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Biobehavioral treatments are a great addition to the toolkit that primary care providers already have. Not only can they help with managing the pain condition, they can help with all sorts of associated symptoms like depression and anxiety, frustration and lack of self-efficacy, as well as with...
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Results from a study conducted at University of California San Diego School of Medicine conclude that a single session of moderate exercise can stimulate the immune system to produce an anti-inflammatory response. The authors say that the findings may point to new approaches to the management of...
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Chair yoga may be an effective alternate therapy for older adults with lower extremity osteoarthritis, according to findings from a new study conducted by researchers from Florida Atlantic University. According to the authors, this is the first randomized controlled study of the efficacy of this...
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I’m not sure if odd is necessarily the right word. They’re odd in the sense that not everyone gets them after these certain types of surgeries. It’s only a subset of patients that tend to get long sequelae of pain after these surgeries. So I guess in that way, it’s odd, but they are actually pretty...
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Odd neuropathic pain disorders are a problem in the United States and across the world. Some of the more common ones that we tend to see are post mastectomy syndrome, post thoracotomy syndrome, and post inguinal hernia repair syndrome. They’re typically considered neuropathic pain states. They’re...
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When we consider the 50 billion brain cells and trillions of connections that are involved in the experience of pain, it’s preposterous to think that administering a pill or a series of pills or a patch is really going to change the environment substantially. There are so many ways to impact that...
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In the last two years, states regulators have essentially codified what amounts to standard treatment for chronic pain. Now we’ve always had the World Health Organization three-step ladder and a lot of guidelines, but states have drilled down and said that opioid dosage of between 60 and 120 mg of...
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This segment introduces the concept of virtual reality and offers an exploration of its utility in combination with other cognitive behavioral therapies in pain management.
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The available research provides scant evidence in support of medication or interventional procedures for reducing pain associated with functional impairment. Dr. Pohl outlines the elements of a more comprehensive treatment approach that engages nonpharmacologic modalities.
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Doctors Gourlay and Heit, specialists in the arena of pain and addition, explore some of the more common issues confronting the primary care clinician in the management of long-term opioid prescribing. The focus is on the challenges of the inherited patient. In part 2, we consider the issue of...