NIH Pain Consortium’s first pain care curriculum improves clinical skills - NIH.gov
An online training module designed for the evaluation and care of chronic pain greatly improved medical student clinical skills, according to a report in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The module, built by the University of Pittsburgh and using an elderly woman with chronic lower back pain as a case study, is the first curriculum resource created through the efforts of the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium's Centers of Excellence in Pain Education program (CoEPEs). The program was developed in response to the Affordable Care Act's mandate to advance the science, research, care and education of ...
Source: Psychology of Pain - June 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Study examines back pain and depression in seniors - Senior's Health - Press of Atlantic City
Researchers at the Univ-ersity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are studying the most effective means of treating chronic low back pain and symptoms of depression - together - in those 60 or older.The ADAPT (Addressing Depression And Pain Together) study has been going on for four years. Seventy-five men and 123 women, ranging in age from 60 to 94, have taken part.About a third of seniors suffer from low back pain. Nearly 20 percent of Americans age 65 and older have clinically significant symptoms of depression, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.Up to 25 percent of seniors may suffer from both, said Dr....
Source: Psychology of Pain - May 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
A Five-Dimensional View of Pain | Pain Research Forum
Leaders of a major effort to systematically classify all common chronic pain conditions expect to have the first stage completed by mid-July 2014. The Pain Taxonomy, a project of the ACTTION public-private partnership, and the American Pain Society is one of two independent initiatives launched last spring to fill a widely perceived need for an updated evidence-based approach to improve diagnosis, treatment, and research of chronic pain (seePRF related news story). Key issues and decisions of the initial consensus meeting held in May 2013 are summed up in the March 2014 issue of The Journal of Pain. The paper also des...
Source: Psychology of Pain - April 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Endo Health Solutions Lidoderm Settlement and Corporate Integrity Agreement, CME Obligations
Endo Health Solutions, Inc. and its subsidiary Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Endo) have agreed to pay $171.9 million to resolve civil allegations of marketing their adhesive pain patch Lidoderm for off-label uses. As part of the settlement, Endo will enter into a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announcement states: "[F]rom March 1999 through December 2007, Endo caused false claims to be submitted to federal health care programs…by promoting Lidoderm for unapproved uses, some of which were not medically accep...
Source: Policy and Medicine - March 11, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Five Simple Ways To Beat Low Back Pain
Have you ever suffered from low back pain? If not, you’re in the minority. 80% of people will at some stage experience this debilitating condition.So, if you do suffer from back pain, what action can you take to solve the problem?Well, the first priority is to change your perception of the pain.Working as a physiotherapist for the last ten years, I’ve treated numerous patients who complain that their condition is either hereditary or an inevitability. They refuse to be held accountable, and feel incapable of managing the problem.This type of attitude gives back pain the power.The truth is that the vast majority of back...
Source: Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life - March 7, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: David Source Type: blogs
