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Same Video, Different Reports: How Assumptions about Pain Shape Observations
Same Video, Different Reports: How Assumptions about Pain Shape Observations

Article 4 – The Employer’s Perspective  There’s a classic learning activity used widely in schools and organizations in which a teacher or facilitator asks a group to watch a short video. Each attendee is then […]
Low Back Pain: The Injured Worker’s Perspective  
Low Back Pain: The Injured Worker’s Perspective  

Article 3 In clinical practice as a physical therapist, I quickly learned that there are many injuries and conditions that – following diagnosis - a patient learns about for the first time. A diagnosis of […]
How can Evidence Beat Assumptions about Pain? Follow the Facts
How can Evidence Beat Assumptions about Pain? Follow the Facts

By AM Stanco Article 2 – Provider   A Weak Back?   When Marvin, a warehouse worker, tweaked his back lifting a box, the narrative began writing itself.  Sound familiar? Assumptions, judgments and misconceptions can quickly take […]
Acute Low Back Pain: Be Careful what you Assume  
Acute Low Back Pain: Be Careful what you Assume  

Understanding Pain, Part 1 One of my physical therapy professors concluded a lecture by emphatically stating that the biggest piece of career advice he would impart was to never assume anything. As we exited the […]
What’s Going on with Pain? NCCI’s Sinclair Looks at the Post-Opioid Landscape
What’s Going on with Pain? NCCI’s Sinclair Looks at the Post-Opioid Landscape

Orlando, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- By now, it's well-known that a major contributing factor to the opioid crisis has been pain management practices, but as the past 10 to 15 years have seen a decline in […]
5 Questions with NCCI’s Jon Sinclair on Opioids, AIS
5 Questions with NCCI’s Jon Sinclair on Opioids, AIS

NCCI's Annual Insights Symposium takes the stage next week, and we were lucky to borrow some time from Jon Sinclair, who will be presenting If Not Opioids, Then What? on May 14 at 10:45 a.m. EDT. Here's […]
FDA Approves Journavx as Safer Alternative to Opioids for Acute Pain Relief
FDA Approves Journavx as Safer Alternative to Opioids for Acute Pain Relief

By: Christina Klemm, Pharm.D., BCACP, Clinical Pharmacist, Enlyte The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Journavx (suzetrigine), a novel non-opioid medication developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals for the treatment of moderate to severe acute pain in […]
September was Pain Awareness Month: We are All in this Together  
September was Pain Awareness Month: We are All in this Together  

Although it is October, I wanted to remind everyone that September was Pain Awareness Month. Remembering these dedicated months allows us to reflect on conditions that impact the patients and families who are impacted by […]