"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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