NRP511 Week 7 | Pathology in Health Care - University of Phoenix

Question 6The patient responds “Nothing works” but does not seem to have tried anything you asked other than some over the counter (OTC) medication. Now that the patient’s condition is better evaluated, you begin to consider treatment options and recommendations. Review the following statements which will serve as the patient education you will deliver during the visit. Which 2 statements should not be included as part of your patient education? You may be suffering from spine pain secondary to degenerative disease. This is a chronic disease… NSAID have been shown to provide benefit in improving this pain, take as much as you need. The key to managing this type of disease is to engage in multi-modal treatment with the goal being to make slow steady progress. Opiates are not indicated in managing this kind of chronic disease. If you don’t improve after initial attempts at treatment, we may have you undergo further testing. Medications should be the only thing you need to make your pain go away. It is also possible you may have pain from rheumatological etiology. Should you fail to improve, we can consider consultation and further testing.