Beverly is a middle-aged woman with pain in the roof of her mouth, tongue and occasionally sides of her mouth.
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Catherine: Chronic Pain with Multiple Co-Morbidities, Using Measurement-Based Tools
Catherine is a 46-year-old woman with Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP), obesity, poorly controlled diabetes with peripheral neuropathy, and ankle pain on high dose opioids for past 4 years.
Keywords: Anxiety, Back, Chronic, Depression, Diabetes, Joint, Middle Age, Musculoskeletal, Peripheral Neuropathies
Christine: Orofacial Pain
Christine is a 30-year-old woman referred by her local ENT doctor. She says she's experiencing excruciating pain in her jaw.
Keywords: Adult, Anxiety, Chronic, Craniofacial, Depression, Head/Neck
Edna: An Older Adult with Chronic Low Back Pain
Edna is a 70-year-old woman with chronic low back pain. After completing the course, you should be able to differentiate the weak link and the treatment targets in older adults with chronic low back pain, articulate realistic treatment expectations for chronic non-cancer pain, and describe a rational stepped care treatment approach for older patients with chronic low back pain.
Keywords: Anxiety, Back, Chronic, Depression, Musculoskeletal, Older Adult
Eric: Acute Pain Management in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
Eric is a 23-year-old man actively using IV heroin. He presents with right leg pain and swelling after injecting heroin into the muscle.
Keywords: Acute, Anxiety, Chronic, Depression, Musculoskeletal, Young Adult
Maeve: Ear Pain
Maeve, a 28-year-old female with limited access to dental care and no dental insurance, is seen with a chief complaint of right temporomandibular pain causing pain in the right ear.
Keywords: Acute, Anxiety, Depression, Head/Neck, Joint, Musculoskeletal, Young Adult
Marty: Perioperative Pain Management
Marty James is a 55-year-old African American female with a 10 year history of left knee pain.
Keywords: Acute, Anxiety, Chronic, Depression, Joint, Leg, Middle Age, Musculoskeletal, Post-Surgical
Mary: Pain in a Patient with Metastatic Cancer
Mary is a 74 year old woman with a history of breast cancer metastatic to the ribs, hypertension, and osteoarthritis. She complains of newly developed right-sided hip pain.
Keywords: Anxiety, Cancer/CancerTX, Chronic, Depression, Joint, Musculoskeletal, Older Adult
Melissa: Medication Overuse Headache
Recognizing medication overuse headache in patients presenting with chronic migraine. In this case study, we present a 39-year-old woman who has been experiencing near daily headache for the last 4 months and her successful treatment.
Keywords: Adult, Anxiety, Chronic, Craniofacial, Depression, Head/Neck, Neuropathic
Morgan: Adolescent Headache Case
This is a case of a fourteen year old girl with worsening headaches. The case covers four months, beginning with entries into her video diary ("vlog" or "video blog"). She explores several approaches to headache management in a series of encounters with health professionals.
Keywords: Acute, Adolescent, Anxiety, Chronic, Head/Neck, Neuropathic
Mr. Lane: Acute Farm Injury with Chronic Pain
This case presentation follows a 43-year-old farmer named Mr. Lane who injured his right arm after it got stuck in a combine. He was then air lifted to a tertiary care center. The case includes Mr. Lane's initial injury, acute pain, and the development of chronic pain and acute on chronic pain.
Keywords: Acute, Adult, Anxiety, Arm, Chronic, Depression, Neuropathic, Trauma
Mr. Wakefield: Wounded Warrier
Mr. Wakefield is a young Army veteran with chronic low back pain and depression. His physical exam demonstrates musculoskeletal pain and lumbar facet arthropathy (joint pain in his lower back).
Keywords: Adult, Anxiety, Chronic, Depression, Musculoskeletal, Rheumatic/Fibromyalgia
Mrs. Johnson: Geriatric Low Back Pain from the Perspective of the Medical Home Model
Mrs. Johnson is an 80-year-old obese woman with progressively incapacitating
low back pain for 1 year.
Keywords: Anxiety, Back, Chronic, Depression, Musculoskeletal, Older Adult, Sleep and Fatigue
Mrs. Wright: Opioid Conversion in Medically Complex Patients
The module follows Mrs. Wright, a 65-year-old woman with a past medical history that includes chronic low back pain, anxiety, hypertension, diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
Keywords: Acute, Anxiety, Diabetes, Hypertension, Leg, Older Adult, Post-Surgical
Mrs. Wright: Opioid Use Risk and Risk Mitigation
The module follows Mrs. Wright, a 65-year-old woman with a past medical history that includes chronic low back pain, anxiety, hypertension, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Mrs. Wright has been admitted to the hospital for repair of a broken ankle. You, the learner, will assist the orthopedic and pain teams with her care.
Keywords: Acute, Anxiety, Diabetes, Hypertension, Leg, Older Adult, Post-Surgical
Ms. Rhodes: Chronic Pelvic Pain
Ms. Rhodes is a 46-year-old woman with CPP: Stage IV endometriosis (cyclic component of pain treated with continuous oral contraceptives), abdominal and pelvic floor muscle pain, vestibulodynia, IBS with constipation, possible IC, anxiety and depression and sexual dysfunction.
Keywords: Anxiety, Chronic, Chronic Pelvic, Depression, Middle Age
Owen: Opioid Overdose Risk and Naloxone
Owen Jones is a 46-year-old man who presents for followup of low back pain with intermittent radicular symptoms and numbness which started ~ 2 years ago following a lifting related injury. He describes the pain as, "Sharp, pinching, and sore."
Keywords: Adult, Anxiety, Back, Chronic, Depression, Musculoskeletal
Pam: Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome
Pam is a 41-year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer approximately one year ago. Pam underwent treatment including a bilateral mastectomy and subsequent breast reconstruction. Now she is experiencing pain that she feels should be improving.
Keywords: Adult, Anxiety, Chest/Breast, Chronic, Neuropathic, Post-Surgical
Peter James: A Veteran with Phantom Limb Pain
Peter James is a 49-year-old veteran with phantom limb pain. While in the reserves he was injured by an IED in Afghanistan. His lower left leg was amputated at Walter Reed. He wants to better control his phantom limb pain so he can take on a farm management opportunity.
Keywords: Anxiety, Chronic, Depression, Leg, Middle Age, Neuropathic, Peripheral Neuropathies