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There are so many great resources on mindbody medicine, many of which are the products of physicians. We hope that you read, watch, and educate yourself using these resources.
After you've done so, and when you are ready to eliminate physical pain from your life, please come back to Curable any time and allow us to help you along your journey.
No. The pain of a migraine is excruciating, and it results from real physical changes that are taking place in the body. Migraines are never your fault.
However, the physical changes that take place in your body during a migraine are reversible. The mindbody approach to migraines focuses on teaching you how to reverse these painful changes quickly, and prevent them from recurring.
Everyone’s experience of pain is unique. Most people experience physical reactions to strong emotions and stress levels at some point - whether it’s through migraines, back pain, or beyond.
Your pain may be more constant, persistent, or inconvenient than most people’s - but that does not mean that you are broken or damaged. The part of your brain that controls the experience of pain may be more sensitive than most, and there is nothing wrong with that. The mindbody approach helps you to calm that part of the brain faster, turning the volume down on your pain.
Yes. Our understanding of how the body processes pain has evolved over the centuries. Here is a (very brief) overview:
After centuries of increasing awareness about what causes pain, we now know that emotions and past experiences play an enormous role. This is especially true for chronic pain.
Mindbody medicine provides a way to address these emotional factors that the brain uses to create pain. In this way, chronic pain can be reduced or outright eliminated.
For centuries, the practice of health care has followed in the tradition of “dualism.” That is, the mind and the body are seen as separate and distinct entities. And the treatment of mind and body are separated into the fields of psychiatry and medicine, respectively.
Health care providers in the field of medicine are trained to treat the body. They search for a cure by looking in the physical area where the symptoms are located. If the head hurts, then something must be physically wrong with the head. If the back hurts, then something must be wrong with the back. So we take scans, undergo operations, and consume medicine that try to alter the physical area where pain is located.
Over the years, this approach of isolating the physical body as something separate from the whole person has led to extraordinary medical breakthroughs in the areas of cancer, infectious disease, heart disease and more. People are living longer fuller lives as a result.
But some conditions do not fit neatly into “body only” or “mind only.” Ongoing pain is one of these conditions.
It therefore comes as no surprise that - in a survey spanning 12 academic centers - only 34% of primary care physicians reported feeling comfortable treating people with chronic pain. They are simply not trained to treat conditions that bridge across both mind and body.
So, if your doctor hasn’t told you about this type of treatment, then it’s not their fault. It is a product of how our health care professionals are trained. Fortunately, a growing number of doctors and medical institutions are adopting mindbody principles, and we believe that this trend will continue.
The seminal report on chronic pain, “Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research,” states the following:
"The mindbody perspective is now generally accepted and has been found useful by clinicians in various disciplines.”
Across America we are seeing a growth in the number of integrative medicine clinics - especially at the country’s top medical institutions. In addition, there are many well-known physicians who believe in treating both the mind and the physical body of patients with certain conditions.
All of us - medical providers and laypeople alike - are continuing to gain a better understanding of the interplay between the mind and the body.
We at Curable are confident that the trend of treating the mind and the body together for certain conditions will only grow in its reach and acceptance.
Our #1 goal at Curable is to ensure that - of the 30+ million Americans suffering from migraines - as many of them as possible get exposure to the mindbody approach. Whether people commit to getting better is their decision. But we can at least try our best to let people know that this cure is out there.
Curable has strong connections to many practitioners of Mindbody therapy. In fact, our founders and family members were guided through Mindbody therapy programs by some of the best out there.
If you are interested in an introduction to any of the following practitioners, please let us know! Or feel free to reach out to them directly.
