Essentials of Pain Medicine

Section 1: Basic Considerations<br>1. Anatomy and Physiology of the Pain Signaling Process<br>2. Neurochemistry of Somatosensory and Pain Processing<br>3. Taxonomy: Definition of Pain Terms and Chronic Pain Syndromes<br><br>Section 2: Clinical Evaluation and Diagnostic Examinations<br>4. Physical Examination of the Patient with Pain<br>5. Pain Assessment<br>6. Psychological Evaluation and Testing<br>7. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and Pain Management<br>8. Neurophysiologic Testing for Pain<br>9. Anatomy, Imaging and Common Pain-Generating Degenerative Pathologies of the Spine<br>10. Determination of Disability<br><br>Section 3: Perioperative Pain Management<br>11. Preventive Analgesia<br>12. Perioperative Nonopioid Infusions for Postoperative Pain Management<br>13. Patient-Controlled Analgesia<br>14. Intrathecal Opioid Injections for Postoperative Pain<br>15. Epidural Opioids for Postoperative Pain<br>16. Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks<br>17. Pediatric Postoperative Pain<br>18. Chronic Pain After Surgery<br><br>Section 4: Chronic Pain Syndromes<br>19. Migraine Headache and the Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias (TAC)<br>20. Tension-Type Headache, Chronic Tension-Type Headache, and Other Chronic Headache Types<br>21. Postmeningeal Puncture Headache and Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension<br>22. Cervicogenic Headache<br>23. Orofacial Pain<br>24. Overview of Low Back Pain Disorders<br>25. Myofascial Pain Syndrome<br>26. Fibromyalgia and Centralized Pain States<br>27. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome<br>28. Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia<br>29. Postamputation Pain<br>30. Central Pain States<br>31. Pelvic Pain<br>32. Painful Peripheral Neuropathies<br>33. Entrapment Neuropathies<br><br>Section 5: Cancer Pain and Pain in Special Situations<br>34. Approach to Management of Cancer Pain<br>35. Management of Pain at End of Life<br>36. Pain Management in the Emergency Department<br>37. Chronic Pain Management in Children and Adolescents<br>38. Sickle Cell Pain<br>39. Pain Management During Pregnancy and Lactation<br>40. Pain Control in the Critically Ill Patient<br>41. Geriatric Pain<br><br>Section 6: Pharmacology and Pharmacologic Modalities<br>42. Major Opioids and Pain Management<br>43. Opioids Used for Mild to Moderate Pain<br>44. The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic and Emerging Prescribing Guidelines<br>45. Legal and Regulatory Issues in Pain Management<br>46. Urine Drug Testing<br>47. Substance Use Disorders and Detoxification<br>48. Psychopharmacology for Pain Medicine<br>49. Membrane Stabilizers<br>50. Recommendations for Pharmacological Therapy of Neuropathic Pain<br>51. Nonopioid Analgesics: NSAIDs, COX-2 Inhibitors, and Acetaminophen<br>52. Intravenous Infusions for Refractory Cancer and Chronic Pain States<br>53. Pharmacologic Management of Myofascial Pain<br>54. Pharmacologic Management of CRPS<br>55. Pharmacology for the Interventional Pain Physician<br>56. Role of Cannabinoids in Pain Management<br><br>Section 7: Therapeutic Interventions<br>57. Ablative Neurosurgical Procedures for Treatment of Chronic Pain<br>58. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Approaches to Pain Management<br>59. Psychological Interventions for Chronic Pain<br>60. Acupuncture<br>61. Tai Chi and Chronic Pain<br><br>Section 8: Interventional Techniques for Pain Management<br>62. Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections for Lumbosacral Radicular Pain<br>63. Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections and Selective Nerve Root Blocks<br>64. ANTI TNF – α Drugs and DMARDs for Low Back Pain <br>65. Facet Syndrome<br>66. Sacroiliac Joint Syndrome<br>67. Piriformis Syndrome<br>68. Pulsed Radiofrequency, Water-Cooled Radiofrequency, and Cryoneurolysis<br>69. Discography<br>70. Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty<br>71. Neurolytic Sympathetic Blocks<br>72. Central and Peripheral Neurolysis<br>73. Spinal Cord Stimulation<br>74. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation<br>75. Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation<br>76. Implanted Drug Delivery Systems for the Control of Chronic Pain<br>77. Fluoroscopy and Radiation Safety<br>78. Efficacy of Interventional Procedures for Neuropathic Pain<br><br>Section 9: Other Nerve Blocks in Pain Medicine<br>79. Ultrasound-Guided Procedures for Pain Management<br>80. Deep Muscle Injections: Piriformis, Scalene Muscle, Iliposoas Injections<br>81. Ultrasound-Guided Musculoskeletal Injections--Shoulder, Hip, and Knee<br>82. Head and Neck Blocks<br>83. Truncal Blocks: Intercostal, Paravertebral, Interpleural, Tap, Suprascapular, Ilioinguinal, and Iliohypogastric Nerve Blocks<br>84. Sympathetic Blocks: Stellate Ganglion, Lumbar Sympathetic Blocks, and Visceral Sympathetic Blocks -- Fluoroscopy and Ultrasound-Guided<br>85. Interventional Pain Procedures in Patients on Anticoagulants<br>86. Interventional Pain Procedures and the Risk of Infection