Download or read book Chronic Pain Management Education in Physical Therapy Curriculum written by Stephanie Grigely and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: BACKROUND AND PURPOSE: Approximately $90 billion annually is spent on chronic pain due to reduced productivity and related medical expenses. Patients with chronic pain are often treated by physical therapists, yet there is no delineated practice pattern for this large population. A study done by Scudds, Scudds, and Simmonds5 in1996, demonstrated that pain management is not a major focus in the physical therapy classroom. The purpose of this study was to document current faculty perceptions of student competency in chronic pain assessment and management, the progression of the physical therapy curriculum since the study of Scudds, Scudds & Simmonds in 1996, and the content and curriculum hours devoted to chronic pain management education within entry-level physical therapy programs. SUBJECTS: The target population for this study consisted of the department chairs of 100 percent (194) accredited, entry-level physical therapy programs in the United States, as listed on the APTA web site, February 2004. METHODS: The pain curriculum survey developed by Scudds, Scudds, and Simmonds was streamlined in content and adapted to assess faculty attitudes and curriculum content specific to chronic pain. Information was gathered on knowledge and use of the IASP curriculum guide for physical and occupational therapy, chronic pain courses taught and approximate number of hours spent on chronic pain education, and the faculty perception of competency of recent graduates in the area of chronic pain assessment and management. ANALYSES: Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data obtained from the surveys, as well as an independent samples t-test comparing classroom hours spent on chronic pain education between masters and doctoral level programs. RESULTS: The chronic pain education survey yielded a 34percent (66/194) response rate. Four returned surveys were not completed and were omitted from the analysis. Thirty-two percent (62/194) surveys were used for statistical analysis. The majority of the survey respondents noted that there is an adequate amount of time spent on chronic pain topics including: biology of pain, pain measurement, management, and psychosocial issues. Faculty in entry-level physical therapy programs noted that students are adequately prepared to assess and treat patients with chronic pain. The mean amount of classroom hours spent on chronic pain education documented among respondents was 15 hours. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Survey design may have contributed to a low response rate as well as incomplete and inaccurately completed forms. Several faculty members stated their opinion that competency in chronic pain management was a skill beyond entry-level and others noted that pain management education was adequate for what is expected of their students upon graduation. Further research examining CAPTE requirements for the curriculum or physical therapy recent graduate's perception of competency in chronic pain management would be well warranted.
Download or read book Chronic Pain Management for Physical Therapists written by Harriët Wittink and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first and only book on chronic pain management written specifically for physical therapists. This unique resource provides physical therapists and physical therapy students with practical information for treating patients with chronic pain
Download or read book Chronic Pain Management written by Michael E. Schatman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic Pain Management: Guidelines for Multidisciplinary Program Development is the most comprehensive textbook to date on the multidisciplinary approach to chronic pain management. Written by an illustrious group of contributors, this volume serves as a must-have armamentarium of guidelines for the development of a successful pain management prog
Download or read book Pain Care Essentials written by Beth B. Hogans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may come as something of a surprise that pain, the most prevalent symptom in clinical practice, is not always addressed specifically in health professions training. Approximately one in six Americans lives with chronic pain in addition to the millions that experience acute pain each day. Half of older adults live with chronic pain-associated conditions, and about half of all healthcare visits are initiated because of pain. Despite this, reports indicate that the vast majority of health professions schools in the United States do not teach required courses on pain, and the total amount of content pertaining to pain is a fraction of a percent of the total. Almost certainly, the lack of education in coordinated, comprehensive, compassionate care for pain-associated conditions contributed to pervasive opioid over-prescribing and the ensuing wave of addiction and deaths that swept the country in the first part of this century. This book is our response to the pain care crisis - it is designed to prepare young clinicians to assess and treat a wide variety of pain conditions in a manner that balances competence and compassion, incorporating coordinated elements of pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies. Designed to be read during or after pre-licensure training, e.g. medical, nursing, pharmacy school, and to inspire students to learn more about painful conditions, this book is unique in its clinical focus and the level of detail that is included. This book aims to improve pain care, most especially if used alongside a formal pain care course as part of pre-licensure training, whether spread over four years or condensed into a shorter period. Through engagement in the interprofessional curriculum planning process, the content of the book has been shaped to align with the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) interprofessional pain curriculum vision and to focus on the primary questions of: What is pain? How is pain assessed? How is pain managed? How does clinical context influence pain?
