This conference is uniquely designed to meet the needs of an interdisciplinary health care community. UVM Comprehensive Pain Program was created in partnership with BC/BS of Vermont and is an excellent example of a when a team is both integrative and interprofessional when caring for people with chronic pain.
AACIPM is promoting the dissemination of this conference and encourages all stakeholders to share this high-quality resource with your networks.
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This outstanding agenda includes:
- Keynote: How Healing Works: Implications for Providers, Wayne Jonas, MD, Executive Director, Samueli Integrative Health Programs
- Plenary Sessions
- Lessons Learned from the UVM Medical Center Comprehensive Pain Program
- Reconnecting the Brain with the Rest of the Body in Pain Research, Helene Langevin, MD, Director NCCIH
- National Landscape in Comprehensive Pain Management, Christine Goertz, DC, PhD, Amy Goldstein, MSW, Samantha Simmons, MPH
- Breakout Sessions
- Trauma and Pain
- Matching the Type of Bodywork to a Client’s Pain or Trauma, Janet Kahn, PhD, LMT
- Chronic Pain and Post Traumatic Stress: Clinical Neurology and the Need for Co-Treatment with Manual Medicine, Sarah Paquette, DC
- Somatic Manifestations of Trauma in Rehabilitation, Marcus Kurek, PT, MA, SEP
- Treating Chronic Pain with EMDR, Naya Pyskacek, LICSW, LADC
- Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- An Overview of Herbal Medicine in Pain Management, Katherine Elmer, Herbalist
- Opioid Tapering Context and Considerations, Jon Porter, MD
- Cannabis – The Literature and Lessons Learned in the Field, Karen Lounsbury, PhD
- Sleep Medications, Benefits, and Drawbacks, Clayton English, PharmD
- Pain Conditions
- Integrative Approaches for Headaches, Katherine Wayman, MD, Allyson Bazarsky, MD
- Fibromyalgia: Opportunities for Healing, Andrea Fossati, MD
- Intestinal Hyperpermeability, Inflammation, and Pain, Michael Stadtmauer, ND, LAc
- Empowering Our EDS and Chronic Pain Patients, Lesli Bell, PT, DPT, CLT-LANA, Jennifer Simpson, PT, OCS
- Patient Engagement
- Pain Neuroscience: Understanding and Teaching People About Pain, Parminder Padgett, PT, DPT, NCS
- Little Bites: Talking to Your Patients about Nutrition and Pain, Emily Clairmont, RD
- At the End of the Yellow Brick Road: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Align with Patients Suffering with Chronic Pain, Heather Finley, PhD
- The Importance of Diet and Lifestyle in Treating Pain: A Chinese Medicine Approach, Brendan Kelly, LAc, MAc, Herbalist, NCCAOM
- Trauma and Pain
Spotlight: Kate Nicholson and the National Pain Advocacy Center
An interview with Kate Nicholson, President & Founder, NPAC
What is the National Pain Advocacy Center?
The National Pain Advocacy Center (NPAC) is new nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the health and human rights of people with pain. It is an alliance of clinicians, scientists, health policy and human rights experts, and people with lived experience of pain or addiction. You can read more about us at nationalpain.org.
We are a policy-focused advocacy group. We envision a world in which pain is treated equitably and effectively, so that all people living with pain have the opportunity to lead full and productive lives.
In addition to our governing board, NPAC has two large councils: (1) a Science and Policy Advisory Council made up of professionals with a wide range of backgrounds, and (2) a Community Leadership Council made of people with lived experience. People with lived experience are at the center of everything we do and in every level of our organization.
NCCIH Strategic Plan: Public Comment
Two letters were sent on behalf of AACIPM during NCCIH’s request for comments on their 5-year plan for FY2021-2025. The last comment period ended March 12. We are delighted to see the change to “whole health” language and the intentional focus to integrate conventional and integrative medicine. We also appreciate the more intentional engagement with additional multi-sector stakeholders as we have advocated to make more important connections.
See this letter from AACIPM sent earlier this month.
And AACIPM submitted this letter in June 2020.
How Pain Education Helped Me Go from My Wheelchair to Win a Medal in Less than a Year
In my November 2020 spotlight, “Patient Resources: Not Just for “Newbies,” I shared a bit of my 18+ year journey with chronic pain and my recent, miraculous improvement–along with my goal to walk a 5K.
