San Francisco Functional Restoration Program
SFFRP
60 Years of Combined Medical Experience

San Francisco Functional Restoration Program
SFFRP
is a partner of the respected
Bay Area Pain & Wellness Center in Los Gatos, Ca.

The San Francisco Multi-Specialty Medical Group (SFMMG) provides Full Spectrum care for injured workers who are in the Workers’ Compensation system. Our physicians and staff members represent a number of specialties, allowing us to provide the right care for every injured worker.

SFMMG physicians characterize our practice as Full Spectrum because of the many care options available, which include problem-solving, effective functional restoration evaluation and treatment using state of the art California MTUS (Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule) and ACOEM Guideline evidenced-based-medicine treatment.

These approaches help injured individuals manage their chronic pain and return to an active, functional and satisfying life while assisting the employer or in­surance company by providing cost-effective quality medical care.

Treatment Approach
Our treatment approach is called Functional Resto­ration and is an affiliate of the Bay Area Pain & Wellness Center in Los Gatos, CA. Our intensive process begins with a quality patient evaluation. We then help select the right treatments and medications for that patient, as well as provide extensive education, counseling, and safe physical reconditioning consisting of both exer­cise and functional activities. Our goal is to change the patient’s thinking, perception, and physical response to pain. Each person receives an individu­alized care plan or “tool kit” of methods to manage chronic pain and return to a productive lifestyle.

San Francisco Functional Restoration Programs SFFRP
Our programs begin with a quality, multidisciplinary patient evaluation. We then design the right treatments for each patient that include extensive education, counseling, and safe physical reconditioning consisting of both exer­cise and functional activities. Our goal is to change the patient’s thinking, perception, and physical response to pain. We do not offer a set time frame for the program. It truly is patient specific. We do offer mutually agreed upon goals and outcomes. Over the past 11 years of following patients in the FRP treatment approach, we have discovered patients reach permanent and stationary after four to eight weeks of program participation.

SFFRP consists of group-oriented education and individualized “tool kits”. By combining physical reha­bilitation, medication optimization and psycho-educational groups, patients can gain control, avoid pas­sive treatments and return to regular life activities; including work. The program also includes voca­tional counseling, medical follow up, and education in nutrition and wellness.

Medication Detoxification and Optimization Program
The Opioid Detox Program, located at our Los Gatos affiliate, combines state of the art integrated interdisciplinary pain management services with a medically supervised program to detoxify patients who are dependent on opioid (narcotic) or other medications and are motivated to come off of them.

Bay Area Pain & Wellness Center BAPWC (www.scpwc.com)
Our affiliate, BAPWC, defines excellence in pain management by offering the most comprehensive approach to pain treatments in the area. Located in Los Gatos, California, this inte­gration of services and disciplines with some of the Bay Area’s leading providers has created one of the most highly respected and sought after pain management centers on the West Coast.
With them, we offer a full complement of pain therapies, from highly specialized interventional treatments to the most sophisticated interdisciplinary pathways and programs. BAPWC has a long history of tackling the most complex and challenging pain problems in our society.
You can be confident that SFFRP and BAPWC will provide the very best that pain management has to offer in the twenty-first century. SFFRP and BAPWC have disseminated its expertise in pain management by increasing its sphere of influence through geographic expansion and education through publications, lectures, and teaching.
BAPWC is also affiliated with the Southern California Pain & Wellness Center (www.scpwc.com), located in San Diego, California.

Our Medical Staff
Nicole Chitnis, MD, San Francisco, CA
Joel Renbaum, MD, San Francisco, CA
Peter Abaci, MD, Los Gatos, CA
John Massey, MD, Los Gatos, CA
Joel Mata, MD, San Diego, CA

Making A Referral DOCTORS COMMITTED TO YOUR WELL-BEING.
To make a referral, for more information,
or to schedule an appointment,
call us (415) 409-0740
or email us.
One Daniel Bumham Court, Suite 365C
San Francisco, CA 94109

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