The American Academy of Pain Medicine

Pain Medicine Journal

Pain Medicine is the premier source of peer reviewed research and commentary on matters relevant to the multidisciplinary clinical practice of pain medicine. It is the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FPMANZCA), and the International Spine Intervention Society (ISIS).
 
Pain Medicine is among the most highly-referenced pain journals and provided to AAPM members as a benefit of membership eight times each year through AAPM's publishing partner, Blackwell Science, Inc.

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These special sections help broaden Pain Practitioners' breadth of knowledge of Pain Medicine:
    
Spine Section
Ethics Section
Forensic Pain Medicine
Palliative Care Section
Pain & Aging Section

Spine Section

Spinal pain (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar) is the most common and troublesome entity encountered by pain professionals. With treatment and management that range from conservative to invasive measures, the need for research into spinal procedures and education about how they should be practiced is critical.
To further benefit the practice of pain medicine and most importantly, your patients, Pain Medicine’s dedicated SPINE section, lead by section editor Nikolai Bogduk, MD, PhD, DSc, and supported by the International Spine Intervention Society (ISIS), provides authoritative research studies on spinal pain, invasive interventions, and therapeutics while offering best practices and practical information you can apply immediately.

Widely-acclaimed, recently published articles include:
The Incidence of Spontaneous Epidural Abscess in Olmsted County from 1990 Through 2000: A Rare Cause of Spinal Pain
Anne E. Ptaszynski, MD W. Michael Hooten, MD and Marc A. Huntoon, MD
Client-Centered Therapy vs Exercise Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial in Brazil
Luciana A. C. Machado, BSc (Hons) Daniel C. Azevedo, MSc Maria B. Capanema, BSc Tuffi N. Neto, BSc and Daniella M. Cerceau, BSc (Hons)
Pulsed Radiofrequency: Current Clinical and Biological Literature Available
Alex Cahana, MD, DAAPM Jan Van Zundert, MD, PhD, FIPP Lucian Macrea, MD Maarten van Kleef, MD, PhD, FIPP and Menno Sluijter, MD, PhD, FIPP

Ethics Section

As a practitioner who provides care for patients with pain you continually come face-to-face with difficult ethical dilemmas such as the inherent difficulty of "curing" chronic pain, the psychopathology of chronic pain patients, end-of-life issues, the patient-physician relationship, the use of unproven methods, the vulnerability of pain patients, the increasing economic pressures of pain clinics, litigation, the workers' compensation system, and much more.

You may already be quite familiar with clinical ethics, but still uncertain about the precise nature of the field and the scope of its activities. That’s why Pain Medicine publishes a section exclusively devoted to Ethics. Lead by section editor Michel Y. Dubois, MD, this section examines ethical challenges posed by the practice and research of pain and offers new ideas about the future directions of the field.

Widely-acclaimed, recently published articles in the Ethics section of the journal include:
Disparities in Pain: Ethical Issues
Carmen Green, MD Knox H. Todd, MD Allen Lebovits, PhD and Michael Francis, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine: Financial Success and Ethical Practice: An Oxymoron?
Jerome Schofferman, MD
The Treating Physician as Expert Witness: Ethical and Pragmatic Considerations
Ben A. Rich JD, PhD

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Forensic Pain Medicine Section

 Pain and the Law is an important subject for all pain professionals. But while it engages your attention and time, there is disproportionate representation in literature published.
The Forensic Pain Medicine Section, headed by Dr. Scott Fishman, addresses this deficiency in a format that cleverly discusses cases, debates hot topics, and offers insight into legal perspectives of this interesting sub-specialty of pain medicine practice.

The section is designed to serve as a conduit for advancing ideas and discussion in the forensic pain medicine discipline and to help develop this subspecialty within the field. It covers topics that relate to issues of human pain and suffering in the law and how the subspecialty of pain medicine interfaces with the courts, legislature, corrections, and other public policy institutions.

Widely-acclaimed, recently published articles include:
Enough about Barriers and Fear Already—The Pain Community Needs to be Proactive and Take Steps to Stop the "Roulette Wheel"
Jennifer Bolen, JD
Pain, Patients, and Prosecution: Who Is Deceiving Whom?
Stephen J. Ziegler, PhD, JD
The Risk of Action by the Drug Enforcement Administration Against Physicians Prescribing Opioids for Pain
Beth Jung, EdD, MD, MPH and Marcus M. Reidenberg, MD

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Palliative Care Section

Treating the discomfort of the severely ill patient is a multidisciplinary endeavor. The addition of Pain Medicine’s dedicated PALLIATIVE CARE section, edited by Allen W. Burton, MD, signals the Journal's interest in promoting and broadening the growth of Pain Medicine and fostering increased knowledge and interest in Palliative Medicine.
Due to a lack of evidence-based approaches to pain and symptom management in the palliative care arena, the PALLIATIVE CARE section provides you with more and higher-quality research in oncology, pain management, and palliative care.

Widely-acclaimed, recently published articles include:
Placement of an Implantable Drug Delivery System Under the Breast
John M. Compoginis, Steven H. Richeimer MD, Garry S. Brody MD
Chronic Pain in the Cancer Survivor: A New Frontier
Allen W. Burton, MD Gilbert J. Fanciullo, MD, MS Ralph D. Beasley, MD and Michael J. Fisch, MD, MPH
Toward Evidence-Based Prescribing at End of Life: A Comparative Analysis of Sustained-Release Morphine, Oxycodone, and Transdermal Fentanyl, with Pain, Constipation, and Caregiver Interaction Outcomes in Hospice Patients
Douglas J. Weschules, PharmD, BCPS Kevin T. Bain, PharmD, BCPS JoAnne Reifsnyder, PhD, APRN, BC-PCM Jill A. McMath, PharmD David E. Kupperman, PharmD Rollin M. Gallagher, MD, MPH Walter W. Hauck, PhD and Calvin H. Knowlton, RPh, MDiv, PhD

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Pain & Aging Section of Pain Medicine

Treating and managing the pain that older adults routinely experience is becoming ever more pressing. Between 2010 and 2030, it’s estimated that those aged 65 years and above will increase by 75%, according to Population Projections of the United States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin.

To advance the field of pain and aging, Pain Medicine established the unique PAIN & AGING section, edited by Debra Kaye Weiner, MD. This section will help you think critically about this field and help it progress by covering a broad variety of studies and results of clinical investigation, such as:

• timely reviews of topics for which important progress has been made and for which recent thoughtful reviews are not available
• clinical case series that provide unique insights into the assessment and treatment of older adults with pain
• the results of novel educational methods that have the potential to impact patient outcomes

Widely-acclaimed, recently published articles include:

Evaluation of the Iowa Pain Thermometer and Other Selected Pain Intensity Scales in Younger and Older Adult Cohorts Using Controlled Clinical Pain: A Preliminary Study
Keela Herr PhDRNFAAN, Kevin F. Spratt PhD, Linda Garand PhDAPRNBC, Li Li MSNRN
Pain Assessment in Younger and Older Pain Patients: Psychometric Properties and Patient Preference of Five Commonly Used Measures of Pain Intensity
Madelon L. Peters PhD, Jacob Patijn MDPhD, Inge Lamé Msc
Mind–Body Interventions for Chronic Pain in Older Adults: A Structured Review
Natalia E. Morone, MD, MSc and Carol M. Greco, PhD

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