Download or read book Pain and Disability written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painâ€"it is the most common complaint presented to physicians. Yet pain is subjectiveâ€"it cannot be measured directly and is difficult to validate. Evaluating claims based on pain poses major problems for the Social Security Administration (SSA) and other disability insurers. This volume covers the epidemiology and physiology of pain; psychosocial contributions to pain and illness behavior; promising ways of assessing and measuring chronic pain and dysfunction; clinical aspects of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation; and how the SSA's benefit structure and administrative procedures may affect pain complaints.
Download or read book Therapeutic neuroscience education teaching patients about pain a guide for clinicians written by Adriaan Louw and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence shows that patients who better understand their pain, and what pain truly is, experience less pain, have less fear, move better, exercise more and can regain hope. In this textbook, physical therapists Adriaan Louw and Emilio Puentedura deliver an evidence-based perspective on how the body and brain collaborate to create pain, teach how to convey this view of pain to patients, and demonstrate how to integrate therapeutic neuroscience education into a practice.--
Download or read book Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain written by Sandra M. LeFort and published by Bull Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic pain includes many types of conditions from a variety of causes. This book is designed to help those suffering from chronic pain learn to better manage pain so they can get on with living a satisfying, fulfilling life. This resource stresses four concepts: each person with chronic pain is unique, and there is no one treatment or approach that is right for everybody; there are many things people with chronic pain can do to feel better and become more active and involved in life; with knowledge and experimentation, each individual is the best judge of which self-management tools and techniques are best for him or her; and, the responsibility for managing chronic pain on a daily basis rests with the individual and no one else. Acknowledging that overcoming chronic pain is a daily challenge, this workbook provides readers with the tools to overcome that test. A Moving Easy Program CD, which offers a set of easy-to-follow exercises that can be performed at home, is also included.
Download or read book An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Core Competencies in Pain Management for Prelicensure Education written by Schaun Seaburg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relieving Pain in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic pain costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enlist the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in examining pain as a public health problem. In this report, the IOM offers a blueprint for action in transforming prevention, care, education, and research, with the goal of providing relief for people with pain in America. To reach the vast multitude of people with various types of pain, the nation must adopt a population-level prevention and management strategy. The IOM recommends that HHS develop a comprehensive plan with specific goals, actions, and timeframes. Better data are needed to help shape efforts, especially on the groups of people currently underdiagnosed and undertreated, and the IOM encourages federal and state agencies and private organizations to accelerate the collection of data on pain incidence, prevalence, and treatments. Because pain varies from patient to patient, healthcare providers should increasingly aim at tailoring pain care to each person's experience, and self-management of pain should be promoted. In addition, because there are major gaps in knowledge about pain across health care and society alike, the IOM recommends that federal agencies and other stakeholders redesign education programs to bridge these gaps. Pain is a major driver for visits to physicians, a major reason for taking medications, a major cause of disability, and a key factor in quality of life and productivity. Given the burden of pain in human lives, dollars, and social consequences, relieving pain should be a national priority.
Download or read book Physical Therapy Patient Education for the Management of a Low Back Derangement Syndrome written by Ute Hohenfeld Breese and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Chronic Pain written by John Otis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-24 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been proven effective at managing various chronic pain conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, chronic back pain, and tension/migraine headache. The CBT treatment engages patients in an active coping process aimed at changing maladaptive thoughts and behaviors that can serve to maintain and exacerbate the experience of chronic pain. Overcoming Chronic Pain, Therapist Guide instills all of these empirically validated treatments into one comprehensive, convenient volume that no clinician can do without. By presenting the basic, proven-effective CBT methods used in each treatment, such as stress management, sleep hygiene, relaxation therapy and cognitive restructuring, this guide can be used to treat all chronic pain conditions with success.
