Dr Kosaku Aoyagi is a physical therapist and Assistant Professor based at the University of Texas at El Paso and the Director of Pain Research in Mechanism-based Physical Therapy. His expertise is in pain and central pain mechanism in osteoarthritis. On this week's episode of Joint Action, we discuss the use of opioids for osteoarthritis, opioid induced hyperalgesia and much more. RESOURCES Mediating Effect of Pain Sensitization on the Paradoxical Relation of Taking Opioids to Pain Severity in Knee Osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study CONNECT WITH KOSAKU Laboratory websiteLinkedInTwitter/XInstagram CONNECT WITH US Twitter: @ProfDavidHunter @jointactionorgInstagram: @ProfDavidHunterEmail: [email protected]: www.jointaction.info/podcast If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe to learn more about osteoarthritis from the world's leading experts! And please let us know what you thought by leaving us a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.