What are effective strategies for building rapport with clients who have chronic pain?

Research shows patients with chronic pain claim that clinician empathy helps them feel understood, believed, taken seriously, and that their needs are met. Exhibiting empathy and engaging in empathic interactions with patients, healthcare providers relate better to patients, better understand their life experience, and provide patient-centered care that is meaningful for patients, providers, and the health care systems within which they interact. Clinician empathy is a well-documented component of effective patient/provider communication. Showing attentiveness allows clinicians catch subtle nuances and details in patient's experiences, leading to more accurate diagnoses and tailored treatment plans.

Developed integrative pain management for a large value based care - showing about 70% effectiveness, reduced pain more than 33% and showed p value of 0.00001. Calculated savings was about 6 - 8 million dollars per year (in population of 30k - clinic population of 400) 1. Understand they have seen "many experts" and no longer trust you or see you as an expert. 2. If they understand you understand their suffering you are 1/2 way there (I recovered from severe chronic pain) 3. Provide immediate effective pain relief - this builds trust and credibility. 4. Provide credible plan and follow through.

To be Empathetic is also a very "Skill-full" psychometric process. Psychotherapeutic Approach is a fast technique; and sometimes it's the only way to be Empathetic. However, a physician can use it to make a rapid Rapport with the patients having Chronic Pain.

Listening to understand versus listening to give a response is vital to understanding the client's experience with chronic pain. This promotes a therapeutic exchange that allows the provider/clinician to understand what is occurring with clients entirely and will enable clients to verbalize their chronic pain experience freely.

Building rapport with clients who have chronic pain can be a complex and delicate process, as it involves understanding their unique experiences and needs. Some evidence-based strategies that can help are Patient-centred communication: Active listening, empathy, and understanding are crucial. Use open-ended questions to encourage clients to express their feelings, fears, and expectations. One of the most important things to remember is to avoid making assumptions or jumping to conclusions.

Its important not to underestimate the patients' description of the pain. You cannot perceive the pain to understand how they are feeling therefore it is important to validate the pain they describe to you as real and console them to that effect.

I combine purified and structured water, with PEMF, a heated earthgrounding mat & Acupuncture. Pain relief is pretty instantaneous. Its relieving involuntary muscle spasm in the most stubborn of cases. Knowing pain can change initially is the biggest encouragement. proofs in the pudding.

In my experience (with over 10,000 pain cases/patients) the best way to build rapport with a “pain patient” is to explain simply about the cause of their pain (excess/blocked energy in an area of the body caused by their brain/body stuck in Survival mode from emotional stress, negativity and trauma). Then resolve these causes succinctly. My success rate is in the high 90 percentile. Patients typically feel improvement within the first day or two of care.

Critical to know that the attention we put on pain increases the intensity of the pain (pain volume), and the mood that we're in and feelings we have about the pain change how we experience it (pain quality). Both are modifiable! Pain is a biopsychosocial experience.