Center for Disease Control Recommendations for Chronic Pain
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a report on March 18th, 2016 improving the way opioids are prescribed through clinical practice.These new guidelines will ensure patients have access to safer, more effective chronic pain treatment while reducing the number of people who misuse, abuse, or overdose from these drugs.
HPA Axis and Pain
The hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis, or the HPA axis, is a system your brain relies on to regulate fear and mood. It can process inputs causing pain and produce an emotional response. The HPA axis consists of three biological components:
Erase Your Fear, Cure Your Pain
Fear is not your friend when it comes to living with chronic pain. Fear of movement can hold you captive causing further regression into a life of more pain and further disability. Your brain is constantly rewiring itself, processing new information, and creating shortcuts to adapt to environmental changes. While these processes occur unconsciously, they can […]
The Opioid Epidemic [Why It Shouldn’t Be Happening]
The Opioid Epidemic. In the United States, over 100 million people suffer from chronic pain or around one-third of adults. (1) In 2012, over 259 million opioid prescriptions were written. (2) Four out of five heroin users admit to abusing their own painkiller prescriptions prior to trying heroin.3 Opioids refer to a class of drugs with […]
Cervical Herniated Disc & Stretching
This is Joe Tatta, Physical Therapist, helping you to move towards better health. Today, I’m talking to you about the Cervical Spine. Here’s a mistake people make when it comes to treating their own cervical pain. A lot of people get tightness or the sensation of tightness on one side of their neck. If it’s […]
3 Tips: Sitting, Neck Pain and Posture
This is Joe Tatta, Physical Therapist, helping you to move towards better health. Today, I am going to give you a quick ergonomic assessment that you can take with you to your workplace to prevent pain. I would like to give you a couple of basic tips. Tip #1: When sitting in your chair, sit […]
