ew Outlook Medical Associates
Every patient at New Outlook is treated on case by case basis.
Our staff is committed to making your visit, smooth and painless.
Each patients pain is unique to them, and so is the treatment.
At New Outlook Medical, we know the impact pain has on your day to day life, we are here to help!
Our goal is to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to chronic pain management for medically necessary patients whose lives have been negatively impacted by their condition. We do not seek to eliminate pain, but to regain or maintain/improve function and allow our patients to continue living a life full of quality despite living with daily chronic pain.
A recent draft report by the National Institute of Health
authored in September 2014 stated: “At the root of the problem is the
inadequate knowledge about the best approaches to treat various types of pain,
balancing the effectiveness with the potential for harm, as well as a
dysfunctional health care delivery system that encourages clinicians to
prescribe the easiest rather than the best approach for addressing pain.”[i] Dr. Aballay desires to help patients in
chronic pain, based upon this desire and the knowledge as a front line
clinician in the battle against chronic pain conditions he recognized that a
“New Outlook” would be the only way to better the lifestyle of his
patients. With his ideals and a desire
to use a multifaceted approach to treating chronic pain conditions, he decided
to take this large scale problem into his own hands by founding New Outlook
Medical Associates. At New Outlook
Medical Associates, Dr. Aballay has developed a medical practice with the goal of
combating the issue of chronic pain, taking the time to educate patients and
the community, and provide more options and facets of treatment to make the
pain management of his patients more effective.
Dr. Aballay has embraced the phrase, “What works for one patient does
not work for the next.” New Outlook
Medical Associates, through Dr. Aballay meets with every patient, developing a
treatment protocol based upon their individual diagnosis, and
re-evaluates the treatment protocol with the goal of increasing each patient’s ability
to return to their daily lifestyle and regain functionality. For every patient, community member,
referring physician, they will find that New Outlook Medical Associates is a
place where people can climb from the plateaus of adversity to reach the peak
of their goals and dreams and find a new outlook on life.
[i] National Institute of
Health. Pathways to Prevention Workshop: The role of opioids in the treatment
of chronic pain: draft executive summary. September 29-30, 2014.
https://prevention.nih.gov/docs/programs/p2p/ODPPainPanelStatementDraft_10-02-14.pdf.
Accessed November 13, 2014.
We conduct random pill counts and urine drug screen testing on all our patients to ensure safe medication adherence to protect our patients and the community. We ensure women of child-bearing age are pregnancy tested before any treatment is begun. We ensure they are on proper contraception and educate regarding the risk of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. We abide by guidelines put forward by the Board of Health in the Tennessee Chronic Pain Management Guidelines and all other state and federal guidelines. Our goal is to provide safe, and responsible pain management to ensure our patients receive appropriate treatment amidst a field that unfortunately is prevalent with both provider incompetence/miseducation and patient misuse.
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