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An Evaluation Of The Treatment Modality And Management Of Acute And Chronic Low Back Pain Individuals In Rural Southeast Kansas, Michele R. Carey
An Evaluation Of The Treatment Modality And Management Of Acute And Chronic Low Back Pain Individuals In Rural Southeast Kansas, Michele R. Carey
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Roughly 25 million American adults experience pain, and 23 million others withstand severe assiduous pain that is disabling and results in decrease work productivity, loss of quality of life and diminished health (Meldrum, 2016). Treatment of pain, including chronic and acute low back pain includes a multidisciplinary approach merging cognitive-behavioral, psychological and physical therapies, respite, pain coping management and self-hypnosis (Meldrum, 2016). In 1999, pharmaceutical companies reassured physicians that opioid pain relievers were not addictive, and the prescribing rate began to increase (NIH, 2017). The quantity of opioids being prescribed has quadrupled since 1999 which has led to an increase …