This presentation aims to identify the current pitfalls in the United States healthcare model when treating chronic pain due to obesity in the inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings, and to replace them with sustainable solutions in the fields of nutrition, physical rehabilitation, wellness and pharmacotherapy. By creating a system to identify eligible patients in the inpatient setting, implementing the aforementioned sustainable solutions, and coordinating patients to an outpatient provider for long-term follow-up, this may reduce hospital admissions, improve chronic pain, reduce opioid utilization, and improve patient quality of life.
Learning Objectives:
Explain the rising correlation between degenerative joint disease, obesity, and chronic pain in the United States
Compare the current pitfalls of the healthcare model for chronic pain due to obesity and introduce a new hybrid model of inpatient and outpatient management
Identify non-pharmacologic ways to combat the obesity crisis and treat/prevent chronic pain with sustainable solutions in nutrition, physical rehabilitation, and wellness
Describe the role of a pharmacist in creating and implementing an interdisciplinary program for weight loss in patients prescribed glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) agonists