As AACIPM’s web developer, I have had the opportunity to learn about–and focus on–comprehensive integrative pain management (CIPM) in a way that has made a huge impact on my life.
So much of our work is focused on the big picture, but we can never lose sight of the people we are trying to help–people like me.
ICYMI: AACIPM Behavioral Health Symposium Highlighted by NASW
In case you missed it, The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) included a summary from our fall symposium on behavioral health and pain under Association News, Behavioral Health Care Needed in Plan to Treat Chronic Pain, which is part of the NASW’s Social Work Advocates Feb/March issue.
The agenda, slides and recordings can be found here and a summary can be found at Integrating Behavioral Health Care into Pain Management Treatment Plans Improves Patient Outcomes.
Announcement
Whole Health Institute to Build a New Medical School
Whole Health School of Medicine and Health Sciences will be a new, independent, degree-granting, not for profit, medical school in Northwest Arkansas that seeks to reimagine healthcare education in America by creating a pipeline of professionals trained in conventional medicine and Whole Health – a new approach to health that equips and empowers individuals to optimize their own mental, physical, and spiritual health and well-being in collaboration with an integrated team of healthcare providers. The Whole Health School of Medicine and Health Sciences is a standalone sister organization of Whole Health Institute.
Relevant Conferences
The Society for Acupuncture Research 2021 International Research Conference – June 14-16, 2021
SAR’s 2021 conference is organized around the theme of Roles and Relevance of Traditional East Asian Medicine as it relates to our current world environment. To our knowledge, this conference will be the first acupuncture and TEAM research forum focused on the current global viral pandemic. These unprecedented and complex times necessitate a diverse audience that can inspire innovative thinking and new approaches to this challenge.
Free Yoga Initiative Began 3/6 + New Long COVID
This e-bulletin was developed with expert input from Body Politic, one of the partners of the just-announced Long COVID Alliance, in order to share an important initiative from one of our partners, International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).
Give Back Yoga University (GBYU) and the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) have joined forces on an innovative initiative to help address the emerging public health issue of Long COVID.
You will find details about this yoga initiative along with important guidance for individuals and providers to understand the latest information and resources available for people with Long COVID and providers who care for them.
Message from the Director
Happy Spring!
I’m really excited about everything in this month’s issue and hope you enjoy the resources. The Vermont program (top feature) is really not to miss and hope you’ll share it with your networks who are looking for quality pain education that is truly interprofessional and integrative.
Also, it’s so fantastic to see two AACIPM Advisory Committee members, Tracy Gaudet, and Kate Nicholson, featured in this issue as they share much needed resources, a new Whole Health Medical School and National Pain Advocacy Center. As we continue to focus on where the common goals are among all our work, we continue to build meaningful momentum and impact to advance whole person pain management.
Onward and Upward!
Amy
Action Item
Call for Papers: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Pain Management
The September 2021 special issue of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Journal is now open for submissions. Deadline: April 16
Relevant Reading
Take a mental break from pain: Mindfulness can help soothe short-term and chronic pain, Harvard
Virtual Reality Startup Raises $29 Million To Help With Chronic Pain, Forbes, March 23
Long Covid: ‘You think you are making progress…then it rears its ugly head again’, The Irish Times, March 21
Two Kinds of Acupuncture Can Relieve Pain in Cancer Survivors, Memorial Sloan Kettering, March 18
People With Chronic Pain Are Claiming A Voice In The Opioids Crisis, Forbes, March 17
Survey: How Should the CDC Opioid Guideline Be Changed?, Pain News Network, March 15
Covid Long-Haulers Face New Battle for Disability Benefits, Pain News Network, March 13
VA’s whole health program for veterans shows drop in opioid use, Stars & Stripes, March 12
Physical Therapy for Migraine Headaches, VeryWell Health, March 11
Interventional Pain Physicians Ponder How to Treat Pain in Post-COVID World, Pain Medicine News, March 11
Alice Walton’s Whole Health Institute will build a new medical school in Bentonville, TB&P, March 4
Save Lives by Safely Managing Chronic Pain, Future of Personal Health, Feb/March
A Chiropractic Approach to Treating Chronic Pain, Future of Personal Health, Feb/March
Why Neuromodulation Is a Powerful Tool for Treating Chronic Pain, Future of Personal Health, Feb/March
Industry Leaders Speak Up on Workplace Injuries, Future of Personal Health, Feb/March
How COVID-19 Has Impacted People Living With Pain, Future of Personal Health, Feb/March
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