TREATMENT IN GENERAL
Biopsychosocial evaluation is important to identity pain amplifiers:
Multidisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation, in managing complex pain syndromes, led to up to 50% reductions in pain, opioid use, surgeries, hospitalizations, and patients on disability.
Barriers to treatment often influence what we do at the point of care. Some of the important barriers are tabulated here.
- From a physical standpoint, persistent musculoskeletal pain in the absence of identifiable pathology is common in returning OEF/OIF veterans.
- Amplifying factors: underlining depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), substance abuse disorder, financial/disability issues.
- Fear avoidance training and interdisciplinary rehabilitation is better when compared with conventional medical interventions.
Multidisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation, in managing complex pain syndromes, led to up to 50% reductions in pain, opioid use, surgeries, hospitalizations, and patients on disability.
Barriers to treatment often influence what we do at the point of care. Some of the important barriers are tabulated here.
