There's still time to sign up for the upcoming AAPM 36th Annual Meeting and preconference courses taking place February 26-March 1 in National Harbor, MD. Advance/online registration is available through February 21. Aft...
This study proposes to pilot test an intervention to facilitate opioid pain reliever (OPR) tapering in primary care. The intervention will incorporate a clinician embedded within primary care to follow tapering dose sche...
The Dementia Management Quality Measurement Set was first developed and released in 2013 by the PCPI Foundation. Developed by an appointed multistakeholder technical expert panel (TEP), the 2013 Measurement Set was suppo...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved three drugs for nonprescription, or over-the-counter (OTC), use through a process called a prescription (Rx)-to-OTC switch. The FDA approved Voltaren Arthritis Pain (d...
Several professional organizations have recommended tramadol as one of the first-line or second-line therapies for patients with chronic noncancer pain and its prescription has been increasing rapidly worldwide; however, the safety profile of tramadol, such as risk of fracture, remains unclear.
AAPM Members Sara Davin, PhD and David Edwards, MD PhD were interviewed by Huffington Post about why it can be difficult to identify chronic pain treatments that work and how persons experiencing pain can communicate mos...
T'ai chi (TC) has been found effective for improving chronic low back pain. However, such studies did not include adults over 65 years of age. This study was designed to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of TC in this population compared with Health Education and with Usual Care.
What are the most effective, safe, and accepted pharmacologic treatments for migraine prophylaxis in children and adolescents?
On February 27, AAPM will feature the 2020 Advanced Ultrasound-Guided Pain Medicine Interventions preconference course. We would like to thank our Commercial Supporters for their dedication to pain medicine education by ...
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between serum vitamin D concentration and lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) in postmenopausal women and the epidemiologic factors affecting low back pain (LBP).