Pain management Treatment Report

Category: Lifestyle Modifications

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What is Pain management?

An example of Pain management

In addition to medication adjustments and other therapies pain management may be helped with lifestyle changes such as eating a balanced diet, getting adequate sleep and appropriate exercise.

Reported Purpose & Perceived Effectiveness

Reasons and Perceived effectiveness
Perceived Effectiveness
Purpose # of patients # of patients with evaluations
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Chronic pain 28 5 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Pain 12 1 Efficacy_major
Back pain 9 1 Efficacy_major
Fibromyalgia 4 1 Efficacy_slight
Fatigue 2 1 Efficacy_moderate
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) 2 0

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
1
Moderate
3
Mild
1
None
4

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Pain management

Hospitalization 7
Constipation 2
Pain 1
Excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence) 1
Stiffness in legs 1
Back pain 1
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Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using Pain management (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Course of treatment ended 3   Course of treatment ended: 38%
Did not seem to work 2   Did not seem to work: 25%
Other 2   Other: 25%
Expense 1   Expense: 13%
Doctor's advice 1   Doctor's advice: 13%
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 13%

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Currently Using Pain management

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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Stopped Using Pain management

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Pain management

Always
4 44%
Usually
4 44%
Sometimes
1 11%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Pain management

Very
1 11%
Somewhat
4 44%
A little
2 22%
Not at all
2 22%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Pain management

$200+
1 20%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
1 20%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
3 60%

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2 patient evaluations for Pain management

Purpose: Chronic pain (Started Jan 30, 2011)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Dec 01, 2011 Monthly Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_efficacy_3Led_defaultModerate MildMildMildMildMild UsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsually SomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhat
Date
Dec 01, 2011
Advice & Tips
Was seeing a pain management Dr. He did epidural, Trigger point injection, Nothing seemed to work so Dr. wanted to do RFA =which is surgery killing the nerve that is causing the pain = My PCP wanted me to do Out patient (deep Tissue) before doing the surgery. Deep tissue therapy hurts really bad after doing it for a day to 3 days only go Tue and Thur
Cost
< $25 monthly
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Purpose: Chronic pain (Started Apr 01, 1993)
Date Dosage Perceived effectiveness Side Effects Adherence Burden
Feb 01, 2010 All the time (24/7) Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Led_efficacy_4Major ModerateModerateModerateModerateModerate UsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsuallyUsually SomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhatSomewhat
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7 additional evaluations for Pain management are not currently shared publicly.

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