{"id":196293,"date":"2023-03-21T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=196293"},"modified":"2023-03-20T16:15:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T20:15:39","slug":"podcast-alternatives-to-opioids-in-pain-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/03\/podcast-alternatives-to-opioids-in-pain-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Alternatives to Opioids in Pain Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know, four in five of us will experience some type of back or neck pain sometime in our lives? While narcotics are an option for managing pain, they&#8217;re certainly not the only option. <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Walker-Joseph\">Dr. Joseph Walker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Sakalkale-Durgadas\">Dr. Durgadas Sakalkale<\/a>, two physiatrists in the <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/musculoskeletal-institute\/\">UConn Musculoskeletal Institute<\/a>, explain that there are several categories of pain, each with its own set of approaches to manage. The solutions are individualized, and narcotics are not on the table as a general practice.<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\"><blockquote>\n  <p>A lot of times we\u2019re not going to use an opiate medication to treat their chronic lower back pain or subacute lower back pain. <cite> &#8212 Dr. Joseph Walker<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<p>Walker and Sakalkale were the guests on the <em>UConn Health Pulse<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WNqeCxw4V0\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/alternatives-to-opioids-in-pain-management\">Alternatives to Opioids in Pain Management<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Alternatives to Opioids in Pain Management&#8221; &#8212; UConn Health\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/alternatives-to-opioids-in-pain-management\/embed#?secret=LyYkVqsEYP#?secret=WNqeCxw4V0\" data-secret=\"WNqeCxw4V0\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to pain management, particularly back and neck pain, UConn Health physiatrists have many approaches ahead of narcotics on their list of options<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2284,2231,2287,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-196293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-spine-institute","category-health-well-being","category-orthopedics","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 09:47:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196296,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196293\/revisions\/196296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196293"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=196293"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=196293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}