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Inflammation is the cornerstone of the body's healing response. Effective regulation of inflammation can help the immune system to work for us rather than against us. This 2 part segment discusses strategies of diet and lifestyle management that can help achieve this regulation and positively impact...
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Findings from a new study conducted by researchers at University of Pittsburg School of Medicine seek to provide expert consensus about treatment approaches to engage to manage challenging and/or concerning behaviors that may accompany long-term opioid use. These may include excessive use of opioids...
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Tanya Uritsky, a clinical pharmacy specialist in pain management and palliative care at the University of Pennsylvania at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses opioid treatment in the current climate.
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Opioid reduction may be necessary in certain patients due to safety risk. Certain patients may be resistant to medication change for a number of physical and psychosocial factors. This presentation aims to provide clinicians with concrete examples of patient centered approaches to handling...
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Motivational interviewing is a patient centered, collaborative style of communication that represents one tool to help clinicians overcome the challenges of conversations surrounding opioid tapers. MI may increase provider comfort and skill in guiding conversations that have potential to cause...
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The field of neurochemical imaging in pain is largely in its infancy. Very few studies have used this method to get at neurotransmitter levels or molecular information in the brain. MRI magnets can be used to detect changes in the way that protons behave in different molecules. So protons and the...
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Pain is really a mind-body experience. So it's unrealistic to think that the mind and the body are somehow separate, or that we can deal with a mind process with only pharmacology. So with that underpinning, we need to figure out how to impact a person's experience with pain. That's really what this...
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Results of a recent phase III clinical trial confirm the efficacy and safety of a novel antibody therapy in reducing the number of days of headache experienced by chronic migraine sufferers. The findings from the HALO CM trial, resorted by researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital...
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Most states have passed legislation to honor a type of advanced directive, commonly known as a POLST, for Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment. It is basically a more detailed and specific DNR (do not resuscitate). Patients consistently report preferences to die peacefully at home but all...
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Remotely assessing and monitoring pain and its associated symptoms may support individuals in making lifestyle changes needed to improve pain management. For persons with chronic pain and providers who treat them, assessment programs, mobile apps, and activity monitors can help encourage behavioral...