Integrative Pain Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）： 慢性疼痛使近5000万美国人残疾，是最严重的疾病之一。 现代医疗保健中治疗不足的情况。老年人受影响最大 经常服用多种药物，这些药物具有未经检查的潜力 for interaction互动.因此，随着我们人口的老龄化， 对内科医生，老年病学家， 康复学家、肿瘤学家和所有与老年患者有关的人。 最近的研究还表明，人们使用 补充和替代医学（CAM）是针对疼痛的。然而， 在本科或研究生阶段教授传统的疼痛医学 水平，甚至更少关于常见的CAM疗法可以 适当地融入现代疼痛医学的临床实践中。 虽然有一些孤立的和一般短的程序对CAM的疼痛 在全国疼痛会议上提供，还没有一个完整的， 关于疼痛医学科学现状的综合会议， 专注于疼痛医学的综合方法。我们建议满足这一点 需要通过一个新的会议：“综合疼痛医学。“的目的 这个独特的和急需的计划将是给一个概述， 疼痛医学的证据基础，在一个综合模型，结合目前 传统药物与最好的CAM疗法。演讲者将是 要求批判性地审查目前的科学文献， 疼痛的各种疗法，并清楚地描述科学的状态。观众将是处理疼痛的临床医生。 会议的具体目标是：描述 现代疼痛医学;描述一些最好的传统和CAM疗法 用于疼痛管理;目前的研究数据，以支持传统和 CAM治疗疼痛;使临床医生知道如何识别和 评估合格的CAM从业人员，并了解如何与 并提供关于实用CAM集成的信息 治疗癌症和非癌症疼痛患者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Chronic pain disables almost 50 million Americans, and is one of the most under-treated conditions in modern health care. The elderly are most affected by pain, and often take multiple medications that have unexamined potential for interaction. Thus, as our population ages, non-pharmaceutical approaches to pain management will be of great value to internists, geriatricians, reheumatologists, oncologist and all those involved with older patients. Recent studies have also demonstrated that the primary reason people use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is for pain. Yet, very little is taught about conventional pain medicine at either the undergraduate or post-graduate levels, and even less about how common CAM therapies can appropriately be woven into the clinical practice of modern pain medicine. While there are a few isolated and generally short programs on CAM for pain offered at national pain meetings, there has not been a complete and comprehensive conference on the state-of-the-science of pain medicine, focusing on an integrated approach to pain medicine. We propose to meet this need through a new conference: "Integrative Pain Medicine." The purpose of this unique and much needed program will be to give an overview of the evidence base for pain medicine in an integrative model that combines current conventional medicines with the best of CAM therapies. The presenters will be asked to critically review the current scientific literature justifying the various therapies for pain, and to clearly describe the state-of-the-science. The audience will be practicing clinicians who deal with pain. The Specific Aims of the conference are to: Describe the fundamentals of modern pain medicine; Describe some of the best conventional and CAM therapies for use in pain management; Present research data to support conventional and CAM therapies for pain; Enable clinicians to know how to identify and evaluate competent CAM practioners and have a sense of how to interact with them; and Present information on the practical integration of useful CAM therapies into the treatment of pain patients with and without cancer.