Download or read book Explain Pain written by David S Butler and published by Noigroup Publications. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine an orchestra in your brain. It plays all kinds of harmonious melodies, then pain comes along and the different sections of the orchestra are reduced to a few pain tunes. All pain is real. And for many people it is a debilitating part of everyday life. It is now known that understanding more about why things hurt can actually help people to overcome their pain. Recent advances in fields such as neurophysiology, brain imaging, immunology, psychology and cellular biology have provided an explanatory platform from which to explore pain. In everyday language accompanied by quirky illustrations, Explain Pain discusses how pain responses are produced by the brain: how responses to injury from the autonomic motor and immune systems in your body contribute to pain, and why pain can persist after tissues have had plenty of time to heal. Explain Pain aims to give clinicians and people in pain the power to challenge pain and to consider new models for viewing what happens during pain. Once they have learnt about the processes involved they can follow a scientific route to recovery. The Authors: Dr Lorimer Moseley is Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and the Inaugural Chair in Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, where he leads research groups at Body in Mind as well as with Neuroscience Research Australia in Sydney. Dr David Butler is an international freelance educator, author and director of the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute, based in Adelaide, Australia. Both authors continue to publish and present widely.
Download or read book Core Curriculum for Professional Education in Pain written by International Association for the Study of Pain. Task Force on Professional Education and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pain Pain Go Away written by Matt Bambrick and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical therapy is a healthy, safe, and effective way to relieve pain naturally. If you are looking for pain relief without the risk of side effects, you may check this book. This book was written to educate the public about the benefits of self-referral to physical therapy for pain treatment. The author, the esteemed physical therapist, practice owner, and industry expert has leveraged her thirty years of experience to combine clinical research, insights, and personal anecdotes that are sure to resonate with patients and professionals alike. In this book, you'll learn: Why your physical therapist is the most qualified to treat your pain How direct access saves you time, money and gets better results How to start treatment today, without a physician referral Given all the recent changes in physical therapy access, healthcare, and the expected changes to come, the timing of this book is perfect. Direct Access to Physical Therapy supports the vision of the physical therapy profession to transform society.
Download or read book Listening to Pain written by Scott M. Fishman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how communicating better with patients about their pain can help clinicians create safer and more effective treatment strategies. This book offer clinicians a wealth of pratical guidance about asking the right questions and assessing patient responses.
Download or read book The Role of Education in the Treatment of Chronic Pain Patients written by Donna L. Agan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The factors involved in the successful self-management of chronic pain are not well understood. Many issues complicate addressing these factors. Individual suffering, exhaustion of family resources, and the costs to society for medical care, lost wages, welfare and disability benefits demand increasingly more resources each year. At the micro level, patients who live the daily rigors of chronic pain want medical science to solve their malady. At the macro level, health plan administrators want their patients to successfully self-manage pain with the least medical intervention and cost, because they know a cure is not probable. In the middle, the medical provider must balance the patient's needs with the limited resources of the medical system. As managed care becomes the fountain of medical treatment, health care systems must apportion the magnitude of services and quality of life only as far as it balances with the bottom line. Chronic pain is one of the most frustrating problems facing medical practitioners today because research has yet to provide definitive solutions. While researchers, pain specialists, and patients demand adequate pain control, including the aggressive use of opioid medications, front-line providers, medical review boards, governmental regulators and society fear the potential crossover into addiction. Medical science can offer care, compassion, pain management, and some modalities of treatment, but a cure is unlikely. In a quantitative study, I examined various characteristics of chronic pain patients, their environments, and their utilization of the health care system, including outpatients' office visits and opioid medications. Included was an analysis of available data on 2,561 patients referred to a cognitive-behavioral pain management program in a Southern California HMO. Employing a linear model, I explored statistical relationships of various factors and their apparent importance in managing chronic pain. Briefly, chronic pain knew no boundaries. Demographically, pain was similarly reported irrespective of age, gender, marital status, education, employment, or disability. Also, the higher the reported level of physical pain, the more pain affected each aspect of one's quality of life. The collected data suggested that chronic pain was under treated in the health care setting and that women received significantly less opioid medication to manage pain. People who were referred to an education-based, cognitive-behavioral pain management program reported significantly less pain and utilized fewer health care services over time. Patients attending the program reported high levels of satisfaction and found the pain management tools useful. However, financial outcomes were similar among patients who attended the program, those who dropped out, and those who never attended class. This population, at best, taxes health care resources at a rate of four times that of the mean population. If, as it appears, chronic pain patients were consistently under treated for pain, educational programs for patients will not significantly impact medical costs. Only when the current pain management standards of care are in place and established treatments for chronic pain management are supported by health care providers would we expect the financial aspect of pain management to improve.
Download or read book Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
