Discover Perspectives of Pain Medicine Practitioners through AAPM’s Pain Pulse 2024 Survey Results Does it feel like pain medicine is constantly changing and evolving? Is your practice staying ahead of trends and emerging concerns? [...]
The Abstract Poster gallery from our 38th Annual Meeting is now available to view. Each poster featured on the gallery was presented at our 38th Annual Meeting held March 17-20, 2022, at the Kierland [...]
The below letter was submitted to the Louisiana State House of Representatives’ Health and Welfare Committee and bill sponsor, Representative Illg on 5/10/22. Re: House Bill 941 Dear Representative Illg, Chairman Bagley, and members [...]
The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), the nation’s preeminent physician-led multispecialty pain management association, is proud of our mission dedicated to advancing multidisciplinary pain care, education, advocacy, and research to improve the quality [...]
The past 2 decades have witnessed a surge in the use of cervical spine joint procedures including joint injections, and nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation to treat chronic neck pain, yet many aspects of the [...]
AAPM has recently joined six (6) other Pain Specialty Societies on a letter to the Medicare Administrative Contractor Medical Directors supporting coverage of epidural injections for management of chronic pain. The letter provides detailed information about [...]
Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs that can form in or around your ovaries. They're actually very common and most often form naturally around the time of ovulation. Most simple ovarian cysts go away without treatment. [...]
Chronic pain is a condition in the nervous system where a light switch seemingly got turned on and never got turned off. Patients initially experience pain because of some type of injury that has occurred [...]
A new study presented at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, shows that after three months of treatment with oral methotrexate, adults with primary knee osteoarthritis (OA) with inflammation had significant improvements [...]
Researchers from the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research identified a new group of nerve cells, or neurons that carry a protein called neurokinin-1 receptor, or NK1R, which appear to be selectively involved in causing itchiness, [...]
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