{"id":776,"date":"2016-04-13T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitpt.fitbux.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2020-06-30T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T19:24:12","slug":"your-thoughts-on-opioids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitbux.com\/fitpt\/misc\/your-thoughts-on-opioids\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Thoughts On Opioids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-776\" class=\"panel-layout\">\n<div id=\"pg-776-0\" class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;,&quot;row_stretch&quot;:&quot;full-stretched&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-776-0\" data-stretch-type=\"full-stretched\">\n<div id=\"pgc-776-0-0\" class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" data-weight=\"0.14815475879003\"><em>By Joseph Reinke, CFA, Founder of FitBUX<\/em><\/div>\n<div id=\"pgc-776-0-1\" class=\"panel-grid-cell\" data-weight=\"0.52932892503911\">\n<div id=\"panel-776-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<p>In March, the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/rr\/rr6501e1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain.<\/a>\u00a0 I am not a physical therapist but I have very strong feelings about the use of opioids.\u00a0 At age 17, I hurt my shoulder playing baseball while diving for a ball in the outfield.\u00a0 I was diagnosed with a shoulder impingement and the first thing the doctor did was write a prescription for opioids.\u00a0 Long-story short, I played three more years of sports (baseball and ice hockey) and constant complaints to the doctor about the pain.\u00a0 The solution, more opioids.\u00a0 I finally met a doctor that wanted to send me to a PT that specialized in shoulders.\u00a0 Come to find out, the dive that I hurt myself on was just the tipping point of my injury.\u00a0 For years I had been destroying my shoulder because I did not move it correctly.\u00a0 Instability in my shoulder had caused me to tear my labrum tissue and the dive finished it off.\u00a0 She found this out because I had the same problem in both shoulders, which after three years, she was the first medical professional to even look at my left arm (my non-throwing arm).\u00a0 However, the damage on my right shoulder had grown so bad that I required major surgery to repair it.\u00a0 Masking the pain for three years with opioids only made the problem worse.\u00a0 The result: two surgeries, lost range of motion, loss of strength, and having the difficulty of throwing a ball even 90 feet.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m sure you can guess what my opinion of opioid use is&#8230;what&#8217;s yours?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"pgc-776-0-2\" class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" data-weight=\"0.27225858421205\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"pgc-776-0-3\" class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" data-weight=\"0.05025773195881\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joseph Reinke, CFA, Founder of FitBUX In March, the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) released new guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain.\u00a0 I am not a physical therapist but I have very strong feelings about the use of opioids.\u00a0 At age 17, I hurt my shoulder playing baseball while diving for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Your Thoughts On Opioids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The CDC released new guidelines for prescribing opioids. 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