Ajay Manhapra, MD 

Section Chief, Pain Medicine, Hampton VA Medical Center, Hampton, VA
Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Asst. Professor in PM&R and Psychiatry, EVMS, Norfolk, VA
 

In person and via Zoom

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Describe total pain as a rehabilitative framework and explain how Saunders's clinical methods anticipate modern chronic pain science.
• Apply the rehabilitative elements of total pain to the evaluation and treatment of complex chronic pain.
• Distinguish the roles of biographical narrative, transdisciplinary care, and symptom management as a doorway — not a destination — in chronic pain treatment.
• Recognize the parallel between the abandonment of dying patients in the 1950s and the abandonment of patients with "incurable" chronic pain today, and articulate a rehabilitative response.

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The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

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