text: Yes, Kaleo, mindfulness practice, movement-based therapies and progressive increase in activity level over MANY weeks is often necessary before safe and sustainable return to full-functioning following significant injury. Pain is best controlled when tissues are maximally healed. Until then, we need an intact (undisturbed) pain response to guide our activity and sense our tissue limits in real time. Over-riding this with quick-fix narcotics is a prescription for delayed healing. This impatient, short-cut approach often costs health plans and employers far more in the long run due to poorly healed tissues, scarring, increased reliance on expensive health care (Dr. visits, meds, injections, tests, surgeries) lower job performance, intermittent mental clouding, irritable and depressed mood, chronic pain, and addiction. It is a sad reflection on the U.S. medical community that this has become our standard of care and contributed to misery, mortality and exploding health costs. Very Sad.