David Schechter, MD
10811 Washington Blvd., Suite 250
Culver City, CA 90232
(310) 836- 2225
www.mindbodymedicine.com
Will Baum
437 S. Robertson Blvd., Suite B
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
www.willbaum.com
(323) 610-0112
Arnold Bloch
West Los Angeles, Westlake Village
(805) 796-9540
Samantha Bothast
Encino
(818) 456-6421
Michelle Gottlieb, Psy.D., MFT
305 N. Harbor Blvd., Suite 202
Fullerton, CA 92831
714-879-5868 x5
www.michellegottlieb.com
Jennifer Huggins
West Los Angeles
(424) 255-5535
Kathryn Lubow
West Hollywood
(323) 332-9852
Inessa Manevich
Santa Monica
(310) 804-6339
Julie Markowitz
2103 S El Camino Real Suite 206
Oceanside, CA 92054
(347) 443-8695
Email: juliemarkowitztherapy@gmail.com
Website: https://juliemarkowitztherapy.com
Andrew Miller
West Hollywood, Westwood
(310) 776-5102
Jessica Oifer
Marina Del Rey
(424) 384-3772
Pain Psychology Center
1247 7th St., Suite 300
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 945-6811
Nancy Sokolow, LCSW
530 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 310
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 393-2020
Clark Grove
Marin, San Francisco
(415) 923-6760
Hasanna Fletcher
Santa Cruz
(831) 476-8556
115 Ryan Industrial Ct. #208
San Ramon, CA 94583
(925) 552-6363
Evana Henri, PhD
Clinical/Health Psychologist
2101 Ken Pratt Blvd. Suite 200
Longmont, CO 80501
720-771-9248
evanahenri@accessyoureverest.com
www.accessyoureverest.com
Leslie Reis, LCSW
75 Kings Highway Cutoff
Fairfield, CT 06824
(203) 333-1133
Dario M Zagar, MD
Associated Neurologists of Southern Connecticut
75 Kings Highway Cutoff
Fairfield, CT 06824
(203) 333-1133
www.anscneuro.com
Nicole Sachs, LCSW
Lewes, Delaware 19958
www.thecureforchronicpain.com
Andrea Leonard-Segal, MD
George Washington University Center for Integrative Medicine
Suite 200
908 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 833-5055
Scott Brady, MD
The Brady Institute for Health
P.O. Box 2982
Windermere, FL 34786
(407) 876-1888
John Stracks, MD
Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group
Center for Integrative Medicine and Wellness
1100 E. Huron Street
Suite 1100
Chicago, IL 60611
312-926-DOCS (3627)
Meg Eginton, MFA, RSME-T
Eginton Alignment Somatic Movement Therapy and Education
Virtue Medicine Studio and Clinics
221 East College Street, Suite 212, Iowa City, IA 52240
Phone: 319-338-5190
Fax: 319-354-3718
www.VirtueMedicine.com
Cathy Linde, LCSW, LSCSW, SEP
Cura Integrative
7000 W 121st St, Ste 100
Leawood, KS 66209
www.curaintegrative.com/somatic-psychotherapy
Barbara A. Kline, LCSW-C
Prospect Cottage
113 S. Prospect St.
Hagerstown, MD 21740
prospectcottagetherapies.com
301-745-1900
Eugenio Martinez, MD
The Spine Center- New England Baptist Hospital Bone and Joint Institute
125 Parker Hill Avenue
Boston, MA 02120
emartine@caregroup.harvard.edu
(617) 754-5246
Ronald D. Siegel, Psy.D.
20 Long Meadow Road
Lincoln, MA 01773
www.backsense.org
(781) 259-3434
Jay E. Rosenfeld, MD
311 Service Road
East Sandwich, MA 02537
jrosenfeld@adelphia.net
(508) 833-4000
Douglas R. Johnson, MD
363 Highland Ave.
Fall River, MA 02720
(508) 679-7156
Alexander Angelov, MD
(781) 598-4321
Howard Schubiner, MD
Providence Hospital
Department of Internal Medicine
16001 W. Nine Mile Rd.
Southfield, MI 48075
(248) 849-4728
www.unlearnyourpain.com
Doug Hoffman, MD
SMDC Sports Medicine and Orthopedics
400 E. Third St.
Duluth, MN 55805
(218) 786-3520
Marc Sopher, MD
27 Hampton Road
Exeter, NH 03833
mdsophermd@comcast.net
(603) 772-5684
(603) 772-5256 fax
David H. Kim, MD
704 East Main St
Suite A
Moorestown, NJ 08057
www.PainManagementSolutionsInc.com
(856) 608-1130
Paul Gwozdz, MD
Board Certified in Family Practice
710 Easton Avenue, Suite 1A
Somerset, NJ 08873
www.GwozdzMD.com
(732) 545-4100
Robert Paul Evans, Ph.D.
