Upper Extremity Life Care Specialist (LCS)

Life Care Specialist (LCS) will : * Provide patients with individualized risk assessment for opioid misuse. * Act as patient's "Pain Coach." Providing targeted education and behavior-based pain treatment options. * Train and provide CWC evidence based non-pharmaceutical pain management techniques, using the Community Resiliency Model. * Use the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) as the method to identity the risk of substance misuse. * Provide education, support and resources, as well as local, state, and national resources to enhance the whole health aspect of the position. These resources include but are not limited to: written documents that outline the key concepts of the pain management techniques taught by the LCS and a list of hotlines and websites. * LCS, when applicable, will provide education for caretakers on the risk of opioid use and the non -pharmaceutical pain management protocol. * Provide follow up for all patients in intervention group.