FELLOWSHIP MEDICAL COURSE PAIN MANAGEMENT

What Will You Learn?

• 1.Anatomy of the Pain Processing System
• 2.Applied Physiology, Receptors and Neurotransmitters
• Evaluation of the Patient in Pain
• 1. Classification, Definitions and Terminologies
• 2.History focused on Pain
• 3. Treatment History
• 4. Medical Diagnosis
• 5.Psychological Assessment using Appropriate Communication
• 6.Assessment of Social and Spiritual Issues
• 7. Evaluation and Rating of Disability and Psychological Impact,
• 8.Rehabilitation
• 9.Appropriate investigations
• Management of Pain by a Multidisciplinary ‘Whole
• person’ Approach
• 1.Pharmacological
• 2.Interventional Therapies
• 3.Advanced Pain Therapies:
• 4. Management of Psychological Issues
• 5.Complementary Therapies
• Management of Acute pain
• 1. Post-operative pain and post-trauma pain
• 2.Pharmacological, Interventional
• Treatment of Regional Pain Syndromes
• 1.Headache
• 2.Facial Pain Syndrome
• 3. Neck and Upper Back Pain
• 4.Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• 5.Thoracic and Abdominal Pain
• 6. Low Back Pain
• 7.Pelvic and Perineal Pain
• Common Pain Conditions
• 1.Neuropathic Pain
• 2.Post-Herpetic Neuralgia
• 3.Diabetic Neuropathy
• 4.Peripheral Neuropathies
• 5.Phantom Limb Pain
• 6. Fibromyalgia
• 7.Myofascial Syndrome
• 8.Arthritis
• 9. Pain in Children and Elderl