163 Engle Street
Englewood, New Jersey, 07631
201-569-3328
Stanley Malkin, PhD
1814 E.Second St.
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
908-663-2099
Anna Holtzman, MHC-LP, CPC
Mental Health Counselor and Life Coach
26 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11242
(646) 439-0432
Anna@AnnaHoltzman.com
AnnaHoltzman.com
Ira Rashbaum, MD
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine
400 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
(212) 263-6328
Dan Ratner, PsyD
Psychologist, PsyD, MA
67 Irving Place
6th Floor
New York, NY 10003
(347) 669-5006
www.CrushingDoubt.org
Laurel Steinberg, Ph.D.
Psychotherapist and Professor of Psychology at Columbia University
225 East 47th Street, Suite 1B
New York, NY 10017
(917) 574-0825
DrLaurelSteinberg@gmail.com
www.LaurelSteinberg.com
Roy Stern, MD
Dermatologist
800A Fifth Avenue
Suite 403
New York, NY 10021
(212) 421-SKIN (7546)
Frances Sommer Anderson, Ph.D.
140 East 40th Street #12A
New York, NY 10016
212-661-7588
Eric Sherman, Ph.D.
19 West 34th Street, Suite PH-13
New York, NY 10001
212-947-7111 x227
Melanie Nevis
Personal Coaching
New York and Boston areas
917-204-5762
www.gisc.org
mn268@nyu.edu
Dr. Patricia Coughlin
48 Columbia Street #2
Albany, NY 12207
518-859-3960
www.patriciacoughlin.com
Frank J. Padrone, PhD, ABPP
Psychology
1025 Northern Blvd.
Roslyn, NY 11576
516-627-0942
FPADRONEPHD@AOL.COM
Mary Wells, LCSW
541. 213. 9833
WellnessPainCare.com
Randy A. Cohen, D.O.
Pain Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialists
160 North Pointe Blvd
Suite 115
Lancaster, PA 17601
rcohen@painstoppers.org
(717) 560-4480
(717) 560-4485 Fax
Jim Moran, LISW-CP
Keystone Counseling and Consulting
156 Milestone Way, Suite B
Greenville, SC 29615
(864) 297-5377
jmoran@keystonecounseling.com
Alicia B. Batson, MD
Center for the Treatment of Psychophysiologic Disorders
2021 Richard Jones Road, 340B
Nashville, TN 37215
(615) 788-3557
aliciabatsonmd.com
Matthew McClanahan, DO
Center for Integrative Medicine
320 E. Main Street, Suite 200
Chattanooga, TN 37408
(423) 643-2246
Jonna Lee Barta, PhD
101 W McDermott
Suite 109
Allen, TX 75013
jonna.barta@sbcglobal.net
(972) 727-7378
John Sklar, MD
Board Certified in Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine
2500 West Freeway
Suite 400
Fort Worth, TX 76102
(817) 870-1868
MaryAnn Schaffer, PhD
One Killeen Center
Executive Suite 108-7
Killeen, TX 76541
schaffer@clearwire.net
(254) 718-2952
Maureen McGrath, PT, DPT
Physical Therapist
University of Utah Pain Management Center
615 Arapeen Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84108
(801) 581-7246
maureen.mcgrath@hsc.utah.edu
Mark G Strom, MD
Integrative Health
Medical Acupuncture
1370 Stewart St, Suite 202
Seattle, WA 98109
(425) 922-7576
www.integrativehealthmd.com
mark@integrativehealthmd.com
David Hanscom, MD
Spine Specialists at Swedish Hospital Neuroscience Institute
550 17th Ave. James Tower, 5th Floor
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 320-2800
www.backincontrol.com
Joel Konikow, MD
Swedish Pain Services - First Hill
600 Broadway Suite 530
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 386-2013
Andrea Leonard-Segal, M.D., F.A.C.R.
Integrative Health
Rheumatology
908 New Hampshire Ave., NW Suite #200
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 833-5055
http://www.gwcim.com
Louise Levy
Clinical Hypnotherapist at Cognitive Behavioural Hypno-Psychotherapist
Lily House Consulting Rooms
London E18 1BD
www.louiselevy.co.uk