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Jeffery A. Zuckerman
January 29, 2021
Hormone Replacement in Pain Management
Dr. Jeffrey A. Zuckerman discusses the value of hormone replacement therapy in pain management for men and women. He begins by debunking several common misconceptions about hormone replacement therapy. He next describes common conditions...
January 15, 2021
Anesthetic Techniques on the Battlefield
Dr. Kenneth Candido discusses anesthetic techniques on the battlefield. He starts by outlining anesthetic options, emphasizing the value of continuous regional anesthesia, before turning to treatment methods. Using the example of ultrasound-guided intercostal nerve...
January 8, 2021
Your License and Liability
Elizabeth Shaw, Esq. discusses license and liability for physicians who issue certifications for medical marijuana to patients in Florida. After introducing federal law and loopholes, she details physician certification requirements and qualifications. She next...
Scott Griffith
January 8, 2021
What Can Military Medicine Teach Us
Dr. Scott Griffith talks about what pain physicians can learn from military medicine. He begins with a recent history of military contributions to pain medicine and highlights key technological advances. He discusses acute and...
December 30, 2020
Planning for Retirement
Wealth advisor David Albaneze discusses strategies for physicians to maximize retirement savings. He starts with an examination of how current income and lifestyle affect future retirement savings. He then defines how to estimate the...
Jeffery A. Zuckerman
December 18, 2020
The Younger Generation
Dr. Jeffrey A. Zuckerman discusses causes and effects of endocrine disruption, with particular attention to long-term opiate use. Dr. Zuckerman begins by describing sources of exogenous hormones (xenohormones) and their contribution to endocrine disruption....
December 4, 2020
Stimulation for Peripheral Joint Pain
Dr. Hans Hansen describes the value of peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) for joint pain and other peripheral pain conditions in clinical practice. He begins by introducing recent innovations to the conventional implantable pulse generator....
Nebojsa Nick Knezevic
November 24, 2020
Molecular Biology of Pain
Dr. Nebojsa Nick Knezevic discusses innovative strategies to target the molecular mechanisms of pain. After reviewing nociceptive and neuropathic pain, inflammatory cytokines, and nociceptor diversity, he introduces pain-related voltage gated ion channels, glial and...
Sandeep Dhanjal
November 20, 2020
Regional and Pharmacological Techniques
Dr. Sandeep Dhanjal introduces pain management techniques used in the war. He discusses unique characteristics of pain treatment on the battlefield and how pain physicians gain access to their patients. He defines multimodal therapy...
Steven M. Falowski
November 11, 2020
Future of Neuromodulation
Dr. Steven M. Falowski discusses recent innovations in neuromodulation. He begins with an overview of paresthesia mapping versus intraoperative neuromonitoring for accurate lead placement before turning to new stimulation protocols. Dr. Falowski shows that...
October 8, 2020
Evidence Based Guidelines
Dr. Kenneth Candido starts his discussion by asking, “What is evidence?” He discusses the difference between political and medical science, how they influence evidence-based practice, and the role of bias and conflicts-of-interest in evidence-based...
Quang Nguyen
September 23, 2020
Minimally Invasive Techniques Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Dr. Quang Nguyen discusses two minimally invasive treatments for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). He begins with an overview of LSS statistics and how LSS affects functional spinal anatomy. He then introduces spinal cord decompression...
Vincent Galan
September 23, 2020
Making Sense of Coverage Policies in Neuromodulation
Dr. Vincent Galan discusses the importance of understanding insurance coverage policies for physicians who provide neuromodulation therapies. He begins by describing challenges associated with getting patients approved before turning to how payer guidelines are...
Kenneth Candido
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September 10, 2020
Battlefield Medicine Panel
An esteemed panel of military and civilian pain physicians answer questions about battlefield medicine and how it translates to civilian practice. Among the issues that they address are the most challenging aspects of pain...
September 2, 2020
Neuromodulation Panel
An esteemed panel of neuromodulation experts addresses audience questions about the theory and practice of spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion stimulation. They discuss how to manage opioid use in neuromodulation patients, the difference...
Roger B. Fillingim
August 20, 2020
Let’s Get Personal: Using Genetic and Environmental Factors to Guide Pain Treatment
Dr. Roger Fillingim discusses the value of a comprehensive approach to personalized medicine. After discussing the value of CYP2D6 genotyping to predict opioid efficiency, he shows that drug interactions drive CYP2D6 phenoconversion in some...
August 14, 2020
Painful Intervertebral Disc
Dr. Aaron Calodney discusses interventions for intervertebral disc pain. He begins by introducing the anatomy and microenvironment of the vertebral disc within the lumbar discovertebral complex, highlighting the importance of proteoglycans in preventing degenerative...
August 5, 2020
The Art and Science of Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Aaron Calodney discusses the relationship between the art (application) and science of regenerative medicine. After reviewing regenerative medicine biology, he describes methods of cellular and molecular quantification that predict outcomes. He also considers...
July 30, 2020
Analgesics of the Future
Dr. Stanley Golovac discusses the importance of innovation in analgesics. Dr. Golovac makes several suggestions, including shifting from VAS scores to measures of functionality, use of alternative analgesics, and the need for new, evidence-based...
Jason Pope
July 15, 2020
Intrathecal Pharmacokinetics
Dr. Jason Pope discusses intrathecal drug pharmacokinetics. He begins by reviewing theories of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow and the importance of understanding how bidirectional, oscillatory flow affects intrathecal pharmacokinetics with respect to bolus and...