Training Robots to Relieve Chronic Pain
Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, have developed a collaborative robot system to automatically treat back, neck, and head pain caused by soft tissue injury. Full story.
Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, have developed a collaborative robot system to automatically treat back, neck, and head pain caused by soft tissue injury. Full story.
AAPM will host a free CME webinar on Friday, July 12, 2-3 pm CT. Presenters include AAPM members Beth Darnall, PhD, and Aram Mardian, MD. View course description and instructions on how to register here. [...]
AAPM Member Forest Tennant, MD, presents a short report on his interim finding of the "Arachnoiditis Research Project" that began about 6 months ago. Full story.
AAPM Vice President for Scientific Affairs Vitaly Gordin, MD, chief of the Chronic Pain Management Center at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, is featured in the "Exceptional Moments in Teaching" program. He [...]
RXQ Compounding, LLC ("RXQ") is voluntarily recalling all sterile human and animal products within expiry to the user level due to lack of sterility process assurance associated with the production of the Company's sterile products.Full [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the eleventh revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) at its World Health Assembly meeting in May 2019. It addition to other major [...]
The AAPM 2020 Annual Meeting Program Committee is now accepting educational session proposals through July 15, 5 pm CT. The AAPM Annual Meeting is the must-attend meeting of the year for clinicians treating patients in [...]
Bring awareness and recognition of headache disorder as a legitimate neurobiological disease and help make individuals with headache disorder know that there are new treatments available. Read about the AAPM Foundation's Migraine Consensus Guideline project [...]
Five fundamental treatment goals of a pain psychologist are reviewed in the Psychology Today blog post.Full story.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, may be a viable therapy for women with endometriosis experiencing chronic pelvic pain for whom other treatments have failed, a study suggests.Full story.