Session 022002 - Simon Simonsen part 2
Session 022002 - Simon Simonsen part 2
In Session 022002 with Simon Simonsen shares another chronic pain patient. Simon fields a 46 year old female patient presented to him who presented with back and leg pain with two previous lumbar surgeries. He highlights many patient care considerations for this population of patients from history taking, to interpretation of their comments to physical exam considerations and even some resources for patients who worry and who’s sleep is disrupted due to worrying.
Among other aspects of the case Simon shares insights on:
goal setting with chronic pain patients
the importance of identifying the exact interventions that have been tried and whether or not there was any value to them
the care needed in giving the patient the proper expectation to their prognosis
using the central sensitization inventory outcome tool
more on latency of symptoms
handling the patient who’s been told “it’s all in your head” and those who’s symptoms appear due to yellow flags
how best to handle the patients who describe their pain as a 20 on a 0-10 scale