Central Indiana

          

                  PO Box 257

                                           Monrovia, IN 46157

 

 

Program Description:

 

Date of Program: May 21, 2008

 

Time:  3:00 p.m.

 

Place: St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 86th & Meridian,

Indianapolis, IN, Room E 107/109

 

Speaker Name: Jim Ryser, MA, LMHC, CADAC II, Clarian Health Partners, Methodist  

                 Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program & Nurse Support Group Coordinator

 

Topic: Chronic Pain and Chemical Dependency

 

The definition, by the US Food and Drug Administration, of acute pain after surgery or trauma comes on suddenly and lasts for a limited time, whereas chronic pain persists.  “Acute pain is a direct response to disease or injury to tissue, and presumably it will subside when you treat the disease or injury," says Sharon Hertz, M.D., deputy director in the Food and Drug Administration's Division of Anti-Inflammatory, Analgesic, and Ophthalmologic Drug Products.  "Chronic pain goes on and on—for months or even years."

Common types of chronic pain include back pain, headaches, arthritis, cancer pain, and neuropathic pain, which results from injury to nerves.  Regardless of the type of chronic pain, the physical and emotional effects can be devastating.

Jim will discuss alternative methods of pain management without dependency on opioids.  He will describe the bio-psycho-spiritual aspects of pain and techniques to cope with these diverse characteristics. 

 

Jim manages a Chronic Pain Management Program that combines services to patients in a multi-formatted, team-managed group setting which is JCAHO accredited.  The program has 4 years’ of researched success among those in pain and addictive disorders 12 step format.  He also manages the Recovering Nurse Support Program for recovering nurses.

 

Since 2002 with Clarian Health Partners, Methodist Hospital
Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program & Nurse Support Group Coordinator

Within this position Jim works in coordination and management of the Chronic

Pain Management Program, which includes individual, couples, and family counseling,

group therapy, education lectures, and supervision of both the day and evening

programs.  Consultant liaison for complex pain cases on all Clarian campuses

(Methodist, IU, Riley, CW, CN) and runs the ISNAP approved recovering nurse’s

support program at Methodist. 

 

Starting in 1981 to present: Jim has been a Self-employed Singer/Songwriter

Jimmy Ryser, Rysersongs, Inc., Columbus, Indiana.  Music continues as a valuable

element of my counseling skills.  He is also records as a Violinist, Vocalist, and Guitarist

with John Mellencamp, Indianapolis, Indiana