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PAINWeek 2019
September 3-7, 2019
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The national conference on pain for frontline practitioners. PAINWeek is the largest US pain conference for frontline clinicians with an interest in pain management.
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2019 schedule
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The regional conferences on pain for frontline practitioners. Depending on the location (1 or 2-day meetings), 6 to 12 hours per conference of CE/CME credit hours are presented.
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Education
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| research/study
Encouragement for Trigeminal Neuralgia Sufferers
Trigeminal neuralgia is considered to be a challenging pain condition to treat, with prognosis for sufferers usually assumed to be poor. But findings...
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| opioid therapy
Opioid Misuse and Suicide Risk: Don’t Ignore the Older Adult
New research conducted by a team from the School of Social Welfare, Albany University reports an association between nonmedical prescription opioid use (NMPOU) and risk...
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| osteoarthritis
An Easier Route to Better Hip Replacement Outcomes
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a preoperative assessment of routine functional status may be a simple means to predict...
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| naloxone
Getting Naloxone Where It’s Needed with First Generic Approval
In a press release issued Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its approval of the first generic formulation of naloxone and said...
READ
A PAINWeek attendee said that “Coming to PAINWeek is like eating brainfood. You feel so much smarter when you leave.”
This section of our Website houses insights and epiphanies from our stellar PAINWeek faculty. If you prefer smaller plates of information, then Brainfood is the place to go!
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Empathy and the Patient Perspective
What I have come to realize is that as we understand that patients are truly individuals, there are many things that the standard assessment processes are not going to capture...
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Let’s Tread Carefully with Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana is probably about one-part science and nine-parts religion at this point. We want to see that balance shift toward science. Only then are physicians’ practices, prescribers’ practices, authorizers’ practices...
LISTEN
Listen to PAINWeek Podcasts featuring faculty presenting courses from previous PAINWeek conferences.
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PWJ - PAINWeek Journal, like our website, is meant to extend the energy and experience of the national conference throughout the entire year. Each issue presents articles developed by our PAINWeek faculty, adapted from their respective conference presentations.
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