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For Providers

Why Injectful?

  • Easily incorporate a mind-body technique into your patient’s care

 

  • The meditation programs integrate perfectly into the interventional aspect of your care

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  • Improve spinal cord stimulator trial experience

 

  • Increase patient satisfaction during interventional procedures

Which patients?

  • Any patient coming in for a procedure who has a smart phone 

  • Novice and experienced meditators alike.

  • Patients with anxiety, or no anxiety at all

Share with Patients

  • Contact us and we will provide you with Injectful Informational Cards and Patient Instruction documents to provide for your patients. You can also download the Patient Instructions here.

  • Or, simply tell them the name of the app – Injectful – and they can easily find us on the Apple and Google Play stores

What is Injectful?

  • The Injectful App is for patients undergoing low back or neck injections, or spinal cord stimulator trials for chronic pain

  • The program consists of 7-9 Meditation Programs tailored specifically for patients undergoing interventional procedures

Injectful Patient Handout 

(Printable Version)

Literature

Numerous studies evaluating the efficacy and benefits of mindfulness interventions have been published on patients for acute and chronic pain and for patients undergoing interventional procedures and surgery. 

 

References:

Dossett, Michelle L., Gregory L. Fricchione, and Herbert Benson. "A New Era for Mind–Body Medicine." N Engl J Med 382.15 (2020): 1390-1391. Read it here.

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Marinelli, Veronica, et al. "PREPARE: PreoPerative Anxiety REduction. One-Year Feasibility RCT on a Brief Psychological Intervention for Pancreatic Cancer Patients Prior to Major Surgery." Frontiers in Psychology 11 (2020): 362. Read it here. 

 

Wells, Rebecca E., et al. "Attention to breath sensations does not engage endogenous opioids to reduce pain." Pain (2020). Read the abstract here. 

 

Vagnoli, Laura, et al. "Relaxation-guided imagery reduces perioperative anxiety and pain in children: a randomized study." European journal of pediatrics 178.6 (2019): 913-921.

 

dos Santos Felix, Márcia Marques, et al. "Relaxation therapy with guided imagery for postoperative pain management: an integrative review." Pain Management Nursing 20.1 (2019): 3-9.

 

Hilton, Lara, et al. "Mindfulness meditation for chronic pain: systematic review and meta-analysis." Annals of Behavioral Medicine 51.2 (2017): 199-213.

 

Carpenter, Justin J., Sandra H. Hines, and Virginia M. Lan. "Guided imagery for pain management in postoperative orthopedic patients: an integrative literature review." Journal of Holistic Nursing 35.4 (2017): 342-351.

 

Powell, Rachael, et al. "Psychological preparation and postoperative outcomes for adults undergoing surgery under general anaesthesia." Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 5 (2016).

 

Zgierska, Aleksandra E., et al. "Mindfulness meditation and cognitive behavioral therapy intervention reduces pain severity and sensitivity in opioid-treated chronic low back pain: pilot findings from a randomized controlled trial." Pain Medicine 17.10 (2016): 1865-1881.

 

Zeidan, Fadel, and David Vago. "Mindfulness meditation–based pain relief: a mechanistic account." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1373.1 (2016): 114.

 

Zeidan, Fadel, et al. "Mindfulness-meditation-based pain relief is not mediated by endogenous opioids." Journal of Neuroscience 36.11 (2016): 3391-3397.

 

Sharon, Haggai, et al. "Mindfulness meditation modulates pain through endogenous opioids." The American journal of medicine 129.7 (2016): 755-758.

 

Ratcliff, Chelsea Gilts. Brief Guided Mindfulness Meditation for Women Undergoing Stereotactic Breast Biopsy: Effects on Patient Self-Report, EEG Activity, and Physiological Measures. Diss. 2015.

 

Rajguru, Parth, et al. "Use of mindfulness meditation in the management of chronic pain: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials." American Journal of lifestyle medicine 9.3 (2015): 176-184.

 

Day, Melissa A., et al. "Toward a theoretical model for mindfulness-based pain management." The journal of pain 15.7 (2014): 691-703.

 

Simkin, Deborah R., and Nancy B. Black. "Meditation and mindfulness in clinical practice." Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics 23.3 (2014): 487-534.

 

Reiner, Keren, Lee Tibi, and Joshua D. Lipsitz. "Do mindfulness-based interventions reduce pain intensity? A critical review of the literature." Pain Medicine 14.2 (2013): 230-242.

 

Perlman, David M., et al. "Differential effects on pain intensity and unpleasantness of two meditation practices." Emotion 10.1 (2010): 65.

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Gonzales, Eric A., et al. Effects of guided imagery on postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing same-day surgical procedures: a randomized, single-blind study. AANA J. 2010 Jun;78(3):181-8.

 

Jensen, Mark P. "Hypnosis for chronic pain management: a new hope." Pain 146.3 (2009): 235-237.

 

Accardi, Michelle C., and Leonard S. Milling. "The effectiveness of hypnosis for reducing procedure-related pain in children and adolescents: a comprehensive methodological review." Journal of behavioral medicine 32.4 (2009): 328-339.

 

Schwab, Deborah, et al. "A study of efficacy and cost-effectiveness of guided imagery as a portable, self-administered, presurgical intervention delivered by a health plan." Adv Mind Body Med 22.1 (2007): 8-14.

 

Diaz, Manuel, and Brad Larsen. "Preparing for successful surgery: an implementation study." The Permanente Journal 9.3 (2005): 23.

 

Plews-Ogan, Margaret, et al. "Brief report: A pilot study evaluating mindfulness-based stress reduction and massage for the management of chronic pain." Journal of general internal medicine 20.12 (2005): 1136-1138.

 

Butler, Lisa D., et al. "Hypnosis reduces distress and duration of an invasive medical procedure for children." Pediatrics 115.1 (2005): e77-e85.

 

Astin, John A., et al. "Mind-body medicine: state of the science, implications for practice." The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 16.2 (2003): 131-147.

 

Chaves, John F. "Recent advances in the application of hypnosis to pain management." American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis 37.2 (1994): 117-129.

 

Morse, D. R., and B. B. Cohen. "Desensitization using meditation-hypnosis to control" needle" phobia in two dental patients." Anesthesia progress 30.3 (1983): 83.

 

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