Full Citations

Lifekind Health Provider Brochure

  1. Mailis, A., Deshpande, A. & Lakha, S.F. Long term outcomes of chronic pain patients attending a publicly funded community-based interdisciplinary pain program in the Greater Toronto area: results of a practice-based audit. J Patient Rep Outcomes 6, 44 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-022-00452-z
  2. Townsend et al. (2008). "A longitudinal study of the efficacy of a comprehensive pain rehabilitation program with opioid withdrawal." Pain, 140(1):172–182. (Mayo Clinic)
  3. Lindsey M. Dorflinger, Christopher Ruser, John Sellinger, Ellen L. Edens, Robert D. Kerns, William C. Becker, Integrating Interdisciplinary Pain Management into Primary Care: Development and Implementation of a Novel Clinical Program, Pain Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2014, Pages 2046–2054, https://doi.org/10.1111/pme.12554
  4. Davin et al. (2025). "Health care utilization patterns of patients enrolled in an interdisciplinary program for back pain." North American Spine Society Journal (NASSJ), 21:100584. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666548425000046

Please note, the 77% figure of patients self-reporting improvement from the first study was measured on program exit.