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Hello. My name is Ravi Prasad.
I'm a clinical professor and
Director of Behavioral Health
at the University of California
Davis School of Medicine
in Sacramento, California.
I'm going to be speaking
about pain chronification
and the distinction between
acute and chronic pain.
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I have just one disclosure.
I'm on the advisory
board of Menda Health.
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For this presentation,
there are three
primary objectives.
Number one, to articulate the
psychosocial risk factors
associated with
chronification of pain.
Number two, to identify the differences
between acute and chronic pain.
And number three,
delineate the components
of interdisciplinary
headache management.
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But I want to start by
putting pain in context.
The US Department of Health and
Human Services estimates that
roughly one-fifth of the US
population has chronic pain.
Of these individuals,
approximately 36.4% have what's
called high-impact chronic pain.
High-impact chronic pain is pain that
results in significant impairment
in at least one domain
in a person's life,
and has persisted for
at least three months.
Chronic pain tends to be
most prevalent in women,
individuals over the age of 65,
and non-Hispanic white adults.
Pain also tends to be more
prevalent in rural areas.
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But what causes pain?
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We understand that there's a wide
range of different risk factors
for the development
of chronic pain,
particularly headaches,
and we can divide these into
several large categories.
First, there's
biological factors,
which includes things such
as gender and genetics.
The second is lifestyle
variables, such as substances.
For example, caffeine
and medication overuse.
Other lifestyle variables are things
like sleep or activity patterns.
And finally, there are
psychosocial variables,
which is what I will be elaborating
upon in the next several slides.
The common psychosocial risk
factors associated with
