Pain Management and the Patients Own Judgement of Ability to Work
Suffering from persistent pain is one of the leading causes to absence from work and to workers compensation, but what more is, it is also a major cause to reduced work performance while at work1,2,3,...
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Reducing the Risk for Chronic Pain
Providing a patient centred approach is a core value of primary care and has often been mentioned here at the Picture of Pain Blog. Today’s patients are educated consumers with easy access to...
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Could This Improve Health Care?
When I was attending TEDMED this year, we voted among 51 challenges in healthcare to find the 20 most important, or as they are called, the Great Challenges. They are all important, as was most of the...
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Opioids: Misuse, Restrictions and Communication
“A good scalpel makes a better surgeon. Good communication makes a better doctor.” - Dr. Josh Umbehr I came to remember this when I read the latest issue of Annals of Family Medicine (July/August 2012)...
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Don’t Keep an Eye on the Ball in Chronic Pain
Keeping an eye on the ball and not the man is important in soccer and other ball games, and is an often used metaphor for advising to keep focus on the subject, not the persons involved. However...
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Updates on Pain – This Week’s Links – week 42/2013
Cochrane Review: Low evidence for short-time effect of opioids on chronic low back pain, no evidence supporting the effectiveness and safety of long-term opioid therapy for treatment of CLBP. Why...
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Sick, Fit or Just Not Quite Well
“Sick” and “fit” are words we use every day as opposite terms and descriptions. They can be seen as complementary and representing two different perspectives on the same. However it does matter which...
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Updates on Pain – This Week’s Links – week 45/2013
Cochrane Review: Interventions for the reduction of prescribed opioid use in chronic non-cancer pain Stopping using opioid drugs is not easy, especially when they have been used for some time, because...
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Weekly Updates on Pain – 9/2014
***CLICK ON HEADLINES FOR SOURCE*** Long-term use of opioids for complex chronic pain Given the lack of adequate trials data, recent epidemiologic studies suggest the need for caution when...
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Self-Management Pain Care – But For Who?
Those who are younger, perceiving adequate self-management support from healthcare providers, have higher education, better overall health, and receiving sufficient pain management tend to engage and...
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