Making music to making lives better: A transition from musician to health professional

Jessica Stanhope

doi:10.3233/wor-203307

Making music to making lives better: A transition from musician to health professional

Work ◽

10.3233/wor-203307 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 67 (3) ◽

pp. 529-534

Author(s):

Jessica Stanhope

Keyword(s):

Health Professional ◽

Constant Pain ◽

Pain Specialist ◽

Wisdom Teeth

The day my pain specialist told me I would never be pain-free again, I knew my music career was over. I was 21 years old, and had been in constant pain for about two years. I had experienced intermittent jaw pain for about 10 years, but having braces on my teeth, and later having my wisdom teeth removed was supposed to fix it. It did not. The day of my surgery was the last time I had been pain free, even for a second. The years that followed were horrible, and my life was turned upside down.

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Dental extraction and full mouth root canal therapy in a patient with atypical odontalgia: Report of invasive malpractice

Brazilian Dental Science ◽

10.14295/bds.2021.v24i1.2315 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Hamed Mortazavi ◽

Maryam Baharvand ◽

Kosar Rezaei Far ◽

Zahra Sanjabi Eznaveh

Keyword(s):

Root Canal ◽

Masticatory Muscles ◽

Root Canal Therapy ◽

Atypical Odontalgia ◽

Dental Pathology ◽

Constant Pain ◽

Dental Procedures ◽

Dental Practitioners ◽

Chronic Orofacial Pain ◽

Wisdom Teeth

Atypical odontalgia is a pain disorder featured by constant pain without any obvious dental pathology. We report a 38-year-old man having chronic orofacial pain in the past two years. The pain was first located in the left maxillary premolar-molar region, but spread to the contra lateral mandible, occipital region, head and shoulders over time. The pain was described as dull and continuous with the intensity of #6 (VAS), and not relieved even after root canal therapy of all teeth and extraction of wisdom teeth . Some comorbid conditions such as TMJ problems and involvement of masticatory muscles were also reported. Finally, the diagnosis of atypical odontalgia was established due to lack of evidence for any organic pathology on clinical and paraclinical investigations, and a combination therapy including fluoxetine and clonazepam was started. Dental practitioners should consider AO when confronting toothache without any reasonable organic cause and avoid unnecessary dental procedures. KEYWORDS Atypical toothache; Malpractice; Endodontics.

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Assessing Social Skills in Health Professional Services

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759.21.3.173 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 173-181

Author(s):

Francisco Gil ◽

Jesús Sanz ◽

María Paz García-Vera ◽

José M. León ◽

Silvia Medina ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

Health Services ◽

Health Professional ◽

Aggressive Behavior ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Intervention Program ◽

Professional Services ◽

Quality Of Health Services

Abstract. The quality of health services depends on the contribution of all the professionals involved in the system, including certain groups, usually forgotten and underrated, such as the health-transport technicians (HTT). With the aim of improving this group's performance, an intervention program, focusing on the development of the workers' technical and social skills, was designed in a collective of enterprises. Information about the first stage of this program, consisting of the assessment of these workers' social skills, is offered in this study. A specific questionnaire was developed: The Health-Transport Technicians Social Skills Questionnaire (HTT-SSQ), made up of three scales (assertive, passive, and aggressive behavior). It was administered to a large sample (N = 530) from the above-mentioned association. The psychometric properties of the questionnaire were analyzed, with quite satisfactory indexes of internal consistency and factor validity, and the group's deficiencies (excess or deficit) were evaluated.

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