Injection Therapy Garners Interest as Alternative to Opioids

Injection therapy may be one type of treatment that gets a boost from efforts to reduce opioid prescribing, according to a work comp corporate medical director. But the key, said Dr. Robert Hall of Optum’s workers’ comp division, is to stop administering injections if they haven’t been effective previously. “If a particular type of injection did not work in the past, it’s a good sign that it’s not going to work in the future,” Hall said during a webinar last month. “And I hate to say that we want to give up on particular types of treatments whe...