2019 AAPM Meeting Highlights from Medscape
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2019 AAPM Meeting Highlights from MedPage Today
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2019 AAPM Meeting Highlights from Practical Pain Management
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AAPM Board Votes to Expand Active Membership
The AAPM Board of Directors voted unanimously at its March 6 meeting in Denver to support a measure that expands Active AAPM Membership to non-physicians who possess a U.S. or Canadian doctoral level degree in psychology, [...]
CHOIR Results Demonstrate Shortest Path Between Primary Care and Pain Medicine for the Most Complex Patients
Feb. 18, 2016, PALM SPRINGS, Calif. –- The care of complex patients with pain exhibits a closer connection between primary care and the specialty of pain medicine than that seen with less complex patients, Stanford researchers [...]
Intradiscal Biacuplasty Sustains Long-term Superiority Over Conservative Treatment for Discogenic Low-Back Pain
Feb. 18, 2016, PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – Patients treated with intradiscal biacuplasty (IDB) for discogenic back pain maintained benefits a year later, and those who crossed over to IDB treatment mid-study reported similar gains, study investigators [...]
More Evidence of the Power of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplant to Block Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia and Tolerance
Feb. 18, 2016, PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – Cleveland Clinic researchers have found new evidence that modulating neuroinflammation with stem cell transplants may prove to be an effective strategy to treat both opioid tolerance (OT) and opioid-induced [...]
Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block is Found Fast, Effective and Safe for Postdural Puncture Headache in Obstetric Patients
Feb. 18, 2016, PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – New research suggests that sphenopalatine ganglion block (SPGB) relieves disabling headache from dural puncture faster than the usual care of epidural blood patch (EBP) and lacks the potential for [...]
Stanford Researchers Tout Successful CHOIR Rollout as Example of Private-Public Partnership That Works
Feb. 18, 2016, PALM SPRINGS, Calif. –- In an example of a successful private-public partnership, the creators of a technologically advanced national registry to collect data on the experience of pain sufferers and their responses to [...]
Study Shows Epidural Steroid Injections Associated With Lower Outpatient Costs in Low-Back Pain
Feb. 18, 2016, PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – Epidural steroid injections (ESIs) may help lower health care spending in patients with low-back pain, with most of the savings coming in outpatient care, new research suggests. Patients who [...]