"Has anyone ever explained pain to you?" Rachel Zoffness, PhD, always asks her patients this one question in order to bridge the gap between her patient's understanding of their own pain and what other health care providers have told them about their pain.

On today's episode of Pain Reframed, Dr. Zoffness joins Tim Flynn, PT, PHD, OCS, FAAOMPT, and Jeff Moore, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, to discuss her new workbooks that she created to help bridge that education gap that patients have of their understanding of what their pain is telling them about their bodies. Dr. Zoffness wrote these workbooks for her own practice as a psychologist treating adolescents and young adults and is now ready to share this incredible resource with other providers.

Links:
https://www.zoffness.com/
The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens
The Pain Management Workbook
@DrZoffness
@jeffmooredpt
@timothywflynn
@EIMteam

On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Tim Flynn, PT, PHD, OCS, FAAOMPT, and Jeff Moore, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, discuss how to regroup and focus in 2021 on how clinicians can help their clients and patients during the global pandemic, by building up their immune systems through fitness, lifestyle choices and nutrition alongside social distancing and masks. They also talk about the rise of overdoses, the COVID-19 vaccines and how to move forward in 2021.

Links:

Rest, Relaxation, and the Immune System 11/13/2020

Is older age associated with COVID-19 mortality in the absence of other risk factors? General population cohort study of 470,034 participants

The Hidden Epidemic of Opioid Overdoses During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, David Clawson, MD, joins Tim and Jeff to discuss holistically approaching neck and back pain and spinal deformity, breaking down how Dr. Clawson has used that approach his field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Dr. Clawson categorizes the threats that patients are up against -physical and mental, then dives into the review of systems to inform and determine his plan of care. Dr. Clawson also discusses in depth how to transition from the physical evaluation to the mental or spiritual evaluation that plays such a large part of pain.

Links:

@jeffmooredpt
@timothywflynn

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On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Tim Flynn and Jeff Moore talk with Andrew Pugh, MD and Keith Roper, DPT to discuss their new research paper "Dedicated emergency department physical therapy is associated with reduced imaging, opioid administration, and length of stay: A prospective observational study" and how this research affects their practice in emergency medicine.

Links:

Dedicated emergency department physical therapy is associated with reduced imaging, opioid administration, and length of stay: A prospective observational study

@DrAEPugh

@KeithRoperDPT

@jeffmooredpt

@timothywflynn

On this week's episode Liz and Jeff speak with Dr. Kirsty Bannister, a renowned researcher on conditioned pain modulation, about what we know, what we’re studying, and what we can look forward to in the future of this topic.

Kirsty completed BSc, MRes and PhD degrees at University College London and and Imperial College before returning to UCL for a decade-long postdoctoral research position in the laboratory of Professor Anthony Dickenson. In 2017 Kirsty gained her faculty position upon joining King’s College London where she now runs her research group investigating the central modulation of pain. Specifically Kirsty's research team bridges the gap between bench and bedside pain research by conducting exploratory experiments that seek to molecularly, anatomically and/or functionally define descending control pathways in rodent and man using electrophysiology and human psychophysics respectively. Kirsty has led multiple symposia at world pain congresses including IASP and EFIC and she also performs Section Editor duties for multiple pain-related journals. 

Links:

kirsty.bannister@kcl.ac.uk

@bannister_lab

Kirsty Bannister's Lab address: Wolfson CARD, King’s College London, London, SE1 1UL

@jeffmooredpt

@LizPeppin

In this episode, Liz and Tim speak with Dr. Heidi Jannenga PT, DPT, ATC, physical therapist and co-founder of WebPT, regarding the difficult topic of inequity in health care for people of color. We discuss the problems of implicit bias, systemic racism, and the 90% problem in the PT profession. Heidi also provides some small ways we can all work to improve.

Links:
Justice In June
Why We Cannot—And Do Not—Serve Our Patients Equally
Bridging the PT Diversity Gap
Connect with Heidi via LinkedIn

Some books regarding these topics:
The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
How to be an Antiracist (Ibram X Kendi)
Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)

In this episode, Liz and Adam talk to artist and educator Emily Lanctot about how art and pain cross paths. She discusses the ethics of museums accepting donations from families such as the Sacklers, who were largely responsible for the devastation of the opioid crisis. Emily also gives her insight on how to cope with grief, anxiety and pain through art and creativity.

Links:

emilylanctot.com

@eimly_lanctot

DeVos Art Museum

@LizPeppin

@adampaulryan

Opioid Addiction Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

On this week's episode of Pain Reframed, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser joins Tim Flynn to discuss how trauma affects every part of your life. His own family history of trauma has driven his mission as the Attorney General to fight the opioid epidemic by first, stopping and listening to his constituents, then addressing those issues through lawsuits and opioid-related task forces. 

Links:

@COAttnyGeneral

coag.gov/about-us/colorado-attorney-general

Opioid Unit

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