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Although opioids remain an important tool in aiding the management of pain in the United States, the balance between the potential benefits and harms must be considered. Some specific harms are manifested in the abuse of opioids for nonmedical purposes. The primary access to prescribable opioids for...
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Fierce debates rage on about chronic pain. These include the utility of chronic opioid therapy, the value proposition of multidisciplinary approaches, reimbursement related issues, risk of aberrant drug related behaviors, along with many other questions related to assessment and treatment...
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Recent advances in neuromodulation approaches have resulted in several promising applications for the treatment of various chronic pain disorders. This course will review several of the more popular applications, including transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcutaneous vagus nerve...
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The Pain Educators Forum presents this course because there are so many different levels of practitioner experience with pain management. Specifically, inspiration came from someone who, after attending one of our courses, had a burning question for our faculty: "What do sodium channels have to do...
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Researchers at Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, in cooperation with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) have developed updated recommendations for primary care on the classification, prevention, and management of diabetic neuropathy. The new position statement updates previous guidance...
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Results of a small clinical trial conducted at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Sinus Center suggest a new therapeutic approach to treating chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) with nasal polyps. The study found that verapamil hydrochloride, currently used to treat cluster headache and cardiovascular disease...
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There is a special report from the online journal STAT that reviews the dimensions of the crisis in opioid prescribing for patients with chronic pain. While not breaking new ground in the discussion, the report offers a succinct roundup of the different points of view on this issue of central...
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Clinicians at Seattle Children’s Hospital report that they have brought pediatric patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (UC) into remission using diet alone. Of the first time advance, lead researcher and gastroenterologist David Suskind, MD, asserted, “This changes the paradigm for...
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What I have found in the research as well as from my clinical experience has been that adolescents are often paired with pediatric and geriatric populations in the studies as well as treatment. But adolescents differ in many ways on biopsychosocial and spiritual levels. Biologically, the brain is...