Abstract: Background: Despite growing evidence of a critical link between neuromodulation technologies and neuroplastic recovery, the underlying mechanisms of these technologies remain elusive.Read the details.
More than 30 states as well as Washington D.C. have legalized cannabis for medical purposes, making it more accessible than ever before to patients throughout the country, including patients suffering from chronic pain. However, major [...]
AAPM Member and Scientific Poster Abstract Committee Co-Chair, Susan Moeschler, MD, was recently interviewed about intrathecal drug delivery systems on Pain Rounds with Dr. D. Watch the full interview to hear Dr. Moeschler field questions [...]
June 5, 2019, CHICAGO – The American Academy of Pain Medicine Board of Directors (AAPM) enthusiastically endorses the HHS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Final Report, which calls for a balanced, individualized, patient-centered [...]
AAPM 2020: Innovation & Technology in Pain Medicine Meeting Information The AAPM 36th Annual Meeting & Preconferences was held in National Harbor, MD, February 26-March 1, 2020. Thanks to all who participated. View detailed information about [...]
Some combination of data and machinery may, go the pronouncements of the tech world, do what millennia of humans have been unable to: accurately feel someone else's pain. Full story.
Brief Summary: This is a multi-center, prospective, open-label, single-arm, observational, feasibility study. The goal of this study is to determine the feasibility of intra-spinal stimulation with optimal paresthesia coverage therapy for chronic pain relief in [...]
Facing an urgent need for safer and more effective therapies for those suffering from debilitating pain, Saint Louis University researchers are on a mission to find a non-narcotic off-switch for pain. Full story.
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified specific regions of the brain that drive, influence, and moderate depressive mood and its relationship to perceiving physical pain.Full story.
Despite the availability of therapies, many headache syndromes remain refractory to symptomatic treatment, achieving incomplete resolution of pain, and patients with chronic headaches often pursue nonpharmacologic treatments in hopes of achieving a greater duration of [...]
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