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What's your Pain IQ?

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* 1. What percent of all physician visits are for pain?

50%

100%

80%

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* 2. A medical study in Scotland found that the “best bio-mechanical sitting position” is at what degree body-thigh sitting posture?

180% (lying down)

90% (sitting upright)

135% (reclined)

80% (leaning forward)

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* 3. Which of the following terms can be used to describe chronic pain?

Condition

Illness

Syndrome

All of the above

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* 4. A 2018 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded what about the relationship between opioid medication and treating back pain?

Opioids help pain in about 50% of cases

Opioids always help pain

Opioids did not help pain any better than did non-opioid medication therapy

Opioids never help pain

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* 5. Chronic pain health care in the US has been estimated to cost how much per year?

$100 million

$20 billion

$1 million

$500 million

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* 6. Chronic pain usually resolves itself over time.

True

False

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* 7. What is the number one cause of disability in workers 45 years old and younger?

Knee pain

Low back pain

Neck pain

Migraine headaches

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* 8. Medical professionals can usually find the cause of low back pain.

True

False

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* 9. Pain affects workers’ job performance.

True

False

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* 10. Which of the following celebrities have been hospitalized for severe back pain?

George Clooney

Burt Reynolds

Jerry Lewis

Elizabeth Taylor

All of the above

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* 11. Which of these celebrities struggle with severe chronic pain that affects their lives and careers?

Melanie Griffith

Paula Abdul

Selena Gomez

Lady Gaga

All of the above

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* 12. Why is Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) a particularly challenging form of chronic pain?

FMS is generally resistant to medical treatment

FMS is rarely connected to a specific physical injury

FMS is invisible

All of the above

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* 13. What percentage of adults is diagnosed with Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS)?

12%

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* 14. According to research, do women or men suffer more from chronic pain?

Men

Women

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* 15. Does pain differ from culture to culture?

Yes

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* 16. When is pain considered to be chronic?

Continues with or without visible physical injury

When there is no clearly identifiable cause

Lasts longer than six months

All of the above

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* 17. Chronic pain patients can always distinguish between their pain and their need for medication.

True

False

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* 18. Are employees with chronic pain protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?

Yes

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* 19. According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emergency room visits for opioid overdoses climbed what percent between July ’16 and Sept. ’17?

20%

30%

60%

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* 20. Physician Clayton Dalton (Massachusetts General Hospital) recently published an article that discussed:

Surgical patients randomized to receive higher doses of opioids had worse pain afterward than patients who received smaller doses or a placebo.

In a 4-month study measuring patients with back pain using oral morphine, “the patients had become significantly more sensitive to pain by the study's end.”

An English physician in 1870 reported on morphine's tendency to "encourage the very pain it pretends to relieve."

All of the above