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The Chronic Pain Medicine Program in the Department of Psychiatry offers comprehensive evaluation, treatment planning, and care for patients with chronic, disabling pain that requires intensive rehabilitation. Our interdisciplinary team, led by physicians with multiple boards in Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, develop individual treatment plans for each patient.
Our pain experts specialize in pain that is not getting better despite previous treatment, pain that is complicated by other medical, neurological or psychiatric disease, and they address pain medicine addiction and/or fear of addiction with the goal of restoring health, function and quality of life.
Department of Psychiatry pain experts also utilize the latest technology in pain procedures, including the SonoSite, a new state of the art ultrasound device that allows for accuracy in placing solutions which increases efficacy. It also shows the actual spread of the solution making sure it reaches the affected area, and allows you to avoid injecting solutions into areas and structures that could potentially be harmful.
A wide variety of procedures are available when indicated including epidurals, caudals, sacroiliac joint injections, Piriformis injections, triggerpoints, intraarticular joint injections, soft tissue injections, occipital nerve and other peripheral nerve blocks.
Chronic pain affects all aspects of a person's life. Psychiatry is the discipline that cares for the whole person, not just a single organ system. Our goal is to help patients restore function, engage in productive activities, and improve their quality of life. If we can delineate all the conditions responsible for chronic pain, regardless of whether they are psychiatric, medical, neurological, or surgical, then we can better assess treatment options.
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, is a large multi-faceted program centered in a major academic medical center. The Department of Psychiatry focuses on the three central missions of clinical care, research and education to govern its department of psychiatry divisions. Nationally recognized for ground-breaking research projects in Autism, Brain Stimulation (ECT, TMS, DBS) , Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Department of Psychiatry provides state-of-the-art research, inpatient and outpatient evaluation & treatment locations in Gainesville, Central Florida and Indian River County. The Department has over 60 full-time Faculty researchers and treatment experts . The University of Florida College of Medicine is proud to offer evidenced-based treatment programs for Impaired Health Professionals, depression, children and adolescents, eating disorders, obesity, pain, alcoholism, bipolar illness, geriatric psychiatry, drug abuse, Schizophrenia , and other psychiatric and psychological problems. Keep up with the latest community and psychiatry news with our Addiction & Psychiatry Newsletter. Find UF a psychiatrist or psychologist or forensic expert or Faculty of the University of Florida’s College of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.