August 6, 2026
“A pain-quality score taken on the day of diagnosis carried prognostic information that a year of inflammatory markers did not.”
“A thirteen-item questionnaire, filled in before the procedure, separated a group in which nine of ten patients ended up satisfied from one in which fewer than half did.”
“Three sessions is cheap enough to be a diagnostic test of the model, not just a treatment.”
“For a patient with chronic pain, the question is rarely whether therapy is covered at all – it is how many sessions the state manual allows, and that is where the five states diverge.”
“A low questionnaire score is not a low-severity patient, and in this sample the two readings diverged in more than half the room.”
“A congress is a map of the field, not a course in how to treat the patient who arrives on Monday.”