Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Pain

Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Pain

In addition to medications, there are other modalities that people can use to help reduce and manage their chronic pain. This talk focused on some of these methods.

Speaker: Ravi Prasad, PhD

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[grannytam]

It is very eveident you do not have or really understand long term chronic pain patients that have tried ALL of those things and am still in HORRIBLE PAIN!

[grannytam]

Go to classes for 9 weeks, and appointments when it hurts to much to walk or There are tens of thousands of us that can NOT play your horriable evil game!!!We have gone to ALL of those doctors and classes and spent years researching our self!!!! Flares???? Some of us stay in flares!!!!

[iluvmybxboys]

CBT used for chronic pain...thank you, you’re also an admirable speaker and teacher, too!

[mildredbradway]

I have been in chronic pain for 7 years on failed TKR. The dr who did the surgery lies. He now, has 3action lawsuit. Not me.
Plus the implant from B.Braun Aesculap total knee replacement has a class Action suit too they failed to notified the Dr of the malfunction of the part. Pain is pain. It's not on the mind!

[woodenwolf]

The matter of fact understanding this Dr. is speaking with is so refreshing! But it's counter productive to physicians with a heavy reliance on their pen and pads, that's why it's taken so long to find these hopeful modalities. Too few Dr.'s cared to seek understanding and insights to the patient's perspective like this man has. It is all too easy for them to write people off as somataforms or red-flag them as pill seekers. Hoping more take a page from this Dr's book. Does he have one?

[mitchnidey]

God bless you and your family and friends

[julieahrnes]

Maybe you should include a slide about how doctors selling orthopedic surgeries, like used car salesmen, causing horrible life changing nerve injuries. Up to 30% of elective orthopedic surgeries, like knee replacements end up leaving the patient's in chronic pain for the remainder of their lives. I had a bunion surgery which took my career, self and any sort of life away. I ended up with a peroneal nerve injury and complex regional pain syndrome. After my surgery, the pain was excruciating and it only got worse with time. At what point do you get to decide that I don't deserve pain relief anymore? I was a physical therapist, I owned a gym and coached a world class athletic team. Now I am one of those losers who can't do anything except go to the doctor and think about what treatment I would use next. Good thing that I didn't see your video, because I kept trying to get better. I went to Italy for treatment and exercised and actually got myself to a close remission. Then, wanting a lidocaine infusion, I went to an arrogant pain doctor at a University hospital. He was so rough with my foot. He did a quick Babinsky reflex test and broke my 3rd metatarsal with his hands. He then laughed and told his student, "she didn't like that did she?". Now I am completely relapsed again from another doctor and his mistakes. Watching your video is unbelievable that you expect people to live in the kind of pain that I have that you doctors cause. No life. No job. No happiness. Opioids allow us to get out of the house and to exercise to regain our function. You are one ankle sprain or surgery away from being just like rest of us. I take opioids to function and to have some kind of life. I can put a sentence together just fine. You expect me to live in pain for the remainder of my life? No way. Exercise and being out of pain is the most important thing that we can do. I'm not going to sit in a wheelchair and let you judge me for taking medication that allows me to function. I'm going to take opioids to exercise myself back to remission then make sure that I steer clear of pain doctors like you for the rest of my life. Shame on you. This video is the most depressing thing that someone in chronic pain should ever have to watch. I made my husband watch it and you made him sick to his stomach. I'm going to post it to my chronic pain website as an example of what not to believe or do. You think that it's cruel for us to hope, well to heck with you. You are so off base with your judgements. Chronic pain is nothing even close to diabetes. Asking us to
live without narcotics would be like asking the diabetic to live without insulin. Most cases of chronic pain are caused by surgeries. How dare you doctors hurt us and then tell us we have no right to live without pain. I'm going to a CRPS conference on the 24th of March. I've noticed someone from your clinic will be there. I sure hope that he's not coming with a presentation like yours.

[nickieiveson]

Do you have a contact number for the pain management center

[sidewaysrain]

Not a sign of imminent damage even though it's progressive (Oxymoron)
- It is funny to me that's a huge percentage of doctors that treat intense long-term pain have no clue of what it actually is to experience it!

[aymansulaiman]

very informative, simple and I'm surprised i felt thats a comprehensive description of my condition and the gradual poly drug use which also alter ur mood and gets ur emotions less sensitive stims gets u motivated, social and get things done while the opioids are taking care of the stim induced anxiety… then it wears off and the emotional and physical stats drop at the end of the day.. so u pop ur percocet or whatever and benzos cuz again they the combine well despite the risk…… then comes that moment of taking a look at ur life .. and find out uve been tripping daily with these meds...

[Sketch]

Nothing says quality of life like being concious of your breathing...

[camerrill]

In other words, you are expendable, no soup for you, get used to it.

[rondarawson]

Wait it's a debilitating disease degenerative spinal stinosis....but it's not affecting you Daily??? Your pain is pain but it's not worse? But it will be if you over due it as it's progressing words are fighting don't make sense....I don't live on pain medication because I cannot tolerate pills as I'm celiac and the digestion factor will put me in the hospital worsening the pain till I feel like I'm gonna my body has pushed past the pain level I thought was intolerable....without any pain killer....it left me in a compromising I can tolerate pushing myself further then I have had to learn the hard way as I have ended up in the emergency room time and time also have more then 10 things going on at a time....so I feel blessed to be able to still look walk and still be able to grocery shop and do light it all comes at a price....it all has to be balanced understanding weather fluctuations of cold and hot etc....also lowered immune system as celiac disease lowers your immunity....there is so much more in the nutrition field on this...as I am highly into using food as medicine....and herbs....etc...but for you to say pain is just pain is absurd. see if somebody smashed your spine....and left you with the wonder if you would still be acting like everybody is superman. everybody can tolerate pain like this...when we both know most people can't tolerate a paper cut without crying....I get the bandaid effect with pills....people want to be medicated....but for me it only made it worse....I always felt the pain worse as the medication surrounded my pain in a circle effect and made the pain more pronounced till i was physically sick....then the side effects hit me....i couldnt function or rather be in pain and tolerate it then to be a zombie and not be able to

[grannytam]

Mind control ? How do you change your mind?

[mitchnidey]

I take Suboxone daily. Without opiates I would be miserable.

[TIMESAYEAR]

Ok, you just made a big mistake - "chronic benign pain" from arthritis isn't like cancer pain. Scuze moi, but both are ongoing disease processes and the body doesn't distinguish between sources. Some cancers don't cause any pain at all. Quitting right here, right now, because it sounds like you're saying that cancer patients deserve relief and arthritis patients don't. Enough. Chronic pain wears on you; it takes a huge toll, and everyone - everyone - regardless of the cause, deserves to have their pain alleviated - and if opioids help, they should be an option. You people have come to think you're gods.

[utindhbotanical]

you must try kratom, because kratom good for health

[randyklutts]

Lots of talk, no action. The usual shell game.

[billysmith]

From the mouth of some one who probably doesn't know pain. To the company who uses guinea pigs that cann't talk. I can TALK I've been a guinea pig with spinal cord compression for 57 years. They don't want to listen cus they don't feel good when there is no way to fix the problem. The person with PAIN always pays.

[randyklutts]

This is OLD NEWS. Eight years ago! The speaker is probably long gone, spreading this BS somewhere else. Try to find a pain management who isn't a crackpot. Insurance? Forget about it!