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Benefits of Self-Managing Pain

Self-Esteem. Learning to self-manage pain, including tapering opioids, is a therapy that increases people’s ability to cope with pain because it is a shame reducing, …

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What is Pain Management

Pain management is a catchall phrase used to describe multiple types of healthcare services for pain. Pain management can include the following types of services: …

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What is the Neuromatrix of Pain

The notion of the neuromatrix of the brain is an explanatory model of how pain is produced and therapeutically reduced. Ronald Melzack, PhD, a psychologist, initially …

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Coping With Chronic Pain

Coping with Pain. When it comes to the management of chronic pain, good coping is quite possibly the most powerful intervention we have to be able to reduce pain and improve …

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Anxiety and Pain

Anxiety is quite possibly the most common condition that accompanies chronic pain. Anxiety tends to go hand in hand with chronic pain. The reason is that pain is a danger …

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pain

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a traditional form of therapy that is used for a great many types of health conditions. Historically beginning in the 1970’s, it was first used as treatments for …

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Osteoarthritis Pain

Osteoarthritis is a common form of arthritis. It is a pain condition marked by inflammation of the joints. The inflammation causes pain, swelling, and stiffness. Osteoarthritis …

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Fatigue and Pain

Fatigue associated with chronic pain. Daytime fatigue 1 is commonly reported with chronic pain and can be just as challenging to manage. 2 Restorative sleep is undoubtedly important and …

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What is Central Sensitization

Central sensitization is a condition of the nervous system that is associated with the development and maintenance of chronic pain. When central sensitization occurs, the nervous system goes …

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Therapeutic Neuroscience Education

First, therapeutic neuroscience education changes a patient’s perception of pain. Originally, a patient may have believed that a certain tissue was the main cause for their pain. …

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Coping with Pain: How People Who Cope Really Well Do It

4) People who cope with pain really well exercise on a regular basis. Typically, they engage in a low-impact, mild aerobic exercise at least three to four times per week. Examples …

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Opioid Management Debate

The following is a list of common assumptions within the debate about using long-term opioids for the management of chronic pain. After each assumption, a brief review of the …

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Profit-Motive and Pain Management

The ICP is an educational and public policy think tank. In its mission is to lead the field in making pain management more empirically supported, the ICP provides academic …

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The Biopsychosocial Nature of Pain

Like all health conditions, pain is multifactorial. Meaning, multiple factors go into causing pain and maintaining it on a chronic basis.

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Minnesota Leads Nation in Developing New Payment Model for …

The importance of Minnesota’s legislative action to develop and trial a new payment arrangement for an interdisciplinary chronic pain rehabilitation program is …

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