Florida Law Lowers Opioid Use for Acute Post-Op Pain
A new controlled substance law in Florida has helped to decrease opioid prescriptions after outpatient surgery, according to a retrospective analysis at a large academic center. Full story.
Human Translingual Neurostimulation Alters Resting Brain Activity in High-Density EEG
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.
AAPM Issues Updated Position Statement on Research into the Use of Cannabinoids for Medical Purposes
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 [...]
Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems Overview with Dr. Susan Moeschler
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 [...]
AAPM Endorses Pain Management Task Force Final Report on Best Practices for Treatment of Pain
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 [...]
2020 Annual Meeting
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 [...]
Can Tech ‘Objectively’ Assess Pain?
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.
Trialing of ISS in Patients With CRPS
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 [...]
In Lab, SLU Researchers Flip Pain Switch in Spinal Cord Cells
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.
Multiple Brain Regions Moderate and Link Depressive Mood and Pain
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.