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Portiand/Observer
Thursday, December 13, 1973
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In 1959. Ken Watson in
jured his back in a shipyard
accident. After 14 years of
debilitating pain and three
back operations, he came to
Emanuel Hospital's pain cen
ter.
"I used to take 200 or 300
pain pills a month," says
Watson. “Now I take none.
Dr. Seres taught me how to
live with the pain.
“It's the exercises they
teach you. How they teach
you to walk. It's the whole
program. I wish I'd known
about it before my last two
operations.”
Portland neurosurgeon Dr.
Joel Seres and staff opened
the pain center at Emanuel
Hospital in January of 1973
with 13 beds. It is located in
the new residential setting of
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Pain center patient Louis Brown learns how to push with
his hips and avoid strain on injured bark from occupational
therapist Mary Ann Eagon.
Patients learn to mask
their pain in two ways: one
simple, the other space age.
“First, we keep the patient
busy, in street clothes, out of
bed all day. with a multitude
of activities," says Dr. Seres.
“Then we give some of our
patients small electric stimu
lators the size of a portable
transistor radio. The electric
charges from the stimulator
mask the patient's chronic
pain.”
The first several days of
a patient's stay at the pain
center are spent in patient
evaluation, design of therapy,
and then patient commitment
to the therapy.
P o stu r e and e x e r c is e
classes, along with workouts
in the large swimming tank
at the Extended Care Facil
ity, bring new flexibility to
the patient's movements.
A unique aspect of the
pain center program is the
w eekly staff conference.
Here each patient is eval
uated by the entire staff at
the center: physicians, psy
chologists. nurses, therapists,
and even the chaplain.
"The frequent group and
individual counseling sessions
with the patient and his
family are also terribly im
portant,” says Dr. Seres.
"People with chronic pain are
discouraged and disappointed
with themselves, and often
depressed."
Drs. Seres, McKinnon and
Newman have had varying
degrees of success with their
patients.
“Most of our patients have
not worked for three or four
years," says McKinnon. “In
fact, a third of them have not
worked in five years."
With almost all patients,
there has been a decrease or
cessation in dependence on
drugs to relieve pain.
“Plus a significant propor
tlon of them have become
more active, spend less time
resting and more time walk
¡ng," says McKinnon. "Some
patients have come here in
wheelchairs and walked out
unaided."
Relief from depression is
another indication of success.
"D epression contributes
measurably to immobiliza
lion. We alleviate depres
sion by counseling and,
if necessary, by chemical
means." says McKinnon.
"Then the patient can better
participate in his own physi
cal rehabilitation.
"P a tie n ts lik e K e n W a tso n
have been able to d e v e lo p a
b e tte r m e n ta l p ic tu re o f th e ir
w o rth and th e ir fu tu re . T h is
is a re a l m easure o f success
fo r th e th e ra p y .
"There's been a return to
employment for those who
were em ployed recen tly ”
says McKinnon. “We've even
had patients go back to work
who'd been unemployed for
several years."
The longer a man has been
unemployed, following the
onset of his pain, the less
likely he can be completely
rehabilitated.
"Our goal is to get people
earlier," says Dr. Seres, "and
to get support from the
general population insurance
carriers so this program will
be accessible to a larger
percentage of the popula
tion."
Currently only industrial
accident insurance rovers the
entire pain center program.
Emanuel Hospital is ne
gotiating with other major
Portland insurance companies
to have the pain renter
covered by their policies.
"Many insurance companies
will pay for the repeated
surgeries that characterize
this type of patient." says
Dr. Seres. "But some seem
less willing to pay for this
type of therapy."
The Emanuel Hospital pain
center is one of about 15 in
the United States.
The
other West Coast centers are
at the V.A. hospital in San
Diego and a small center in
Seattle.
“Very few of the pain cen
ters in the rest of the
country have the staffing
that we do at Emanuel," says
Dr. Seres.
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th e h o sp ita l's E x te n d e d Care
Facility.
Other staff members are
rehabilitation specialist Dr.
Alan Russakov. psychologists
Daniel McKinnon and Richard
Newman, and head nurse
Colleen Gleason and staff
nurse Yvonne Royer.
A total of 150 sufferers of
chronic pain have undergone
the two to three week treat
ment at the center. There is
a waiting list for admission
and expansion to 20 beds is
contemplated for January of
1974.
Watson's success at the
pain center will save his in
surance company the cost of
his former medication and
possible additional surgery.
Success for Watson means
increased m obility and a
better life for him and his
family every day.
“It’s made a lot of dif
ference for me -- even in
my temperament," says Wat
son. “I used to walk with a
limp. Now I don't. I can
bend over and pick up things.
It was the last resort for me
and it worked.”
"It seems that the success
rate is directly proportional
to m otivation." says Dr.
Seres.
“Ken Watson suc
ceeded because he had a goal
in mind. He wants to get
back to work."
What is chronic pain?
"Chronic pain is pain oi
long duration for which there
appears to be no good way of
treating the primary cause."
says Dr. Seres. "In other
words, drugs and surgery
have not worked."
Dr. Daniel McKinnon, staff
psychologist, notes that of
the 49 patients who have
come to the center with back
problems, each had had an
average of almost three back
operations.
"They come to us because
there's no place else to go.
They're often depressed and
anxious and don’t see a way
out," says McKinnon.
The pain center approach
is two'pronged:
relief of
pain and masking of pain.
Thereapy is as non-drug as
possible. Mild exercises re
lieve some pain.
“For example, we know
that stiff joints are painful
joints," says Dr. Seres. "So
we prescribe mild exercises
to loosen the joints."
Instruction in body me
chanics, standing, sittin g,
walking properly, and es
pecially lifting properly, help
a patient engage in activities
he thought impossible.
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