Hello, just wanted to share an article I read this morning that pretty much coincides with your position on pain management that you might find interesting:
Yep, I saw this article was shared by Beth Darnall, who contributed to it:
Overall, the takeaway is that “pain isn’t just something that happens to us,” says Beth Darnall, a professor of anesthesiology at Stanford University. “We are participating with pain by how much attention we give to it, by the contents of our thoughts, and our appraisal. How awful and negative is it? How helpless and hopeless do you feel about it? Do you feel [like] a victim; do you feel at the mercy of your pain?”
Important stuff.
@OBruce Thank you for sharing, loved this article … I will actually be sharing it with some of my co-workers as well! We work with patients all of the time that either have increased depression and/or anxiety due to pain, increased pain due to anxiety or depression or that their depression and anxiety actually began after the initial injury/pain. It is unfortunate many heath care professionals don’t recognize or understand CBT as a valid form of therapy for pain once medical has been cleared; nor do they often work with the psychotherapist to help treat the patient, if we all came together to communicate and treat the patient together, pain outcomes might be drastically different. I hope this thought process for treating pain gains momentum with patients, doctors and behavioral therapists.
@Austin_Baraki Austin get to it, start changing the world of medicine, one pain patient at a time:smile: