Pain, Pills and the PRC:  Non-Opioid Treatment for Chronic Pain

Jeannie A. Sperry, Ph.D., L.P.

Introduction

Jeannie A. Sperry, PhD, LP is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, Co-Chair of Addictions, Pain, and Transplant, and Clinical Health Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic. For over two decades, she has worked in academic settings training health care providers in the interdisciplinary care of chronic pain and prevention of pain-related disability. Her research interests focus on communication skills for physicians and evidence-based practices for chronic pain.  Her work at Mayo is in the Pain Rehabilitation Center where patients are tapered off of opioids and instructed in self-management techniques for chronic pain. 

Learning Objectives

• Discuss Evidence-Based treatment of chronic pain

• Define the functional restoration approach to chronic pain care

• Review the approach of the Pain Rehab Center's interdisciplinary treatment program for weaning off opioids and teaching self-management skills

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Credit Statements

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Industry Acknowledgment (if applicable): None.

Disclosure Summary

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Speaker:  Jeannie A. Sperry, Ph.D., L.P.

Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry: 

None

No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:

Brian Palmer, M.D., Michael Bostwick, M.D., Karen Grothe, Ph.D., Lois Krahn, M.D., Jarrod Leffler, Ph.D., Larissa Loukianova, M.D., Mary Machulda, Ph.D., Patricia Maus, M.D., Amber Pearson, Jeffrey Staab, M.D., Cosima Swintak, M.D., Kristin Vickers Douglas, Ph.D., Cynthia Harbeck-Weber, Ph.D., Michael Zaccariello, Ph.D., Georgina Rink, Charlene Nelson

Speaker: Jeannie A. Sperry, Ph.D., L.P.

References to off-label usage(s) of pharmaceuticals or instruments in their presentation:

None

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