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The founder and president of Take Courage Coaching, Becky Curtis, NBC-HWC, CPMC, discusses pain management coaching and its relationship to managed care.
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What are the most common misconceptions about interventional pain management? What are the misconceptions about the specialists who perform the interventions? Associate Professor Paul Christo, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses.
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The current landscape of pain management is shifting. There’s a huge reaction to opioids and the negative impact they’ve had on many people’s lives. Alongside that, there’s a rise in the interest in cannabinoids. Might the legalization of marijuana ultimately reduce opioid deaths? How can pain...
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Heather Poupore-King, PhD, and Jamie Clapp, PT, DPT, OCS, answer our questions about pain management, patients managing their own pain, what “patient-centered” really means, and how the “opioid crisis” is affecting the world of physical therapy.
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Dr. Martin Cheatle, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, offers his opinion on medications used to treat opioid use disorder: methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone.
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Rarely is one medication or pharmacologic class of drugs the answer to a medical conundrum, including pain management. While opioids are indisputably valuable in treating acute pain and some forms of chronic pain, they are just one therapeutic option. Two pharmacists, and PW faculty members Drs...
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Gary Jay, MD, FAAPM, a clinical professor at the University of North Carolina, discusses the all-time high interest in cannabinoids. Does this interest impact the perceived opioid crisis? Do we know enough about CBD and THC to make decisions? What are the facts? What about edibles for headaches?
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As the opioid pendulum swings away from its use, is it swinging closer to music therapy? Joanne Loewy, DA, LCAT, MT-BC, and John Mondanaro, MA, LCAT, MT-BC, CCLS, of Mount Sinai Beth Israel Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine and the Louis & Lucille Armstrong Music Therapy Program...
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Dr. Georgine Lamvu, a gynecologic surgeon and pelvic pain specialist at the VA medical center in Orlando, discusses pelvic floor disorders. Many women suffer in silence; many practitioners don’t know enough.
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Practitioners are experiencing burnout at an alarming rate. Administrative burden is part of the problem. “Healthcare providers didn’t become healthcare providers to do paperwork and to sit at a keyboard.” But how can it be made better? Dr. Kevin Zacharoff, a clinical instructor and course director...