Evaluating and Treating Pain 2020 is a course dedicated to updates and practice recommendations to optimize the assessment and treatment of pain.
Evaluating and Treating Pain 2020 covers topics such as:
- 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
Evaluating and Treating Pain 2020 brings together:
- 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