Great post! I always learned a lot from reading your discussion.
Opioid analgesics are usually a part of pharmacologic treatment for patients living with chronic pain. What do you think are the long-term benefits of using this particular medication for these patients?
An opioid is a kind of analgesic medicine that relieves moderate to severe pain. It is very prevalent due to its effectiveness, and it has been used to manage acute to a chronic type of pain. However, treating chronic pain with this drug is a challenged due to the subjective characteristics and multifactorial nature of this condition.
Chou et al. (2015, p. 276) define long-term opioid therapy as a treatment for more than three months; it is complex and requires one on one risk-benefit evaluation. After probing into related research, I found that it truly has more disadvantages versus advantages. According to Arnold, Childers, Abrahm, Saxon, & Savarese (2015, p. 1), acute pain experienced by chronic opioid patients could be related to new injury or development of opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH). Prescribing Opioid analgesics for this type of patients can be tricky; it can, nevertheless, be accomplish using short-acting opioids to cover the acute pain.
Additionally, Rosenquist, Aronson, & Park (2016, p. 5) asserted that it …show more content…
But this has been contested in a research by
In the final analysis, there is no proven positive benefit of long-term opioid use. Adverse effects are strongly supported in research.More studies are needed to justify the positive benefits of this type of therapy, to ensure patient safety and meaningful outcome.
Sincerely,
Question:
What kind of physical therapy intervention have you used to wean your chronic pain patient from opioid
Opioid analgesics are usually a part of pharmacologic treatment for patients living with chronic pain. What do you think are the long-term benefits of using this particular medication for these patients?
An opioid is a kind of analgesic medicine that relieves moderate to severe pain. It is very prevalent due to its effectiveness, and it has been used to manage acute to a chronic type of pain. However, treating chronic pain with this drug is a challenged due to the subjective characteristics and multifactorial nature of this condition.
Chou et al. (2015, p. 276) define long-term opioid therapy as a treatment for more than three months; it is complex and requires one on one risk-benefit evaluation. After probing into related research, I found that it truly has more disadvantages versus advantages. According to Arnold, Childers, Abrahm, Saxon, & Savarese (2015, p. 1), acute pain experienced by chronic opioid patients could be related to new injury or development of opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH). Prescribing Opioid analgesics for this type of patients can be tricky; it can, nevertheless, be accomplish using short-acting opioids to cover the acute pain.
Additionally, Rosenquist, Aronson, & Park (2016, p. 5) asserted that it …show more content…
But this has been contested in a research by
In the final analysis, there is no proven positive benefit of long-term opioid use. Adverse effects are strongly supported in research.More studies are needed to justify the positive benefits of this type of therapy, to ensure patient safety and meaningful outcome.
Sincerely,
Question:
What kind of physical therapy intervention have you used to wean your chronic pain patient from opioid