Effective pain care is multidisciplinary. We are, too. Be part of the premier organization dedicated to advancing and promoting the full spectrum of multidisciplinary pain care, education, advocacy, and research. AAPM is a community of [...]
The ICD-10-CM update for 2020 has been released. The 2020 ICD-10-CM codes are to be used from October 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020. The 2020 edition contains 273 additions, 30 code revisions and 21 [...]
The following report was submitted by Robert Wailes, MD, AAPM AMA DelegateThe Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) convened from June 8-12, in Chicago, Illinois. I represented the membership and [...]
The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is disheartened to learn of the dissolution of the American Pain Society (APS). Over the past nearly 40 years, AAPM has been fortunate to serve alongside APS in [...]
Pain medicine was represented at the recent American Medical Association House of Delegates (HOD) Annual Meeting by AAPM delegate Robert Wailes, MD, and alternate delegate Donna Bloodworth, MD. Among topics discussed, delegates advocated for patient's [...]
The IB-Stim is a non-surgical device that is placed behind the patient's ear during an outpatient visit and works by sending gentle electrical impulses into cranial nerve bundles located in the ear. Full story.
AAPM recently created a new Academic Pain Medicine Shared Interest Group. This SIG is dedicated to supporting academic pain medicine through:Deliberate mentorship of academic pain clinicians, under the rubric of faculty developmentProgrammatic and ongoing career [...]
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a poorly understood painful condition, which typically arises after distal limb trauma; 20% of patients may develop lifelong severe incessant pain with few therapeutic options. In this study, we [...]
Medical cannabis has been touted as a solution to the US opioid overdose crisis since Bachhuber et al. [M. A. Bachhuber, B. Saloner, C. O. Cunningham, C. L. Barry, JAMA Intern. Med. 174, 1668–1673] found [...]
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between gabapentinoids and adverse outcomes related to coordination disturbances (head or body injuries, or both and road traffic incidents or offences), mental health (suicidal behaviour, unintentional overdoses), and criminality.Read the [...]
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