Pain Medicine Journal

Pain Medicine is dedicated to pain clinicians, educators, and researchers with an interest in pain from various medical specialties and related health disciplines. The journal reflects the rapid growth in pain science and practice, as well as the field’s need for policy, ethical, and forensic commentary on pain and its management. It promotes the visibility and development of pain medicine as a worldwide interdisciplinary medical specialty within a collaborative, multidisciplinary pain field.

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Consensus practice guidelines on sacroiliac joint complex pain from a multispecialty, international working group

Abstract Background:

The past two decades have witnessed tremendous growth in the appreciation and treatment of sacroiliac joint (SIJ) complex pain, including anatomical dissections that shed light on innervation, an appreciation for the contribution of extra-articular components to SIJ complex pain, the advent of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and a host of minimally invasive surgical techniques. Yet, there is no standardization on diagnosis and treatment paradigms.

 

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Table of Contents: Volume 26, Issue 12, December 2025

Editorial

  • Editorial Commentary: Bridging evidence and practice in sacroiliac joint complex pain management.

Interventional Pain & Spine Medicine Section

  • Consensus practice guidelines on sacroiliac joint complex pain from a multispecialty, international working group
  • Safety and initial effectiveness of minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion with metal implants using a lateral transiliac approach: a prospective trial

Pain & Aging Section

  • Psychometric properties of the knee osteoarthritis pain index

Infographic

  • Sacroiliac joint complex pain consensus practice guidelines from a multispecialty, international working group: an infographic

Research Letters

  • A survey of pain fellowship program directors on medical simulation
  • Geographic disparities in access to chronic pain clinical trials in the United States
  • Characteristics of noncancer chronic pain-associated ambulatory care visits, 2018–2019

Letter to the Editor

  • Beyond balance: the cerebellum and pain

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