Integrative Pain Management: Foundations (2024-2026)

Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 12:00 AM - Friday, February 27, 2026, 11:59 PM


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (12.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (12.00 hours)

Pain is a multifaceted issue involving nutritional, psychosocial, biochemical, neurological and physical components. The conventional medical model typically addresses pain in a unidimensional mode — with medications. With the growing awareness of the opioid epidemic, clinicians and patients are seeking to decrease pharmaceutical use and are turning to alternative therapies. The Foundations course offers a review of the physiology of pain, factors affecting the transition from acute to chronic, current pharmaceutical strategies, and opioid deprescribing.

1. Discuss strategies for de-prescribing opiate medications.
2. Recognize the current state of affairs for the management for chronic pain in the United States.
3. Discuss the role of Integrative Medicine in the management of pain.
4. Review the pathophysiology of acute pain and chronic pain.
5. Identify the risk factors that contribute to acute pain converting into chronic pain and discuss strategies for modification of these risk factors.
6. Review the current risks and benefits of pharmaceuticals for the management of pain.
7. Assess the evidence for the safety and benefit of nutrition, dietary supplements, herbal therapies, Traditional Chinese Medicine, hypnosis, mindfulness, guided imagery, biofeedback, energy medicine and movement and therapies for the management of pain.
8. Recognize when modalities are indicated or contraindicated.
9. Recognize effective integrative treatments based on the strength of evidence for pain states.

https://awcim.arizona.edu/online_courses/IPM_foundations.html

The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 12.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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