Who We AreIntroduction Dr. Ouellette Contact us through our PainReliefLifestyle.com comments page for a free consultation even if you have chronic pain and have experienced many types of varied treatments. Movement Eating The Looking Glass Vision
How it All Began As it turned out, the Pain Relief Diet was and still is a very healthy diet being a low Calorie, lower fat, and low red meat diet. Optimal health became the goal with pain relief being a part of this overall umbrella. There were many secrets, many techniques. Clinical tools were necessary to measure various aspects. Dr. Ouellette began creating questionnaire tools and testing them in his practice. In 1998 he began combining them into a larger, more comprehensive questionnaire that would cover most all aspects of optimal health that was not medically oriented to drugs and surgery. Dr. Ouellette began to build the principles, protocols, and factors that were pertinent to optimal health by scouring the scientific literature for information that was applicable to optimal health and pain relief. As Dr. Ouellette had a long background in nutrition and personal experience with food born problems, he was already strategically placed to investigate the food pain connection. Concluding that five pillars were necessary to address the issue of optimal health in a thorough comprehensive fashion, Dr. Ouellette began building questionnaire tools from information gleaned from scientific research papers. Spinal health was an obvious choice for a pillar as most everyone experiences some form of spinal pain in their lifetime and huge sums of money are spent on the treatment of back and neck pain disorders. Nutrition and exercise were also obvious choices as mounting research showed the value of considering these two pillars very carefully. Dr. Ouellette came upon the idea of a Pain Relief Diet through many years of long struggle in the nutrition field weighing conflicting research in an up and down yo-yo effect as one or another theory gained both scientific and media attention at varying times. It became clear the food and nutrition industries were struggling to make their products assimilated by the largest possible population base. Several secrets emerged. The Pain Relief Diet took shape. Next came testing on patients to determine if this type of a diet really was a powerful as it seemed. Dr. Ouellette's in house research indicated that there was something to this food pain connection. A brief manuscript was written that was called the Secret Diet for Pain Relief and printed up for handing out at public talks. This was quickly turned into a fairly large predraft manuscript as there was a lot of data on this topic. Information was paired down to the book Dr. Ouellette's Pain Relief Diet Manual published in May 2002 with just the important essentials included. It became clear that this was indeed a difficult diet, but the rewards were very great. Some of the new concepts had to modify the traditional advice given to people who are NOT in pain. Pain changes things. Pain requires particular attention to specific items. Given the incomplete science, and the conflicting science, Dr. Ouellette took a specific approach for people in pain. When in doubt, leave it out. That is to say, when the clinician is in doubt then leave it out of the diet. This approach works quite well in crisis clinical situations. As people heal, things change. Many people were cheating on the diet and asking for help. Dr. Ouellette wrote the second book Cheating on the Pain Relief Diet published in 2006 as a help to people who could not stick strictly to the diet plan. There still remained a need to measure people, not just for the Pain Relief Diet, but for optimal health protocols as well because optimal health and pain relief are tied together. Dr. Ouellette began building a comprehensive lifestyle questionnaire that would measure optimal health, the Pain Relief Lifestyle and the Pain Relief Diet. This questionnaire was begun long before the books were written and was first built as a paper model, then as a computer model and finally as a web model now residing at www.TheQ.ca. The decision to be thorough and comprehensive instead of short and convenient was made as a tactical business decision from a clinical perspective. People need help, but first the clinician needs information. It is apparent that a new culture can be fashioned around optimal health, the Pain Relief Lifestyle and the Pain Relief Diet. We are in the process of fashioning that culture now. Both governments and individuals stand to gain by a culture of optimal health and a pain relief lifestyle. We are on the roadway now. Come join us. |