Our Integrated Healing Program helps teens with chronic pain and related functional disorders. We offer this rehab program with Rogers Behavioral Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin.

This outpatient program is for stable patients between 13 and 18 years old. Our team treats teens’ physical, emotional and social needs.

The program helps kids manage many different conditions, such as:

• Migraines and chronic headaches
• Amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome
• Complex regional pain syndrome
• Fibromyalgia
• Functional abdominal pain
• Pain associated with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
• Functional neurologic disorders with pain symptoms

Treatments include:

• Physical therapy: These daily sessions focus on helping movement and strength. They also help teach your child ways to manage pain. 
• Cognitive behavioral therapy: This teaches kids to change bad thoughts and behaviors about their pain. This helps improve coping skills and emotional health.
• Dialectical behavior therapy: This teaches kids how to handle stress. It helps them learn to manage emotions, improve relationships and stay focused in the moment.
• Behavioral activation: This pushes kids to do meaningful activities. It helps make their overall mood better and stops them from not doing things they like.

Our team includes experts from the Children’s Wisconsin Jane B. Pettit Pain and Headache Center and from Rogers Behavioral Health. We work together to care for your child’s physical, emotional and social needs. This happens in intensive, eight-hour daily sessions over four to six weeks.

The program offers kids a chance to:

• Practice daily skills
• Move and exercise during two daily sessions of physical therapy
• Engage in team-building activities
• Take part in group sessions
• Learn how to manage their stress, mood and anxiety

Help from parents and caregivers is important in this journey. You'll come to group sessions twice a week and hear from other parents and caregivers. You'll also learn new ways to parent and support your child.

To learn how we can help your child manage their pain or to plan a visit, call us at (414) 266-3955.

Before

The first step is to see if your teen is a good fit for the program.

The care team will:

• Talk to and exam your child
• Do a screening over the phone
• Work with your family to decide the length of your child’s stay

The average length of treatment is four to six weeks and depends on your child is doing.

Program assessment location:

Children's Wisconsin Mequon Clinic
1655 W. Mequon Rd.
Mequon, WI 53092

During

The program meets Monday–Friday, from 8 a.m.–4 p.m.

During the program, your teen will:

• Spend most of their time in group therapy
• Leave group therapy for individual and family sessions
• Visit with a team of experts who help with your child’s medical, emotional and behavioral needs
• Meet weekly with a psychologist and a pain doctor

Program location:

Rogers Behavioral Health
Brown Deer Outpatient Center
4555 W. Schroeder Dr.
Brown Deer, WI 53223

Parent and caregiver groups, as well as family meetings, are virtual. Individual family meetings take place every week.

After

Before your child goes home, the team will set up a plan for follow-up care. This includes going back to school.

After our program, 90% of teens get better. They see positive change in physical and emotional health. Their quality of life gets better, and they worry less about pain and how it will impact them.