Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine
Royal Sonesta Boston • June 1 – 5, 2015
Cambridge, MA
Updates and Practice Recommendations to Optimize Your Assessment and Treatment of Pain
Spinal. Headache. Neuropathic. Fibromyalgia. Myofascial. Cancer. Abdominal. Pelvic.
This program provides a comprehensive review of the state of the art in pain medicine and of recent changes and advances that impact clinical approaches and patient outcomes. Updates and practice recommendations are provided by world-renowned experts and Harvard Medical School’s leading clinical faculty in pain medicine, anesthesiology, neurology, psychiatry and psychology, internal medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, orthopedic surgery, interventional radiology, and neurosurgery. The evidence-based recommendations provided in this program cover the entire gamut of options in the relief of pain, including:
- Medications
- Injection therapies
- Implantables
- Acupuncture
- Chiropractic
- Meditation
- Surgery
Evaluating and Treating Pain: Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine is one of the first and most widely respected courses on pain management, having been updated annually since 1985. Colleagues who participate in the course consistently report that the knowledge and skills they acquire from this update change their practice and drive better outcomes for patients. Highlights of the 2015 program include:
- Advances in pharmacologic treatments, injection therapies, and implanted devices
- Prescribing opioids: patient selection, dosing, and legal updates
- Prescribing medical marijuana: clinical guidance and risk management considerations
- Techniques to improve examination and evaluation
- Management of difficult patients
- Advances in complementary and alternative approaches to pain medicine
- Guidance for combining options to assure adequate pain relief
- Risk stratification, screening, and addiction psychopharmacology
- Interventional techniques for cancer patients
- Skills advancement workshop in ultrasound for injection therapies
- When and how to utilize acupuncture and mind/body interventions
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Optimally select patients for pharmacologic treatment of pain with opioids and other medications and titrate the doses appropriately
- Optimally select patients for interventional pain treatments such as injection therapies and implanted devices
- Use a variety of pain relieving techniques to assure adequate pain control in clinical practice
- Consider mind/body techniques to use in practice to help your patients with chronic or debilitating pain
- Apply current guidelines for the management of pediatric pain