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Mindfulness-Based and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies: A Qualitative Study on What Helps Opioid-Treated Chronic Low Back Pain [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

The present study reports on the findings from one-year follow-up qualitative data collected to better understand the interventions’ effects. Outcome Measures Open-ended scripted questions on the interventions’ impact on pain, function, mental and physical health QoL, and opioid use.

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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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Your Least Favorite Emotion, and What to Do with It.

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

This brings me into the present instead of in the immediate future or past and is calming and focusing. Allow It to Be Present Instead of avoiding, lean into the feeling. Physicians often neglect their own mental health for a variety of reasons, tuning in late to the need is just one factor. Focused breathing exercises.

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Adolescent Medicine: Helping Your Teens Thrive

Family Physicians of Greeley

Adolescent medicine is a sub-specialty of family medicine and pediatrics, that focuses on the health issues of youths from ages 9 through 23. At times, the healthcare that many of these youths receive begins and ends with their yearly sports physical.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. You started off as a physician, right? LaVera: Yes.

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