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Best Practices Are Still Largely Undefined in Task Force Report
While the inter-agency pain management task force identified several gaps in practice, many questions still remain for HCPs.
The Inter-Agency Pain Management Task Force Final Draft Report on Best Practice: What Providers Should Know
Inside the HHS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force draft final recommendations, including the task force's take on the CDC guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain.
Finally, A Systematic Classification of Pain (the ICD-11)
IASP Task Force Member Joachim Scholz, MD, provides an inside look at the new ICD-11, including expanded criteria for neuropathic pain, and how the integration of chronic pain may benefit pain practice going forward.
Could a Personalized Approach to Therapy End the War on Pain?
Beyond NSAIDs and opioids: genes and pharmacogenomics may soon impact the assessment and treatment of chronic pain conditions.
Children, Opioids, and Pain: The Stats & Clinical Guidelines
When prescribing opioids to children for pain, clinicians need to be aware of the statistics and consensus recommendations.
Nocebo Effects: How to Prevent them in Patients
How to adjust for the many factors that may lie in a patient's expectations and response to treatment.
The Many Gender Gaps in Pain Medicine
Chronic pain in women is a highly personalized, specific experience, and clinicians should combat the pain disparities against women.
Lessons Learned in Measuring Pain and Prescribing
A roundtable discussion from the California-based Cooperative of American Physicians.
Letters to the Editor: DEA and Prescribing, the War on Statistics, Failing Treatments, Patients' Options
One reader warns of working with the DEA, being careful on what pain practitioners choose to ask and share.
Editorial: The Practicality of Pain Acceptance
After the concept of "pain acceptance" sparks debate among patients living with chronic pain conditions, our editorial advisors weigh in.
Harnessing the Power of Words
Receiving new information such as a test result may set off a self-perpetuating cycle of symptom amplification.
Anger Expression & Chronic Pain
Research has associated intermittent explosive disorder with arthritis, back/neck pain, headaches, and other chronic pain conditions.
Reporting Metrics, Media Coverage...Letters from the Minds of Peers and Patients
One writer warns of the credibility of certain collected data, while another writes on media's relationship to practitioners.
Canadian Chiropractic Guideline Initiative
Updated guidelines for chiropractic care for neck pain and whiplash
No More “Fifth Vital Sign”
Don't ask, Don't tell. Dr. Jennifer Schneider discusses the AMA's recommendation to remove pain as a vital sign.
CDC Issues Final Guidelines for Opioid Prescribing: PPM Editorial Board Responds
PPM's Editorial Board weighs in on the CDC Recommendations for Opioid Prescribing. Learn more about how the guidelines were received by various representatives of the pain management community.
Editor's Memo: The WHO Pain Treatment 3-Step Ladder
A few days ago, I gave a lecture to a group of pain practitioners composed of physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, psychologists, and pharmacists. Less than half of the audience reported being familiar with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 3-step ladder of pain control, which I consider the gold standard for pain management.
Clinical Diagnosis of Centralized Pain in the Age of ICD 10
PPM Centralized Pain Consensus Task Force has proposed recommendations for the diagnosis of centralized pain.
PROMIS Pain-Related Measures: An Overview
PROMIS was developed to target important health outcomes across various chronic diseases. The pain-related domains include items for pain intensity, interference, behavior, and quality.
New Guide to Migraine Rx Garners Mixed Reviews
The American Headache Society has released a comprehensive review of migraine therapies, but some experts in the field have found the results somewhat perplexing, even misleading.
Insomnia: Focus on New Dosing Concerns In Women
Sufficient sleep increasingly has been recognized as a key component of chronic disease prevention as well as overall health promotion.1 Insufficient sleep is associated with both the onset of, as well as difficulty in managing, chronic diseases.
Gout: New Guidelines for Managing An Ancient Disease
With improved understanding of the disease , more diverse therapies, and guidelines to lead the way, doctors are now positioned to help gout patients with this painful and debilitating disease.
Bringing Pain to the Forefront of Treatment
Newly developed guidelines for managing pain add validity to patients' complaints
Feedback and Response Regarding ACOEM’s Practice
RSDSA Comments on ACOEM’s Practice Guidelines In 2010, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) will be publishing the third edition of Occupat
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