Shifting to Telehealth
By Susan Chamberlain, Project Manager/Privacy Officer, Pacific Rehabilitation Centers, Bellevue, WA Originally published in the CARF International Medical Rehab Connection, December 2020. Pacific Rehabilitation Centers has been providing CARF-accredited...
Chronic Pain Medications: Dangers and Alternatives
Chronic pain is an unfortunate reality that affects all too many people, and finding respite and reprieve from it as quickly as possible is often the name of the game. Quite frankly, it’s understandable. Who wants to wait for relief? Therein lies the rub. While pain...
How to Get Family to Understand Chronic Pain
You can’t see pain. You can’t touch it. Most frustratingly you can’t easily explain chronic pain. But you can feel it. That’s the thing, no matter what happens and no matter how little it’s understood by those closest to you, the pain itself doesn’t go away. This...
How I Found a Cure for Struggling
Mindfulness and meditation practices offer us many benefits. One that I’ve recently discovered is the ability to create a time each day that I’m free from expectations or struggling. I’ll explain, but first I have to address the struggle. It is that tension between...
How to Find a Therapist
All people could benefit from therapy at some point. I started back in therapy a couple of months ago. I needed someone to help me sort through the stress I have been feeling. Yes, even psychologists and licensed professional counselors go to therapy. So whether it’s...
The Relationship between Chronic pain and the Weather
Living in the Pacific NW is great. As one of the most beautiful areas in the United States or maybe even, the world, we are surrounded by snow-covered mountains, Puget Sound, Lake Washington, Lake Union and everything is green. When my cousin comes to visit, he always...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – the Most Effective Treatment for Chronic Pain
One in three Americans suffer from chronic pain and it usually takes three to six months to diagnose the condition, so many physicians overlook the symptoms. Once diagnosed, the treatment of choice by many physicians for the last 25 year has been opioids, but recently...
Sleep Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The restrictions of a stay-at-home order as created a variety of issues for Washingtonians. Our focus has been to remain healthy and sleep is a huge part of the equation. Our immune system requires sleep and is critical to our physical well-being. It’s also a key...