Chronic pain

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Improving Chronic Pain Management in Prisons and Jails (Part 2 of 2)

Even though chronic pain management in a correctional environment is challenging, standard of care in correctional practice is that chronic pain must be responsibly managed and treated.  To do so requires the following components: The physician has to take an appropriate history, perform an examination, order indicated diagnostic testing, and involve specialist consultation as needed …

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improving chronic pain management

Improving Chronic Pain Management in Prisons and Jails (Part 1 of 2)

Whether the location is a state prison or a local county jail, complaints of pain are extraordinarily common for physicians to encounter in clinical practice at a correctional facility. Pain is not like blood pressure or weight which can be easily measured.  Pain is subjective and there is no test a physician can order to …

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