SonnyLife Information

SonnyLife exists to serve providers and their patients with support to address the emotional distress pain causes. The personal impact that pain conditions can have on patients has led to an over-reliance on opioids and the alarming epidemic of opioid overdose deaths and abuse. The National Academy of Medicine states that health professionals’ primary role for persistent pain should be "guiding, coaching, and assisting patients with day-to-day self-care." However, this is rarely done as healthcare providers lack the time, training, tools, and reimbursement. Furthermore, when the pain becomes chronic, it is associated with depression, missed work, disability, and intensive use of high-cost high-risk interventions such as opioids, multiple medications, and surgery. Half of people seeking care for pain conditions continue to have pain five years later despite treatment due to patient environmental risk factors. We developed an innovative program and HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform to provide patients with a reimbursable personalized program to implement as part of routine care for persistent pain.