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Impact The Palm Beaches from page 10 One Meeting, One Vote.” It is designed for women who The Town of Palm Beach United Way is the fiscal agent
want to find an efficient and collaborative means of creating of Impact the Palm Beaches.
in 2015, Impact the Palm transformational change in their community. Women can For more information about Impact the Palm Beaches and
Beaches has granted almost become as involved as they wish in the process. how to become a member, visit ImpactPalmBeaches.org.
$2 million to local nonprofit
organizations that are making
transformational changes in
our community.
To learn more about the
Impact the Palm Beaches
grant recipients, visit
ImpactPalmBeaches.org.
Impact members contribute
$1,100 annually, which Hollani Davis, WPTV 5 event
includes a $100 administrative emcee
fee, and each member’s $1,000
donation is pooled together
to fund multiple $100,000 Linda Ladove, Jill Wachter, Karen Kirk, Nancy Maio, Karen Tessie Watts, Rosa White, Yolanda Bates, Desiree Reavis,
grants. The full amount of Brams, Sydney Brams Katrina Blackmon
membership is tax-deductible.
After this awards celebration,
Impact the Palm Beaches
will have given away nearly
$2 million in transformative
grants to nonprofits in our
community. Impact grants
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areas: arts and culture, Taylor Materio
education, environment and
animal welfare, health and wellness, and family.
Impact 100 is a worldwide organization with more than 60
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SPOTLIGHT ON HEALTH CARE

Chronic pain sufferers find welcomed

relief through pain management.

By Valerie Staggs
When Dr. Nathaniel Drourr started his and depression specifically is exceed-
career as a pain management physician 26 ingly common in people with chronic
years ago, the specialty was a new concept pain,” says Drourr. He encourages pa-
in the medical field. While the idea of a tients to be advocates for themselves. “You
physician solely dedicated to helping treat have every right to ask your doctor for
patients with chronic pain might have another opinion. If you’re not happy with
seemed unusual back then, today physi- where you are, ask for a referral or make an
cians like Drourr are bringing welcomed appointment yourself.”
relief to patients who have often given up
hope that they will ever be pain-free.

“Usually by the time patients get to us
they have tried a fair amount of things,”
says Drourr, who has been practicing at
Jupiter Medical Center for his entire ca-
reer. “Many have been to surgeons, they
have tried physical therapy, they’ve “Patients come to us for a whole list of rea- way to treat many different conditions
sometimes done pretty significant pain sons. The most common is back pain and is through multiple different avenues,”
medication. We’re that next step after a leg pain or sciatica type pain, but patients says Drourr. “However, we always like to
lot of the common treatments fail.” can also have neck or arm pain, shingles start with non-invasive therapies first.”
type pain or pain related to cancer.” Non-invasive therapies can include hot/
Chronic pain is defined as pain that no cold therapy, anti-inflammatory medica-
longer serves a useful purpose. Drourr uses Pain management physicians see new pa- tions, physical therapy, massage therapy,
the analogy of burning your hand to ex- tients at an initial consultation where they chiropractic care and TENS unit, a mild
plain. “If you stick your hand near a flame are asked in-depth questions about their electrical nerve stimulation technique. If
and it burns, you pull your hand away for pain. Typical questions touch on where non-invasive treatments alone do not stem
good reason. Once that burn heals and the the pain is located, what makes it better the pain, pain medication therapies and
initial pain goes away, any pain you have or worse and what treatments the patient injection therapies may be added to the
past that normal time is chronic pain.” has already tried. A physical examination treatment plan. Surgery and spinal cord
is also conducted. The goal in the initial stimulators can also be a consideration for Nathaniel Drourr, MD.
Patients are often referred to a pain man- consultation is to develop a treatment some conditions.
agement physician by a primary care doc- plan to address each patient’s specific type
tor or another physician such as a surgeon of pain. Left untreated, chronic pain can cause a For more information about pain
or orthopedic specialist. Some, like Dro- host of other health problems. “Psycho- management treatment, visit:
urr, also accept self-referrals from patients A wide range of options are explored in logically, how they feel about them- jupitermed.com/services/
directly. developing each treatment plan. “The best selves, how they interact with others, pain-management
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