Fibromyalgia
July 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This reference details what fibromyalgia is and what role OT plays in treatment.
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Pain Evaluation Clinical Reasoning Octagon
July 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
A clinical reasoning tool for clinicians to use to reflect on difficult pain related cases. It can also be useful to help instructors teach physical, speech, or occupational therapy students how to reason through pain related cases.
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Beyond Opioids: Therapy Strategies to Manage Chronic Pain
June 5, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Chronic pain presents unique challenges to the rehabilitation professional, oftentimes serving as the primary barrier to functional and meaningful progress. This course will explain the different therapy approaches required for effective chronic pain management, while providing a deeper understanding of how pain is processed in the body.
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Understanding Ultrasound
June 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Do you need help remembering parameters for ultrasound? Do you have patients or students that are curious about how ultrasound works? This document outlines the basics behind ultrasound and general guidelines for treatment parameters.
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Should exercises be painful in the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain? A systematic review and meta-analysis (2017)
May 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Providers who work with people with chronic pain often wonder how much pain to allow during exercise. This resource summarizes findings from a study that sought to answer this question. The authors attempted to find the effect of exercises that allowed pain compared to those that didn’t allow pain for pain, function, and disability by […]
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Pain Rules HEP Guide
May 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This intervention piece is a great tool to give with the initial exercise program. It outlines several different options that the clinician can choose for the patient regarding allowed pain with exercise.
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How Important Are Imaging Scans?
January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
People with pain frequently undergo imaging scans. These can be useful in the right context, but can also create a lot of anxiety for people who learn they have issues such as “disc degeneration”. This handout is useful to alleviate some of the anxiety that can accompany imaging scans.
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Which Came First: The Stress or The Pain?
January 22, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The aim of this presentation is to improve the understanding of physiological and neuroscience mechanisms behind both stress and pain as well as the ways in which they interact, and outline strategies we can use to empower our clients and improve their quality of life and function. As therapists, it is important that we have […]
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Chronic Pain: Cognitive Behavioral Approach in Rehabilitation
January 18, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Rehabilitation providers have begun to incorporate pain education into their treatment protocols to influence the patient’s experience, belief, and knowledge to improve their condition and it has shown to be an effective treatment option for the management of chronic pain. The purpose of this course is to familiarize approaches in managing chronic pain.
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Barriers to Home-Based Exercise Program Adherence With Chronic Low Back Pain: Patient Expectations Regarding New Technologies (2016)
January 17, 2022 by Megan Berg.
A qualitative interview study was conducted. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in a sample of 29 patients with chronic lower back pain who had been recommended home-based exercise for at least 2 months. The age of the sample ranged from 20-85 years old and 17 of the 29 patients were women. Multiple individuals participated in the […]
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