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If you have low back pain try these steps first
Low back pain, the scourge of mankind: it is the second leading cause of disability here in the United States, and the fourth worldwide. It’s also one of the top five medical problems for which people see doctors. Almost every day that I see patients, I see someone with back pain. It’s one of the top reasons for lost wages due to missed work, as well as for healthcare dollars spent, hence, a very expensive problem. Looking at two kinds of back pain Let’s talk about the most common forms of back pain: acute (which lasts less than four weeks) and subacute (which lasts four to 12 weeks). Most of these cases (approximate...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Back Pain Managing your health care Pain Management Source Type: blogs

When Is the Best Time to Start Hospice Care?
Hospice provides compassionate care for people facing a end of life illnesses or injury.Hospices use a team-oriented approach to medical care, and pain management. Hospice care also provides emotional and spiritual support tailored to the needs of both patient and family caregiver.Many people think of hospice care as something provided to people who have terminal cancer or another such illness.Hospice can also be immensely helpful for people living with Alzheimer ’s.Is Hospice Care an After Thought in Dementia Care?By Marie MarleyAlzheimer's Reading RoomHospice care is designed to improvequality of life for the person wi...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - March 31, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's awareness alzheimer's care Alzheimer's Dementia alzheimers hospice dementia hospice end of life care Hospice Care hospice care definition hospice services what does hospice care man Source Type: blogs

An open letter to Psychological Medicine, again!
In conclusion, noted Wilshire et al., “the claim that patients can recover as a result of CBT and GET is not justified by the data, and is highly misleading to clinicians and patients considering these treatments.” In short, the PACE trial had null results for recovery, according to the protocol definition selected by the authors themselves. Besides the inflated recovery results reported in Psychological Medicine, the study suffered from a host of other problems, including the following: *In a paradox, the revised recovery thresholds for physical function and fatigue–two of the four recovery measures–were so lax ...
Source: virology blog - March 23, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Commentary Information adaptive pacing therapy CFS chronic fatigue syndrome clinical trial cognitive behavior therapy Dave Tuller exercise graded exercise therapy mecfs myalgic encephalomyelitis outcome PACE trial recovery Source Type: blogs

WIRED Health 2017 London: Looking Into The Future of Healthcare
Last week WIRED Health gathered hundreds of leaders and influencers from across the globe in London to discuss the field of health innovation and technology. In addition to their long lists of honors and historic accolades, the unrivaled lineup of s...
Source: Medgadget - March 16, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs

Is central sensitisation really a thing?
It seems odd to me that there’s much argument about central sensitisation in pain circles. I thought the idea of central sensitisation was well-established based on research from some years ago – but apparently there are still arguments about its relevance, and lots of debate about how to identify it clinically. This post is based mainly on a presentation by Jo Nijs from Pain in Motion, at the recent NZ Pain Society meeting in Nelson. In this post I want to briefly review the material presented by Jo suggesting that central sensitisation is a thing. I’ll write more about assessment in a future blog, or th...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 12, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Pain conditions Research Science in practice biopsychosocial Health Source Type: blogs

Whose Costs? Who Benefits? - A Close Reading of a Hospital System CEO ' s Prescription for Controlling Health Care Costs
The attempt to " repeal and replace " the Affordable Care Act has suddenly made health care dysfunction a hot topic in the US. For example, today, in my local paper, the Providence Journal, Dr Timothy J Bainbeau, the CEO of the Lifespan Health System,  the biggest regional health systemweighed in on the problem of high and increasing health care costs.  A close reading of his commentary suggests how the leadership of big US health care organizations needs to think about whether their actions have become more of the problem than a source of solutions.The CEO ' s Diagnosis and Prescription Dr Babineau beg...
Source: Health Care Renewal - March 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: CEO disease executive compensation market fundamentalism neoliberalism perverse incentives Source Type: blogs

AI Entering the Clinical Workflow: Watson Health Aims to Streamline Diagnosis with New Imaging Clinical Review
At the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, Watson Health introduced IBM Watson Imaging Clinical Review, a cognitive “peer-review”resource that eliminates discrepancies between a patient ’s clinical diagnosis and administrative records. The new system streamlines reports and ultimately improves the accuracy in a patient’s record. The software company also announced the expansion of their medical imaging collaborative to 24 international organizations. Their services detect, iden tify, and predict the risk of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and eye, brain, and heart con...
Source: radRounds - March 3, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

