Visual Artists Tackle What Pain Looks Like

PPM Editorial Board

Incorporating nutrition into pain management may offer a more cost-effective option for patients.

Don’t Discount the Role of Diet for Chronic Pain Relief

How to determine risk factors of obstructive apnea and opioid use.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and central sleep apnea (CSA) are sleep-related breathing disorders, in which the patient has impaired ventilation during sleep and sleep disruption. OSA is more common and often presents with daytime sleepiness and impaired daily function or behavioral problems in children.

Gasping for Air: Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Chronic Opioids

How clinicians speak – and listen – to patients affects their engagement, perceptions, and outcomes.

How clinicians speak – and listen – to patients with chronic pain affects their engagement, perceptions, and outcomes.

Treating Pain by Overcoming Communication Barriers

How better outcomes, reduced costs, and payer demands necessitate improved patient instruction.

Patient education efforts could reduce unnecessary admissions, phone calls, or visits to healthcare providers (HCPs); time and money spent by providers and patients; and dependence on strong medication for pain.

Will 2020 Be the Year of Patient Education?

Chronic Pain Management

Pain Management

Artists are making intractable pain visible.

Volume 20, Issue 1

Lynn R. Webster, MD, FACPM, FASAM

Jeff Gudin, MD

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Pain Management

Jeffrey Fudin, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, FFSMB

Jeffrey Fudin, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP

In the kick-off to a new PPM conversation series, icon Dr. Webster shares his vision, from the beginning of pain management as a specialty to a future where digital medicine and behavioral support may lead the way.

Lynn Webster, MD, shares his vision on the pain management industry, from the beginning of pain care as a specialty to a future where digital medicine and behavioral support may lead the way. Led by Jeff Gudin, MD, and Jeffrey Fudin, PharmD.

20/20 with Lynn Webster, MD

Porting

Visual artists are trying to make the opioid crisis visible through photographs and digital art. Inside BioDelivery Sciences International "This is Pain" campaign and Justin J Wee's "How I Hurt" series.

Katie Bennett, JD

Opioid Management

Legislatures and insurers are crafting policies that encourage, incentivize, and, in some cases, mandate the use of alternatives to opioid pain therapy.

States are changing prescribing and training policies to promote opioid alternatives for chronic pain.

The Rapid Rise of Non-Opioid Pain Policies

Rebekka L Burch, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Pain Management

Timothy J. Atkinson, PharmD, BCPS, CPE

Analgesics & Pain Medications

The breakthrough therapy difelikefalin may change approaches to treating inflammatory pain as well as chronic kidney disease-associated pruritis.

FDA designated breakthrough therapy difelikefalin/CR845 (Korsuva) from Cara Therapeutics may change approaches to treating inflammatory pain as well as chronic kidney disease-associated pruritis.

Peripheral Kappa Opioid Receptor Agonists

Sota Omoigui, MD

Oxygen therapy may prevent the vaso-occlusion and disruption of tissue oxygenation that often lead to painful sickle cell disease crises.

A case for using oxygen therapy to prevent a sickle cell disease (SCD) crisis.

Sickle Cell Pain Crisis: Clinical Guidelines for the Use of Oxygen

Elizabeth St. Laurent, MS

Grace J. Kim, OMSII

Assistant Professor, Osteopathic Medicine

James F. Keane, DO, MEd

Assistant Vice President for Clinical Education Development

Leonard Goldstein, DDS, PhD

Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation

An integrated treatment approach for these comorbid conditions includes better sleep, exercise, and diet. Plus, how osteopathic manipulation can have a positive impact.

Obesity, nutrition, diet, and chronic pain are interconnected. An integrated approach for treating these comorbid conditions includes better sleep, exercise, and diet. Plus, how osteopathic manipulation can have a positive impact.

Obesity and Pain Care: Multifaceted Considerations for Treatment

Avery Hurt

Is sickle cell disease nociceptive or neuropathic? Perhaps neither.

Researchers are trying to determine whether pain related to sickle cell disease is nociceptive or neuropathic, and how little this complex condition is understood.

The Complexity of Sickle Cell Pain:  An Overview

Sunali Wadehra, MD

Eric Matteson, MD, PhD

Don L.  Goldenberg, MD

Rheumatoid Arthritis

There are important links between obesity and RA, including risk and drug effectiveness.

A long-standing concern in the medical community, obesity is known to affect more than 90 million adults in the United States and often results in widely known health consequences, such as heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.¹ More recently, obesity has been linked to inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as well as widespread chronic pain.²˒³

Obesity and Rheumatoid Arthritis: What Clinicians Should Know

Mihir Joshi, MD

Brian Mendoza Bruel, MD

Chemical neurolysis, radiofrequency neurotomy, and cordotomy offer appropriate treatments for patients with localized, severe, medically intractable pain.

Chemical neurolysis, radiofrequency neurotomy, and cordotomy may be appropriate for certain cancer patients with localized, severe, medically intractable pain.

Neurodestructive Interventions for Cancer Pain

Lauren Shirley, PharmD

Abigail Brooks, PharmD, BCPS

Insomnia & Sleep Disorders

Sleep Disorders

Allison Hotop, PharmD Candidate

McKenzie C. Ferguson, PharmD, BCPS

Interventional Pain Procedures

What current research says on using botox for joint pain, pelvic pain, peripheral neuropathy, maxillofacial pain, and more.

What current research says on using Botox for joint pain, knee pain, osteoarthritis, pelvic pain, peripheral neuropathy, maxillofacial pain, and more.

How can botulinum toxin be used in chronic pain syndromes?

Karen R Crowley, DNP, APRN-BC, WHNP, ANP, CNE

Karen R. Crowley, DNP, APRN-BC, WHNP

Editorial Board P. Visual Artists Tackle What Pain Looks Like. Pract Pain Manag. 2020;20(1).