IAS announces world's first comprehensive 'Adhesions-CAPPS Clinic'
From: Dr. David Wiseman (david.wiseman@adhesions.org)
Mon Jun 4 22:38:23 2007
The IAS is proud to announce its role in the opening of the world's
first center for the integrated diagnosis and treatment of Adhesion
Related Disorder (ARD) at Florida Hospital, Celebration Health,
Celebration, FL. The founders of this clinic include our long time
friend, Dr. Jay Redan, and the IAS’ very own, Dr. David Wiseman.
Although we have dreamed about this clinic since the beginning of the
IAS in 1996, the idea began to take root about four years ago when Dr.
Redan invited Dr. Wiseman to make a presentation to Celebration
Hospital’s management about establishing a center for Adhesion Related
Disorder.
Dr. Wiseman recounts:
“As a result of the research done through the IAS web site we realized
that the problems of the ARD patient extend well beyond those of
adhesions. An ARD patient will have some or all of a number of issues
including chronic pelvic and abdominal pain, bowel and bladder
disturbances as well as spiritual and psychological imbalances.
There was no one place for long-suffering ARD patients to turn that
could tackle these issues in a coordinated manner. Dr. Redan arranged
for me to present a proposal to Celebration’s management that would
change all of that. What impressed me was the forward-thinking way that
Celebration Health conducted every aspect of the patient experience,
from the location to the décor of the radiology department to the scent
wafting through the air conditioning system. This hospital’s approach
may be close to Walt Disney World, but it was no ‘Mickey Mouse’ Since
that initial presentation, I have been working closely with Drs. Redan,
McCarus and a whole project team that has brought us to this launch.”
But there was a problem in the way the world thinks about this
condition. As a result of Dr. Wiseman’s work it became apparent that
adhesions and ARD are part of a wider set of overlapping and coalescing
conditions including endometriosis, pelvic pain, Interstitial Cystitis
(IC), Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and even fibromyalgia.
It was just not good enough to think just about adhesions, or just about
chronic abdominal pain, or even bowel or bladder problems. We needed to
think about it all. Together. And so was born the term "COMPLEX
ABDOMINAL AND PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME (CAPPS)" defined as:
"a syndrome, of non-malignant origin consisting of a complex of symptoms
of the abdomen or pelvis that includes pain, bowel or bladder
dysfunction, of at least 6 months duration.”
Attempting to treat these individual symptoms or conditions as separate
entities for the most part is an exercise in frustration. Although they
may start out as separate conditions, they end up as essentially one
condition - CAPPS.
Now we understand the disease we can get to work to prevent it and to
treat it using the multi-disciplinary, integrated and holistic approach
that the CAPPS Center is all about.
The Florida Hospital Center for CAPPS (http://www.adhesionscenter.com/)
consists of: Dr. Jay Redan (General, laparoscopic surgeon), Dr. Steve
McCarus (Gynecologic Surgeon), Dr. Kathy Jones (Urogynecologist), Dr.
David Wiseman (Consultant, Scientific Advisor) backed by a team that
will ultimately include care coordinators, specialist nurses, physical
therapists, nutritionists, psychologists, social workers, exercise
physiologists, psycho-spiritual counselors, pain management specialists
and neurologists.
As a separate endeavor, the IAS will establish a sister organization,
the
International Society for Complex Abdomino-Pelvic & Pain Syndrome
(ISCAPPS, http://www.iscapps.org)
Please visit the new CAPPS center at: http://www.adhesionscenter.com
--
David Wiseman
Founder, IAS
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