Anaes Vivas · Chronic & cancer pain
Clinical viva — the multidisciplinary biopsychosocial management
A clinical viva on the chronic-pain management — the biopsychosocial assessment, the pharmacology (the opioid-sparing, the adjuvants), the interventional (the selected, the trial), the psychological (the CBT, the ACT), the physical (the exercise, the graded activity), and the goal of the function over the complete relief.
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Prompt
A junior colleague asks how you manage a patient with the chronic low-back pain. Walk them through the multidisciplinary biopsychosocial approach.
Stimulus
A junior colleague asks how you manage a patient with the chronic low-back pain (the 2-year duration, the failed back surgery, the opioid use, the depression, the work loss). Walk them through the multidisciplinary biopsychosocial approach.
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