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Rachel is a paramedic in her mid-30s who experienced significant emotional distress due to her workload, which grew exponentially during...
Pharmacy Assistant Jessica contracted COVID-19 while on the job and experienced lingering mental and physical effects. She felt elevated anxiety...
Elizabeth, a nurse in her early 40s and mother of three, was referred to Ascellus for a Comprehensive Psychological Stress...
Ascellus conducted a study from May 2020 to August 2021 to assess the benefits of work-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (W-CBT)...
The recent passing of Dr. Aaron T. Beck in November 2021 at the age of 100 has thrust his many...
It is not uncommon for workers who sustain an injury to develop psychosocial issues during recovery, which can intensify as...
Ascellus Delivers: A Transformative Treatment Approach The leader in biopsychosocial treatment in the workers’ compensation industry, Ascellus specializes in...
While injured workers who have suffered a serious physical injury need time to recuperate, time spent recovering physically may elicit...
Ascellus recently finished a webinar series, Rebound from COVID: 6 Influence Skills, which consisted of six 30-minute sessions with our...
We know that early intervention is critical to preventing delayed recoveries. One of the challenges has been to identify injured...
Emotions are powerful. They not only make a difference in how we feel and behave but they directly impact our...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (pronounced ACT) is a cognitive-behavioral therapy that emerged from research and theory on experiential avoidance—the idea...
In April 2019, Dr. Cal Robinson, Ascellus’s Clinical Advisor, published an article in the Journal of Clinical Research in Pain...
Fear is a scary thing, especially among injured workers. Those who say they are afraid/scared/worried/anxious at the beginning of a...
Chronic pain is more prevalent than many people think. The latest government figures say more than 15 percent of currently...
Your body is more than just a vehicle for carrying your head around. Modern research shows the mind and body...
Technology has truly revolutionized the way medical care is delivered to injured workers. We can now reach them in a...
What do you usually do when you stub your toe hard or hit your thumb with a hammer instead of...
The longer a post-surgical patient is on opioids, the greater the chances of misuse. New research out of Harvard shows...
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) uses a holistic approach to help people with delayed recoveries. It is short-term, goal-oriented, and has...
It’s Halloween – a day that can be a great opportunity for team building and comradery at an organization. Many...
Woe is Me! A Day in the Life of a Tapering Opioid User Sometimes things have to get worse before...
Time to Face the Music: The PTSD Survival Guide After experiencing a traumatic event, a person often uses avoidance behavior...
Question: Can humans actually multitask? Answer: It’s very rare that an individual can actually perform two or more tasks at...
An interesting case decided in New York recently spotlighted fibromyalgia, and whether a traumatic event could have triggered a recurrence...
Tapering off long term opioid use is difficult for nearly everyone. There can be a variety of symptoms, none of...
Mind-Body Treatments Touted as Superior to Usual Care for Chronic Low Back Pain Engaging the minds as well as the bodies...
CBT Can Prevent Post-Surgical Chronic Pain Injured workers who’ve undergone surgery run the risk of developing chronic pain. Researchers say...
CBT and Smartphones: Study Shows Power of CBT on Brain Changes There is a little known addiction that could...
Test Your Mental Health Knowledge Are you in a mental state? Confused? Good news; we are here to help! Workers’...
The Science of Mind-Body Therapies The latest research reveals what may be the most successful treatment for depression: a...
Study Indicates Prescribers Ignore Risk Factors for Delayed Recoveries “In 2015, more than a third of the U.S. adult...
CBT Techniques Can Change the Brain to Move Past Trauma and Chronic Pain Whoever said ‘you can’t teach an...
The Best Opioid is No Opioid There’s a new opioid law on the books that you may not even...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Gains Cred with Top Pain Docs “Integrating CBT in chronic pain management treatment plans is...
See Mirror Therapy on TV Imagine this television medical show plot:Woman goes to the ER with a bad itch...
Deep Breathing Can Reduce Fear and Lessen Chronic Pain The more you fear pain, the more you feel pain....
How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works Often patients (and providers) don’t understand and sometimes don’t believe that learning and practicing a...
Technology like telemedicine and telepsychology help get injured workers back to function better and faster Providing the proper treatment...