It’s no surprise that there is an increase in the use of narcotics and resultant addiction for injured workers in New York. The State WCB imposed Medical Treatment Guidelines that severely restricted palliative and passive/active therapies such as Chiropractic and Physical Therapy which, although they are arguably subject to some abuse by practitioners, posed no long term risk to the health of the patient and were far less costly than narcotics. We have a long term practice here in New York, representing paitients. It’s our observation that with the imposition of strict limitations on therapies, the referrals of patients to “pain clinics” and the concomitantuse of narcotics seems to have soared.
Get off the narcotics abuse. I suffer chronic pain more than likely because doctors were too afraid to prescribe the appropriate pain killers that might have prevented a chronic condition.
It’s no surprise that there is an increase in the use of narcotics and resultant addiction for injured workers in New York. The State WCB imposed Medical Treatment Guidelines that severely restricted palliative and passive/active therapies such as Chiropractic and Physical Therapy which, although they are arguably subject to some abuse by practitioners, posed no long term risk to the health of the patient and were far less costly than narcotics. We have a long term practice here in New York, representing paitients. It’s our observation that with the imposition of strict limitations on therapies, the referrals of patients to “pain clinics” and the concomitantuse of narcotics seems to have soared.
Get off the narcotics abuse. I suffer chronic pain more than likely because doctors were too afraid to prescribe the appropriate pain killers that might have prevented a chronic condition.