose of measuring and improving the functioning of our patients. A team of experts offer a variety of modalities including medical pain management, physical therapy, psychotherapy, monitored conditioning programs and patient education.

Our Team

• Board Certified Pain Physicians
• Registered nurses experienced in pain management
• Physical therapists and physical therapy assistants
• Psychologists specializing in pain management

Program Goals

• Restore occupational role function
• Reduce pain
• Reduce medication intake
• Reduce psychiatric and psychological impairment related to injury
• Correct posture, gait and motion abnormalities that can aggravate and worsen the patient’s condition
• Educate patients in the roles that emotions, behavior, and attitudes play in chronic pain and recovery from injuries
• Improve activities of daily living
• Improve level of function in social, familial and household roles
• Improve strength and functional status
• Educate patients in prevention of re-injury

Admission Criteria

• Adequate and thorough evaluation
• Unsuccessful previous methods of treating chronic pain
• Patient has significant loss of ability to function independently resulting from chronic pain
• Patient is not a candidate for surgery
• Patient exhibits motivation to change, as determined during initial evaluation with questionnaires
• Patient’s Primary care physician to manage the patient after maximum medical management has been reached, per the Pain Center Physician.