Oakstone Comprehensive Review of Pain Medicine 2025

• Target Audience: anesthesiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, emergency physicians, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, dentists, oral surgeons, internists, and family physicians
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Pain Medicine CME: Expert Guidelines and More

Clinically active, multidisciplinary faculty share guidelines for assessment of a patient’s unique situation and their experienced perspectives regarding the links between pain treatment and disease mechanisms. Along with clinical updates in musculoskeletal pain, neuroaugmentation, and cancer-related pain, featured continuing medical education topic areas include:

Managing the medical-legal risks of chronic opioid prescribing

Healthcare disparities and underserved patients in pain medicine

Pain practice management

Advances in pain physiology and treatment

Interventional pain procedures

Date of Original Release: March 31, 2025

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

Differentiate between shoulder pain and cervical pain

Describe the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion to successful management of patients with pain

Explain the difference between nociplastic pain and nociceptive pain

Describe a comprehensive and holistic interdisciplinary approach to managing chronic pain

Recognize the overlap of pain and mood when treating suffering and emotional distress

List the etiologies of orofacial pain

Summarize the neurophysiology of DRG stimulation

Recognize the comorbidity of chronic pain, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury in veterans

List the interdisciplinary tools available to treat thoracic back pain

Identify bony, vascular, nerve, and muscular anatomy of the hip

Explain how spinal cord stimulation effectively treats refractory visceral pain syndromes

Describe the importance of careful patient selection and knowledge of limitations and risks when deciding on an interventional therapy

List the types of Parkinson’s disease-related pain

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for anesthesiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, emergency physicians, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, dentists, oral surgeons, internists, and family physicians.

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