And that's an understandable reaction. A. Delayed recovery is essentially when a person is not responding to medical treatment within the normal time frame in which a physician would expect progress to occur. But it is well known that the major contributors that primarily drive delayed recovery patterns are psychosocial factors. A. Some of the contributors are particular long-term personality patterns, the level of heartiness or perseverance in the person's personality, cultural factors, economic factors and, of course, the legal factors that become a prominent influence in the course of rehabilitation. When you start to look at delayed recovery, factors such as depression and anxiety, early life abuse, compromised motivation, and personality disorders really drive that phenomenon.
Depression compromises motivation.
Many times patients might be referred to as non compliant but are just helplessly depressed because every where they turn, nothing seems to be helping. Thus what a patient begins to believe about their condition becomes very important. And what the patient thinks and believes may be very inconsistent with what the physician is saying to them. The physician is correct, but the patient interprets it and believes differently. Q. Talk more specifically about the increased financial costs and decreased medical outcomes.