Palm Springs, CA—The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2016 Pain Medicine Fellowship Excellence Awards. The awards recognize Pain Medicine Fellowship Programs that provide an exceptional learning experience, [...]
February 18, 2016, PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is pleased to announce its Pain Medicine 2016 Awards and Presidential Commendations for exceptional service to the Academy and/or the field of [...]
March 28, 2016, CHICAGO, Ill – The Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) enthusiastically endorses the National Pain Strategy (NPS) issued earlier this month by the US Department of Health and Human [...]
March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – Chronic pain from nerve injury is common and often debilitating. Current treatment options for neuropathic pain include physical, cognitive, behavioral, pharmacological, interventional, and surgical therapies. Unfortunately, none of these therapies is particularly [...]
March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – Negative consequences from opioid prescribing stem in part from a lack of education and skills training in all levels of medical education. A 2011 study that assessed U.S. and Canadian medical [...]
March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – Deaths from drug overdose have increased sharply in the past decade, an unfortunate trend that is associated with overdoes of prescription opioid pain relievers more than tripling from 1983 to 2013 [...]
March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – Up to half of older adults (aged 60 years or more) report experiencing chronic pain. A study presented today at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 33rd Annual Meeting as a [...]
March 16, 2017, ORLANDO, Fla. – High utilizers of medical services account for disproportionate healthcare costs, with up to 21% of expenditures spent treating the top 1% of patients (Jiang et al, Characteristics of Hospital Stays for [...]
Action planned to discuss and organize medicine's response to the public health crisis of pain (and opioid addiction)CHICAGO—A Future of Pain Care resolution, introduced by the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) to the American Medical Association [...]
{niceaccess:3} !-- Learn how to be an advocate for the field of pain and its patients. AAPM’s mission is to advance and promote the full spectrum of multidisciplinary pain care, education, advocacy, and research to [...]
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