PAIN DIPLOMA

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The diploma aims to:

Enable all physicians to manage pain patients in both acute and chronic pain conditions.

To help physicians develop pain centers and multidisciplinary approaches

To help physicians establish better communication between primary and secondary care physicians in the difficult management of chronic pain

To learn new pain management techniques and interventions with a focus on utilizing ultrasound guidance rather than fluoroscopy
Learning objectives

Symposium and workshop

Anatomical basis for pain pathways, neurophysiological basis, mechanisms of pain control.

Pain classifications?: Acute and chronic pain. Nociceptive, neuropathic, dysfunctional pain and psychogenic pain

Ethics in pain

The burden of pain, cost of acute and chronic pain

Pain assessment?: pain dimensions and specific tools for pain assessment, psychological and psychopathological disorders

Kinesiophobia, fear of pain and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies for pain management

Pharmacological basis for pain treatments?: WHO ladder for pain analgesics

Co-analgesics for pain : antidepressants, anticonvulsants, ketamine, and other analgesics

Neuropathic pain; pathophysiology, clinical assessment and therapeutic approaches

Migraine and orofacial pain?: pathophysiology, clinical assessment and therapeutic approaches

Pain in cancer, breakthrough pain

Lower back pain and radiculopathies, the failed back surgery syndrome

CRPS type 1 and 2

Pain in arterial diseases

Visceral pain?: abdominal, pelvic, uro-genital pain

Pain in HIV patients

Pain in children

Pain in elderly patients

Acute pain?: post-operative pain and post-traumatic pain

Procedural pain?: pain related to care management

Physiotherapy and rehabilitation for pain

Alternate therapy in pain medicine?: acupuncture, relaxation, Les therapeutiques physiques. L'acupuncture.

Loco-regional techniques for pain management

Surgery for pain

Neuromodulation for pain management

Psychological approaches in pain patients

Palliative care and pain management

Myofascial syndromes

US scanning techniques of musculoskeletal pain

US guided injection techniques

Clinical attendance - 5 days in a designated and accredited Pain Center

a) Mandatory objectives?:

- Specialized consultations in pain

- Participation in multidisciplinary meeting to evaluate files and therapeutic strategies

- Participation in other therapies (TENS,Blocks…)

b) Optional objectives

- Acute and chronic pain patients in wards

- Pain in kids

- Pain in cancer patients

- Palliative care

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