Pain is a complex condition. The risk of both acute and chronic pain is affected by many factors, including age, race, sex, income, education, urban/rural living, and other demographic factors. Even though chronic pain shares many attributes with other chronic conditions, it has some unique characteristics. One unique characteristic is that pain remains a subjective experience.…
Category: Chronic Pain Management
How Maria tamed her chronic back pain?
“I couldn’t get up for 10 minutes,” Maria remembers. She was at the end of her 12-hour shift. May be muscle sprain, she first thought. Just 4 days later, this sprain had turned into debilitating back pain. Maria is a nurse working in a pediatric intensive care unit. It is true that nurses do some…
Breaking down barriers to MSK care for BIPOC workers
The world has disproportionally changed in the last 6 months. While the impact of Covid-19 has been felt everywhere in the US, the fallout from the pandemic clearly shows that some segments of our society, in particular, BIPOC communities have felt a disproportionate share of the disruption—from mortality to unemployment. BIPOC stands for Black,…