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What interventional procedures are common? What works? Do patients comply with physician instructions? Dr. Christo talks about his experiences.
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Chronic pain is quite common as well as challenging in geriatric patients. Dr. Gupta of Kansas Pain Management in Kansas City offers his experience of the aging population, the future of geriatric pain management, and potential treatments.
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Headache specialists Drs. Nina Riggins and Larry Charleston IV discuss medication overuse, medication overuse headache, and prevention of this problem.
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Pain conditions that often occur together and either solely or predominantly affect women have been termed by the NIH as chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs). They include: vulvodynia, temporomandibular disorders, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome...
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Tapering medication can be stressful for a patient. How can a practitioner make it less so? VA doctors Robert Sproul and Sanjog Pangarkar discuss the importance of communication and partnership between patient and practitioner.
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Dr. Doug Gourlay and legal expert Jennifer Bolen discuss the intersection of medicine and law. What are the connections between carrying out licensing board directives on using opioids to treat pain, reasonably prudent medical decision-making, and documentation. Practitioners must never lose sight...
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Manual therapies and the human touch positively affect people with chronic pain, and are an important part of a multimodal, interdisciplinary approach to pain management. Michael Kurisu, DO, ABIHM, is the clinical director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California San...
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The founder and president of Take Courage Coaching, Becky Curtis, NBC-HWC, CPMC, discusses pain management coaching and its relationship to managed care.
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What are the most common misconceptions about interventional pain management? What are the misconceptions about the specialists who perform the interventions? Associate Professor Paul Christo, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses.
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The current landscape of pain management is shifting. There’s a huge reaction to opioids and the negative impact they’ve had on many people’s lives. Alongside that, there’s a rise in the interest in cannabinoids. Might the legalization of marijuana ultimately reduce opioid deaths? How can pain...