Topics
- Treatment options for various chronic pain conditions including neural blockade, pharmacology, physical medicine and behavioral therapies and surgical
- Systematic approach to deal with pain based on the current understanding of pain mechanisms
- The role for psychological assessments and therapies in the overall management of chronic pain
- Using evidence based medicine to evaluate the role for non-opiate pharmacology in migraine, azial pain and neuropathic pain
- Biomechanics and functional anatomy of the spine
- Classification of neuropathic pain, list the therapeutic options based on the mechanisms and evaluate the outcome based on evidence based medicine
- Recognized pain syndromes which can be responsive to advanced interventional techniques and make the appropriate referrals
- Signs and symptoms of progressing neck and back pain, identify imaging modalitites that will be used and refer patients for more intensive management, if needed
- Targets where medications work and where future medications may work
- Migraine with and without aura, chronic migraine, medication overuse headache and chronic daily headache
- What causes migraine to transform into chronic migraine and indicate the optimal treatments to use for chronic and acute migraine
Who should Attend
Rheumatologits, neurologits, pain management, physiatrists and primary care physicians.
