PATH370 Week 7 Discussion (dq1+dq2) Latest 2020 August

PATH370 Pathophysiology

Week 7 Discussion

Complete your Week 7 required discussion prompts.

Discussion Prompt #1

Watch the Pain Management video series below. Have you used any of the treatments described on your patients? On yourself? Which of these have you found most effective in pain management? Please explain.

  Pain Management and Patient Care: Physical and Cognitive Treatment

1. Pain Management and Patient Care: Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches4:02

2. Pain Management and Patient Care: Cold Therapy1:54

3. Pain Management and Patient Care: Complimentary Pain Treatment1:42

4. Pain Management and Patient Care: Heat Therapy2:36

5. Pain Management and Patient Care: Immobilization0:41

6. Pain Management and Patient Care: Invasive and non-invasive therapy0:44

7. Pain Management and Patient Care: Massage Therapy0:59

8. Pain Management and Patient Care: Mobilization and Manipulation Therapies1:04

9. Pain Management and Patient Care: Non-invasive therapies0:25

10. Pain Management and Patient Care: Therapeutic Exercise1:06

11. Pain Management and Patient Care: Transcutaneous Eletrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)0:52

12. Pain Management and Patient Care: Vibration Therapy0:57

13. Pain Management and Patient Care: When and Where to Apply Hot and Cold Therapies1:19

  Pain Management and Patient Care: Medication Treatment

1. Pain Management and Patient Care: Adjuvant Medications6:06

2. Pain Management and Patient Care: Chronic Malignant Pain4:26

3. Pain Management and Patient Care: Chronic Nonmalignant Pain2:43

4. P ain Management and Patient Care: Classification of Pain2:48

5. Pain Management and Patient Care: Non-opioid Analgesics2:23

6. Pain Management and Patient Care: Opioid Analgesics4:12

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Discussion Prompt #2

Read the following article discussing the connection between childhood trauma, crime, and health. Share your thoughts and opinions on the matter as evidenced in your personal and/or professional life. Have you seen or suspected these correlations? Do you think this is an isolated occurrence? What are your thoughts on the approach to resolution that the doctor and her team have taken? Can you think of other interventions that might be worth pursuing? Share any other articles on the subject that you may have encountered.

A Sheriff And A Doctor Team Up To Map Childhood Trauma

This story is part of the NPR series, What Shapes Health? The series explores social and environmental factors that affect health throughout life.