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Hypnotically Enhanced Addictions Treatment

Clinical
Oct 21, 2019
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As a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pain Society, I want to share with the membership a recent workshop I presented to the Canadian Federation of Clinical Hypnosis in Banff, Canada.  The workshop was titled “Hypnotically Enhanced Addictions Treatment: Drug Abuse, Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, Gambling Addiction, Smoking Cessation, and Obesity, with a Focus on Drug Dependence during this Opioid Crisis.”

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Helping Patients Get Their Life Back Through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

News
Jun 26, 2019
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“I just want my life back, I want to feel like me again”. This is a common refrain in our work as pain psychologists. Too often individuals with chronic pain feel as though their lives have fundamentally changed from ones defined by activity and engagement in a meaningful life to ones full of limitations, isolation, and feelings of loss.

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Gender Disparities in Pain and Pain Care

News
Jun 26, 2019
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In a widely-shared article published in the Atlantic in 2015, titled “How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously,” author Joe Fassler tells of his wife Rachel’s visit to the ER after she is suddenly stricken with excruciating abdominal pain, later revealed to be a life-threatening ovarian torsion. . The article tells of their agonizing 14-hour wait in the ER while Rachel’s pain is dismissed, undertreated, and misdiagnosed.

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Ajovy and Emgality: Efficacy and Side Effects

News
Jun 26, 2019
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All patients had the diagnosis of chronic migraine. Almost all patients had utilized Botox for their chronic migraine. Each patient had utilized at least 3 preventive medications in the past. Many of these patients remained on a daily preventive. Approximately 60% of the patients were considered to have refractory chronic migraine.

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President’s Message, July 2019

Policy
Jun 26, 2019
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As a result of the opioid crisis, during the last few years we have faced many changes that we never expected. Patients and families have been devastated. Some are dealing with Opioid Use Disorder, while others are dealing with pain and withdrawal after abruptly stopping prescription opioids. Shocking are notes posted on physician’s doors stating: “We do not prescribe opioids.”

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President’s Message on the American Pain Society

News
Jun 10, 2019
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The members of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pain Society were saddened to read about the possible need for the American Pain Society to cease operations.  We have long appreciated the scientific contributions and clinical guidelines for pain management made by the APS. 

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President’s Message, April 2019

News
Apr 5, 2019
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Thinking about our coming Annual Meeting, I’m reminded of the complexity of the challenges we face. Along with the attention the opioid crisis is receiving, those of us working daily with patients living with pain know that for many of them there is a simultaneous pain crisis.  As pain professionals we have a responsibility to help to “clean up” what many consider to be  “the mess” that resulted from the opioid crisis and now the consequential pain crisis.

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Self Compassion

News
Apr 5, 2019
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In this third of a series of writings about compassion and pain management, this article focuses on self-compassion.  The premise is that it is essential for health care providers to have compassion for self as the foundation to empathically and compassionately care for patients, while promoting compassionate satisfaction and preventing compassion fatigue.Self-compassion is connecting care and support for self during times of personal suffering.

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Chronic Migraine: 6 Months of Therapy with Erenumab (Aimovig)

News
Mar 27, 2019
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Migraine is a relatively common illness, affecting 12% of the population. Chronic migraine (CM) is a frequently encountered subset of migraine, and presents certain difficulties in treatment. Those with CM have at least 15 headache days per month, with at least 8 days being migrainous in nature. Many do not do well with the usual preventive approaches, and suffer from refractory chronic migraine (RCM).

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Recruiting: Pain Psychologist Behavioral Medicine Institute

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Feb 4, 2019
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Behavioral Medicine Institute (BMI) is a 20+ member, multi-specialty group practice based in Knoxville with a long-established referral base and innovative practice models including embedded clinicians in local medical practices. We are currently seeking a skilled and motivated clinician to add to our team of psychologists working embedded in a local, anesthesiology-based pain center which has received a Center of Excellence award from the American Pain Society. The opportunity is full time, we offer a supportive, collegial atmosphere…

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