Some medications don ’ t help back pain as much as we thought
This study found that NSAIDs don’t work as well for back pain as many people think. However, it is not true (as stated by some headlines about this study) that NSAIDs were not effective at all. Some people did improve with these medications. The trick is figuring out in advance who is most likely to get better with NSAID therapy. We can’t yet do that very well. Here’s my suggestion: if you take an NSAID for spinal pain (or just about any other pain), keep track of how you’re feeling. A “pain diary” is one way to do this. If you aren’t clearly better in a week or two, talk to your doctor about adjusting the do...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Back Pain Drugs and Supplements Pain Management Source Type: blogs

Ultrasound Therapy for Musculoskeletal Injuries: A Medgadget Interview with Michael Slayton, CEO of Guided Therapy Systems
Guided Therapy Systems (GTS), a company based in Mesa, Arizona, is at the forefront of ultrasonic therapy and imaging. Founded in 1994, GTS is the first company in the world that commercialized the combined use of ultrasound imaging with intense ther...
Source: Medgadget - February 16, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Rukmani Sridharan Tags: Exclusive Medicine Orthopedic Surgery Pain Source Type: blogs

Gaming the System
This post was originally published by  The Health Care Blog  on February 11.  As physicians ready themselves for the future of medicine under onerous MACRA regulations, it seems appropriate to glance into the future and visualize the medical utopia anticipated by so many.  Value-based care, determined by statistical analysis, is going to replace fee for service. Six months ago, I received my first set of statistics from a state Medicaid plan and was told my ER utilization numbers were on the higher end compared to most practices in the region.  This was perplexing as my patients tend to avoid ER visits at all cost...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Medicaid Source Type: blogs

How Shared Decision Making In The Emergency Department Can Improve Value
More than 8 million U.S. emergency departments (ED) visits are from patients with chest pain, which is the second most common reason to visit an ED. Standard protocol is to screen patients presenting with chest pain for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) — in other words, to determine if they are having a heart attack. If the patient is having a heart attack, he or she is admitted to the hospital for further observation and testing. But the initial tests used to determine whether a patient is having a heart attack when they come to the ED miss 1.5 percent of patients with ACS. Because of this uncertainty, clinicians often...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Edward Melnick and Erik Hess Tags: Costs and Spending Hospitals Innovations in Care Delivery Organization and Delivery Quality Chest Pain Choice Emergency departments Emergency Medicine Health Care Delivery Shared-Decision Making value based care value-based Source Type: blogs

The Difference With A Good Doctor
This morning I had a wonderful experience having injections in my spine around T8 and T9 where I have a couple of desiccated discs. (Apparently I did something to my back in the previous years - my money is on the time I knocked the wind out of myself in front of the upper ski lodge with a deck full of skiers.) Desiccated discs are common in older adults (70+). Once again I am proving I am less healthy than most people 20 years old than me.Today my new pain management doctor did the procedure. He was nice and talked to me first. Then he asked me during the procedure if I could feel anything and he would add more pain meds....
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 6, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: back pain doctors medical adventures pain management Source Type: blogs

How States Can Expand Access To Palliative Care
Conclusion The policies discussed in this Blog post are intended to serve as a framework for policymakers and other stakeholders interested in doing more to support palliative care in their states. Here are a few considerations for those interested in exploring potential options: None of the policies and initiatives described above would have been possible without efforts from key stakeholders such as the state hospice and palliative care associations, and local funders, researchers, and advocates. Champions such as Colorado’s Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC), the Coalition for Compassionate Care of Cal...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 30, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Stacie Sinclair and Diane Meier Tags: End of Life & Serious Illness Long-term Services and Supports Medicaid and CHIP Payment Policy Quality California End-of-Life Care Palliative Care States Source Type: blogs

The Introvert ’s Weekend: 6 Tips for Enjoying It Your Way
You're reading The Introvert’s Weekend: 6 Tips for Enjoying It Your Way, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. “When you honor your body, mind and spirit you are saying to the universe, ‘I love you’” –Panache Desai Most of us look forward to the weekend. Whether it’s for sleeping in late, catching up with friends, spending time with family or enjoying the occasional getaway, the weekend breaks up the routine of the work week and reminds us that life is more than just toil. For those of us who ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Summer Edward Tags: featured happiness self confidence best confidence blogs how to relax introversion introvert introverts pickthebrain relaxation tips self improvement the weekend weekend plans Source Type: blogs