Pain Management

The 2022 PAINWeek and BRAINWeek conferences, Sept. 6-9 and Sept. 28-30 in Las Vegas, will feature migraine tracks presented by the world-renowned Diamond Headache Clinic.

The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and the Interventional Pain Management Tracks will return to the PAINWeek National Conference, taking place Sept. 6-9 in Las Vegas.

This year’s PAINWeek conference, Sept. 6-9 in Las Vegas, will feature more than 75 credit hours of pain management tracks, including the Advanced Practice Provider Track, featuring diverse faculty with expertise in pain management.

ORLANDO — Medical cannabis is growing in acceptance and has benefits for managing pain in patients with rheumatic diseases, but more research is required, a presenter said at the 2022 Rheumatology Nurses Society Conference.

The National Football League Alumni Association and Pacira BioSciences Inc. have announced a partnership that will provide education to athletes and communities about non-opioid pain management options, according to a press release.

Following the release of opioid prescription guidance from the CDC in 2016, nonopioid pain prescriptions increased every year through 2019, researchers wrote in JAMA Network Open.

Black patients with serious illness receive inferior pain management and poor communication from providers compared with their white counterparts, according to data released by Center to Advance Palliative Care.

Among patients with myositis, younger individuals with dermatomyositis are more likely to experience pain, while those with polymyositis are more likely to receive opioids, according to data published in Rheumatology.

In patients with CV risks, there was a correlation between acetaminophen use and elevated systolic BP, according to a meta-analysis in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Adolescents and young adults with sarcoma prescribed opioids for pain often continued using those substances after treatment completion, according to study results published in Cancer.