PAIN Week

Michael R. Clark, MD, MPH, MBA, outlines the vulnerabilities that put patients with acute pain at risk of transitioning into new chronic pain.

A panel of three experts from the legal side of pain management said investigations into prescribers after patient deaths resulting from opioid overdose are rare and overblown.

News and updates about PAINWeek 2013.

Knowing your patient is always the best way to the right treatment --particularly for military patients, who bring unique clinical challenges.

Giordano highlights issues in pain medicine that leave patient populations vulnerable.

Dissimilar pharmacokinetics make blood and urine testing useful for different purposes in compliance monitoring.

Geralyn Datz, PhD, discusses strategies for optimizing medical adherence.

Paul J. Christo, MD provides an overview of the prevalence of pain in older adults while discussing physiological age-associated changes in pain processing.

Rebecca Curtis, ACC, discussed the stages of change associated with transforming helpless patients to empowered survivors.

There are many conscious and unconscious factors that affect clinicians' reactions to patients suffering with pain.

Rebecca Curtis, ACC, shares her experience as a chronic pain patient in accepting her condition and moving on with life.

Philip Getson, DO, takes an in-depth look at a condition that is as difficult to treat as it is to diagnose, tackling many myths about CRPS along the way.

The grief and experience of loss felt by many patients is an often overlooked component of chronic pain.

Session reviewed common pitfalls and questions to consider for physicians looking into the dispensary business.

This session provided insight into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy while challenging the audience to achieve a state of mindfulness for patients & themselves.

Session covered the wide range of methods drug seekers use and ways that pain management professionals can combat diversion, one patient at a time.

Besides the immediate impact of improperly treated pain, children can experience long-Lasting consequences.

Effective chronic pain management requires a structured approach to evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.

Mary Lynn McPherson gave attendees some poignant reminders about methadone treatment in a lively, entertaining, and informative session.

For those treating pediatric patients, the task of identifying symptoms and measuring the levels of pain being experienced is a bit more complicated.

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Though not typically their favorite part of practicing, pain medicine practitioners need to be on top of legal and regulatory requirements.

"Unrecognized health care problem" presents complex challenges for both surgeons and primary care physicians seeing patients after surgery.

Clinicians in all settings can teach their patients to use relaxation, meditation and other techniques to achieve relief from chronic pain conditions.

Attendees retired early Tuesday evening judging by the standing-room only attendance at "Pain Mechanisms," one of five concurrent sessions to open PAINWeek.