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The American Pain Society 30th Annual Scientific Meeting
Meeting Date:  Thu, 05/19/2011 - Sat, 05/21/2011 Meeting Location:  Austin Convention Center Austin, TX The American Pain Society 30th Annual Scientific Meeting offered up-to-date information about diagnosing, treating, and managing acute pain, recurrent pain, and chronic cancer and non-cancer pain. Healthcare professionals who work in the multidisciplinary pain field came together to examine and evaluate current pain management models and to discuss their own research and clinical observations.
Refractory Chronic Migraine
For many patients, refractory chronic migraines can be disabling and debilitating. Treating these patients may require a combination of therapeutic approaches.
Electrical Me
Read what a pain patient experiences following an aircraft accident -- and what she calls "bizarre sensations." Important patient perspective for any pain management specialist to read.
Minimally Invasive Interventional Spine Treatment – Part 1
Diagnosing the cause of back pain is a detailed process. The patient diagnostic work-up should commence with a well-documented, detailed, and directed historical account, together with a focused physical examination of the involved body parts.
Magnets & Medicine
A non-invasive approach to treating pain conditions, magnetic therapy offers alternative to traditional medicine.
The Pseudo-RSD Pain Patient
A case report of a patient successfully mimicking the signs and symptoms of reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) together with a review of what is currently known about RSD presentation, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and a discussion on impairment determination for RSD sufferers.
Suspecting and Diagnosing Arachnoiditis
This article provides a review of the symptoms noted in a group of patients with arachnoiditis and presents an analysis of clinical observations of this disease.
Opioid Antagonists in Pain Management
Available evidence suggests that the opioid antagonists naloxone and naltrexone offer potential benefits for enhancing opioid analgesia as well as monotherapy for managing certain challenging pain conditions.
Activated Glia: Targets for the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
The workshop was organized by Mark S. Cooper, PhD (Univ. Washington); Donald C. Manning, MD, PhD (Shionogi USA, Inc.); and Kirk W. Johnson, PhD (MediciNova, Inc.). Additional information about the workshop, including a video of microglial activation from Michael Dailey (U.
Assessment and Treatment of Chronic Pain
Evaluating a chronic pain condition from a one-dimensional biological perspective is limiting, and often fails to fully explain the patient’s symptoms. Consequently, assessment requires not only the examination of the biological dimension, but of the psychological and social dimensions as well.
CES in the Treatment of Pain-Related Disorders
Cranial electrotherapy stimulation studies demonstrate that this modality is effective, safe, and easy to use as a stand-alone or complementary, cost effective, non-medication treatment for the management of pain.
Chronic Overuse Sports Injuries in the Adolescent/Pediatric Population
The evaluation and management of chronic overuse sports/athletic injuries is one of the most pervasive concerns in sports medicine today. Overuse sports injuries outnumber acute, instantaneous injuries in almost every athletic activity. Because overuse sports injuries are not instantly disabling, they attract less medical attention that those that cause an acute and obvious loss of function.
Temporal Tendinitis Migraine Mimic
This article discusses the diagnosis and treatment of temporal tendonitis—a very common disorder that is often mistaken for a migraine.
Lumbar Back Belts in the Workplace
A review of the efficacy of lumbar back belts in the workplace in reducing back injuries and pain.
Advances in Regenerative Medicine: High-density Platelet-rich Plasma and Stem Cell Prolotherapy For Musculoskeletal Pain
The newest form of prolotherapy, known as stem cell prolotherapy, is used in difficult cases or where accelerated musculoskeletal healing is desired. Read about this chronic pain treatment.
Treatment of Acute Pain in the Orthopedic Patient
Treatment of acute pain in the orthopedic patient is discussed in this article. A review of the mechanisms of acute pain and treatment strategies in orthopedic patients with special emphasis on pre-emptive analgesia is also discussed.
Pelvic Floor Tension Myalgia (PFTM)
Basics of pelvic floor tension myalgia is discussed. Includes discussion of multidisciplinary treatments for optimal outcomes for pelvic floor tension myalgia.
Women and Chronic Pain
Article discusses women and chronic pain, including a discussion of insights into the physiologic adaptations that predispose women to more frequent, sustained pain events and increased likelihood of chronic pain.
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