On this episode of The Construction Record Podcast™, digital media editor Warren Frey speaks with BC Construction Industry Rehabilitation Plan (CIRP) executive director Vicky Waldron about its Opioid-Free Pain Clinic pilot program which approaches pain management after workplace injury without drug prescriptions.

Waldron spoke to the importance of avoiding opioid use to mask pain and the clinic instead uses an innovative technique called myoActivation trigger point therapy which reduces pain without pharmacological intervention.

She also said those who go through the therapy recover more quickly while avoiding drug use, and that the construction industry has collaborated extensively with the clinic resulting in workers getting back to work more quickly and at significantly lower cost than surgery and other treatments.

Our recent interview with “Building Toronto’s Skyline” author Nick Ainis is here and our podcasts from World of Concrete are also available including a preview episode, a look at robotics and construction and an episode about women in construction and the potential of 3d printing with concrete. Other episodes are available at the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce websites as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music’s podcast section. Thanks for listening.

DCN-JOC News Services