AnesthesiologyVideos + PDFs2022
Harvard Evaluating and Treating Pain 2022 — five days of pain assessment, spine, headache, opioids and mind-body care
Harvard Evaluating and Treating Pain 2022 records the June 2022 run (20–24 June) of Harvard Medical School’s long-standing Boston pain course: 50 MP4 files and 20 PDFs, 10.79 GB in all. It starts where good pain care starts, with focused musculoskeletal, neurological and psychosocial examinations, then spends a day each on spinal and cancer pain, headache and neuropathic syndromes, drugs and addiction, and behavioural and pelvic pain. The course is built on a blunt premise: much pain is undertreated, and some treatment does harm.
- 50MP4 files
- 20PDF files
- 43scheduled lectures
- 10.79 GBdownload
What you’ll be able to do
- Run a targeted musculoskeletal and neurological examination of the patient in pain and decide when to refer
- Choose patients for opioids and other analgesics, titrate them, and understand the medico-legal ground rules
- Recognise when injections, stimulators or surgery are appropriate for spinal pain
- Distinguish cervicogenic headache, occipital neuralgia and migrainous cervicalgia
- Bring CBT, meditation, yoga and sleep strategies into chronic pain care
- Control pain at the end of life and in children using current guidance
Inside the course
Assessment and complementary therapy
The Monday block covers pain pathophysiology, three focused evaluations, fibromyalgia, disability assessment, supplements, yoga, acupuncture and tai chi.
Harvard Evaluating and Treating Pain: head, nerves and spine
Headache, craniofacial nerve blocks and botulinum toxin, post-herpetic and trigeminal neuralgia, CRPS, intracranial stimulation, peripheral neuropathy and ketamine, plus a day on low back and neck pain, spinal surgery and intervention.
Cancer, drugs and addiction
Cancer pain causes and interventions and the palliative view sit beside NSAIDs, medical marijuana, two opioid sessions, addiction psychopharmacology and withdrawal management.
Mind, body and what comes next
The Friday programme on cognitive behavioural therapy, sleep and meditation ends with pelvic pain, stem cells, new drugs and a look at the future of the field.
Built for
- Primary care physiciansA structured grounding in assessing and treating common pain problems.
- Anaesthesiologists and pain specialistsA multidisciplinary refresher spanning interventional and behavioural care.
- Psychologists and internistsSubstantial content on psychosocial assessment, CBT and addiction.
Syllabus
Monday 20 June 2022 10 lectures
- Lessons from the Past for Providing State-of-the-Art Pain Management in the Present
- Pathophysiology of Pain: A 2021 Update
- How to Perform a Focused Musculoskeletal Evaluation of the Patient in Pain
- How to Perform a Focused Neurologic Evaluation of the Patient in Pain
- Psychosocial Assessment of Pain and Guidance to Act or Refer Based Upon Your Findings
- Updates on Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain
- Practical Pointers for Performing a Disability Evaluation
- Herbal and Nutritional Supplements: What Works and What Doesn’t
- Science of Yoga to Relieve Stress, Anxiety and Pain
- Acupuncture, Tai Chi and Other Alternative Methods for Pain Relief
Tuesday 21 June 2022 9 lectures
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Headache in 2022
- Updates on Nerve Blocks, Botulinum Toxin, and Anatomy of Craniofacial Pain
- Cervicogenic Headache Vs. Occipital Neuralgia Vs. Migrainous Cervicalgia
- Post Herpetic Neuralgia, Post Herpetic Itch, and Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Mechanism Based Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
- Update on the Evaluation and Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Intracranial Stimulation for Refractory Pain
- Update on the Management of Peripheral Neuropathy
- Ketamine for Refractory Neuropathic Pain
Wednesday 22 June 2022 8 lectures
- Update on the Pathophysiology of Low Back Pain and How to Differentiate Its Cause
- How to Deliver the Best Care for Neck and Back Pain
- When and Why to Consider Surgical Management of Spinal Pain
- Interventional Techniques for Spinal Pain
- Oral and Facial Pain
- Causes of Cancer Pain and Expanded Options for Its Management
- Interventional Techniques for Cancer Pain Management
- Pain Management A Palliative Care Perspective
Thursday 23 June 2022 8 lectures
- Updates on NSAIDS & COX-2 Inhibitors
- Medical Marijuana: If, When, Why and How to Prescribe for Pain
- Opioids: Pharmacologic Update
- Opioids: Rational Prescribing and Medico-legal Considerations
- Addiction Psychopharmacology Update
- Current Approaches to Opioid Withdrawal Management
- Medical and Surgical Treatment of Joint Pain
- Foot Pain
Friday 24 June 2022 8 lectures
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Sleep in the Pain Patient
- Helping the Mind Heal the Body: Mind/Body Approaches to Pain Medicine
- The Use of Meditation to Assist in Chronic Pain Management
- Pelvic Pain
- Stem Cell Therapy for Pain
- New Pain Medications
- The Future of Pain Medicine
Before you buy
Should I choose the 2022 Harvard pain course or a later year?
2022 is an older edition. The 2024 recording (MS-15649) and the 2026 on-demand conference (MS-35494) are also stocked if you want more recent opioid and device content.
Are individual Harvard pain lecturers named for 2022?
Only the session moderators are listed (including Carol A. Warfield, Thomas T. Simopoulos, Mihir Kamdar, Syed Mahmood, Balachundhar Subramaniam and Jyotsna Nagda), not the speaker for each talk.
Why 50 videos for 43 lectures?
The extra files most likely hold the daily expert question panels and opening remarks; a file-by-file list is not provided.
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | 50 MP4 + 20 PDF files |
|---|---|
| Size | 10.79 GB |
| Recorded | 20–24 June 2022 |
| Organiser | Harvard Medical School |
| Department | Anesthesiology |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |
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