Posted on 01/19/2022 6:52:56 PM PST by ConservativeMind
When patients' hip or knee replacements were delayed in response to COVID-19 surges, chatbots delivering encouraging messages not only benefited the mental health of patients—they also experienced boosts to their physical health, too. A paper showed that twice as many of the patients who received the messages informed by psychotherapy experienced meaningful clinical improvements compared to those who didn't.
"We think it is very significant that we saw benefits in both mental and physical health," Christopher Anthony, MD. "This demonstrates the importance of the relatively unexplored area between a patient's psychological well-being and their joint function."
The study team employed an automated system that delivered text messages twice a day to the delayed joint replacement patients. Every text was informed by a psychotherapeutic concept called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which emphasizes a focus on a patient's own goals for themselves and their health while directly addressing feelings of pain or disappointment.
For example, one message said, in part, "If you are experiencing some pain today, we encourage you to acknowledge it and then turn your focus to the things in your life that matter most to you."
Overall, patients enrolled in the text messaging system scored better on all measured outcomes except for anxiety—in which neither group showed improvement.
But the benefits of the texting program appeared to extend beyond mental health into the physical. Of those who received texts, 38 percent reported improved physical health over the study period.
Anthony believes that a program like this could have significant benefits in future crises.
"We would like to see our methods utilized by others and implemented in practice given the ongoing pandemic needs," Anthony said. "We really think this could help some people."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Amazing.
I can see this substituting for actual surgeries, at some desperate future point in time.
I’ve always thought this scene from the movie THX-1138 captures what the corporate world sees as a ‘spiritual/religious experience’ in our not so far future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YkPnwoYyE
I’ve always thought this scene from the movie THX-1138 captures what the corporate world sees as a ‘spiritual/religious experience’ in our not so far future:
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Wow. I was thinking of that very scene. A good, but depressing movie.
I need surgery. The surgeon said she hates that. Her nurse said that they had laid off 1000 nurses. The ORs are in an area where most of the staff are AA. How is it not racist to fire these people who refuse to be vaxed?
You can fool some of the people all of the time...
Nothing sends me around the bend like a chatty robot on the phone. “OK, got it. You said tubular snow sand. Let me look that up for you.” [stupid supposed computer sounds playing]
My wife, who is overdue for a hip replacement has two words to describe this: BS!
When, she stands up or moves, her hip sounds like rocks in a cement mixer as it grinds up the rocks/her hip bones.
Last summer, my second toe on my right foot was doing a painful hammer toe 24/7.
That was about the lowest priority surgery, re actually going to a surgery center.
So my podiatrist lopped it off and sewed up the stump in the clinic, and sent me home.
2 weeks later, I came back to have the stitches removed from
my new stump toe.
My family calls me old 9 toes.
My wife had cataracts removed before the shutdowns, and she developed floaters. A few years before, I had a scheduled same day care procedure where I got Versed and had my floaters zapped with a laser. I could not drive for 24 hours post zapping.
My wife had her floaters zapped in the doctors’ office last summer and was sent home that day and only was restricted with no driving after her zapping for 12 hours. Then, she could drive, work or whatever as long as she used some RX drops in her eyes.
“one message said, in part, “If you are experiencing some pain today, we encourage you to acknowledge it and then turn your focus to the things in your life that matter most to you.”
Ok, OUCH, and what matters to me most is that I am in pain, and a damn communist hospital system is delaying my treatment.
I know movies have had platitude dispensing therapy bots, but the movie names are eluding me at the moment.
"THX 1138" referenced multiple times above by previous posters.
Look, NetAddicted: I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
Regards,
Strange response. Oh, well.
Sorry that you didn't "get" my "2001: A Space Odyssey" reference.
Regards,
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