Evaluating and Treating Pain

Evaluating and Treating Pain is a course dedicated to updates and practice recommendations to optimize the assessment and treatment of pain.

Topics

• Injection Therapies
• Medications
• Acupuncture
• Implantables
• Surgery
• Meditation
• Interventional Techniques
• Cognitive Therapy
• Updates on the evaluation and treatment of pain: spinal, neuropathic, cancer, musculoskeletal, visceral, headache, fibromyalgia
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Medical marijuana in clinical practice
• State-of-the-art approaches to opioids
• Advances in pharmacologic treatments, injection therapies, and implanted devices
• Risk stratification, screening, and addiction psychopharmacology
• Guidance for combining treatment options to assure adequate pain control
• When and how to utilize acupuncture, mind/body interventions, and other complementary and alternative medicine techniques
• Advances in complementary and alternative approaches to pain medicine
• Techniques to improve examination and evaluation of the patient in pain: neurologic, musculoskeletal, psychosocial
• Measuring outcomes
• Interventional techniques for cancer patients
• Disabled or deceiving? Best practices for disability evaluations
• Treating back pain: pathophysiology, imaging, interventional techniques, surgical management
• The best methods to deal with patients when discontinuing opioids
• Resolving difficult encounters with patients

Who should Attend

• Anesthesiologists
• Pain Specialists
• Psychiatrists
• Physiatrists
• Family Physicians
• Internists
• Palliative Care Physicians
• Neurologists
• Orthopedists
• Oncologists
• Nurse Practitioners
• Emergency Medicine Specialists
• Physician Assistants
• Nurse Anesthetists
• Psychologists
• Dentists
• Pharmacists
• Other healthcare professionals interested in the practice of alleviating pain