Dr. Renzo Mendoza (e-mail, Twitter), Dr. Jennifer Ryan (e-mail), and Dr. Craig Hensley (e-mail, Twitter) are interviewed by Leanna Blanchard about their recent presentation, “Chronic Pain and Hypertension: The Relationship and Evidence-Based Management” which they presented at the Combined Sections Meeting in February 2023. This episode will help clinicians understand the bidirectional and complex relationship between blood pressure and chronic pain and how it influences our clinical process of examination and manual therapy treatment. Additionally, here are some resources mentioned in the interview: Bruehl, 2004 (Interactions between the cardiovascular system and alterations in chronic pain), Bakris, 2019 (Hypertension guidelines), Chimenti, 2018 (A mechanism-based approach to PT management of pain), APTA Adult Vital Sign Interpretation Guide 2021.

Research - Interview with Mendoza, Ryan, and Hensley