April 24, 2025
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SAN DIEGO — Discovering methods to enhance the affected person expertise, in addition to growing entry to the suitable well being care suppliers, are key to addressing limitations to ache administration, in line with a speaker.
“There are social and emotional experiences related to the sensory expertise of ache,” Rena Courtney, PhD, a scientific psychologist at Virginia Tech’s Carilion Faculty of Drugs, mentioned on this Healio video from the American Academy of Neurology Annual Assembly. “Behavioral ache care performs an enormous function in complete ache administration.”
In keeping with Courtney, a number of efficient behavioral remedies can be found for acute ache, post-surgical ache inside a hospital and continual ache inside an outpatient setting.
These in want of behavioral ache care typically expertise obstacles to therapy, akin to points associated to transportation, stigma and lack of training about continual ache restoration, she mentioned. Nonetheless, technological developments in drugs akin to elevated availability of telehealth and digital therapeutics goal to shut these gaps and streamline a affected person’s journey.
“It’s an thrilling time to be within the subject as we proceed to discover totally different alternatives to lower limitations to look after behavioral ache drugs and the administration of continual ache,” Courtney added.
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Rena Courtney, PhD may be reached at renacourtney@vt.edu.
