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| Volume 5, Issue 1 | July 1999 |
PRACTICE
POINTS:
In chronic benign pain originating after soft tissue injury, causation is established by expert analysis of the pre-injury and post-injury medical records, not by examination of the client
Arguments between medical experts about the duration of healing from physical injury are irrelevant to chronic pain litigation
Components of Multidisciplinary Therapy
1. progressive muscular relaxation
2. goal setting
3. pacing
4. group cognitive therapy
5. pain education
.....a. physiology
.....b. pharmacology
6. progressive physiotherapy
Criteria for therapeutic success
1. improved mood
2. reduced catastrophising*
3. physical performance
4. overall function
5. use of drug treatment
*making mountains out of molehills
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| Chronic Pain 1998 (Personal Injury News) | Volume 5, Issue 1 |
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