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Dr. Prasad on motivational interviewing (MI) as a counseling approach, initially applied to address drinking behavior. At its core, it helps reduce patients’ ambivalence and move them toward action through use of their own intrinsic motivation. Over the years, MI has been applied broadly across...
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Why and how do people tamper with medications? Does tampering increase the risk of overdosing? Dr. Beatrice Setnik discusses abuse potential and evolving regulatory requirements for clinical methodology. The methods to deter abuse have evolved over time and include various approaches including...
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Connecting with healthcare providers via technology. Good or bad? Will technology be the link between providers and patients more and more in the future? Kevin L. Zacharoff MD, FACIP, FACPE, FAAP, offers his views. Dr. Zacharoff is Faculty and Clinical Instructor Course Director, Pain and Addiction...
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What interventional procedures are common? What works? Do patients comply with physician instructions? Dr. Christo talks about his experiences.
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Chronic pain is quite common as well as challenging in geriatric patients. Dr. Gupta of Kansas Pain Management in Kansas City offers his experience of the aging population, the future of geriatric pain management, and potential treatments.
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Headache specialists Drs. Nina Riggins and Larry Charleston IV discuss medication overuse, medication overuse headache, and prevention of this problem.
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Pain conditions that often occur together and either solely or predominantly affect women have been termed by the NIH as chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs). They include: vulvodynia, temporomandibular disorders, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome...
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Tapering medication can be stressful for a patient. How can a practitioner make it less so? VA doctors Robert Sproul and Sanjog Pangarkar discuss the importance of communication and partnership between patient and practitioner.
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Dr. Doug Gourlay and legal expert Jennifer Bolen discuss the intersection of medicine and law. What are the connections between carrying out licensing board directives on using opioids to treat pain, reasonably prudent medical decision-making, and documentation. Practitioners must never lose sight...
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Manual therapies and the human touch positively affect people with chronic pain, and are an important part of a multimodal, interdisciplinary approach to pain management. Michael Kurisu, DO, ABIHM, is the clinical director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California San...