5 Ways Social Interactions Promote Analgesia
Imagine two identical female patients with chronic low back pain walked into your office. Both women have suffered from low back pain for over 5 years and both tell you that their current pain intensity is 8/10, with 10 being the worst back pain imaginable! The first woman calmly describes her frustrating journey with pain. […]
How to Effectively Taper Off Opioids and 3 Tips For Living Happily Ever After Without Them
Chronic opioid therapy is not a long-term solution for pain. And it shouldn’t be the first choice in the treatment for those with chronic pain. The recommendations in this blog post focus on pain lasting longer than 3 months or past the time of normal tissue healing, outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and […]
The Top 5 Overlooked Benefits of Exercise and How It Works to Rapidly Alleviate Chronic Pain
No medication even comes close to exhibiting equal pain relieving benefits as exercise and it has virtually no negative side effects. Exercise has been shown to be just as effective as prescription medication for managing pain (1). There are numerous benefits for your health and some of the most well-known benefits include: Reversing obesity Managing […]
5 Powerful Ways to Reverse the Nocebo Effect and Feel Better
Are you ensuring that the language you use when conversing with your patients is having a healing effect? If not, your lack of awareness may be the reason some of your patients have a difficult time managing their chronic pain. Your words are very powerful and have the ability to heal or harm. The language […]
Spirituality and pain management. Evidence-based or hocus pocus?
Why is there so much pain in life? And does collaborating with a higher power help to ease the suffering? Most importantly, what impact do the spiritual beliefs of your patient have on their ability to cope with pain? Spiritual beliefs of the patient are a valuable asset for helping manage pain. With anywhere from […]
Could the Biopsychosocial Model Cure the Opioid Epidemic?
Has a new patient ever entered your office with a laundry list of 10 medications that are supposedly “controlling” the severity of their chronic pain? If their pain is so well controlled, then why are they in your office, still searching for ways to heal their pain? Is polypharmacy really helping our patients? Many have […]
