This is a short transcript excerpt of a conversation (YouTube video) featuring Robert Whitfield MD and another speaker discussing patients' intense postoperative pain and functional limitations. The speakers emphasize recognizing patients' struggles and highlight counseling, nutrition, and mindset as important components of recovery and pain management.
But I just see this kind of ability of my patients to drive themselves and get up in the face of what I would consider to be physically daunting situations with fatigue and inflammation and pain, and sit there in front of me explaining this, but can't sit still. They have so much pain. They have to shift around. Yeah. All the time. And it's like, you know, it's going to if they sat in one position too long, that joint that's hurting them would get exquisitely painful, or they're having neurologic symptoms or something. You know, it's just the angst with which you see everybody react.
I believe the problem. I understand the problem very well. And, you know, whether it's our program, whether whether it's.
Counseling.
For nutrition or mindset or and we do speak about.
Mindset, because if you're not in.
The right mindset.
