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Clinical Management of Chronic Pain Course
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Clinical Management of Chronic Pain

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Monday 7th November



08:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
   
8:55 CLINIC SESSIONS - WCNN
 
Jibril Osman-Farah
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Surgical Treatment of Pain
Bernhard Frank
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General Pain
Turo Nurmikko
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Neuropathic Pain
Rajiv Chawla
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General Pain
Manohar Sharma
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General Pain
   
12:30 LUNCH
   
IMAGING
CHAIR: Manohar Sharma
   
13:20 An Introduction to Lumbar Imaging
Kumar Das (Liverpool)
   
14:00 Radiographic Anatomy for Spinal Intervention
Sanjeeva Gupta (Bradford)
   

PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PAIN
CHAIR: John Wiles

   
14:45 Setting up and running an Opioid Clinic
Bernhard Frank (Liverpool)
   
15:15 TEA
   
15:45 Pharmacological Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
Chris Wells (Liverpool)
   
FACIAL PAIN
   
16:30 Facial Pain: Diagnosis & Treatment
Turo Nurmikko (Liverpool)
   
17:00 Questions & Close

 


Tuesday 8th November



THREE COMMON PAIN CLINIC PROBLEMS
CHAIR: John Wiles
   
09:00 Myofascial pain: A guide to practical management
Andreas Goebel (Liverpool)
   
09:30 Chronic Neck Pain & Whiplash Injury Pain
Roger Okell (Crewe)
   
10:00 Practical Management of Mechanical Low Back Pain
John Wiles (Liverpool)
   
10:30 COFFEE
   
11:15 CANCER PAIN CASE PRESENTATIONS
Manohar Sharma (Liverpool) and Heino Hugel (Liverpool)
   
12:15 LUNCH
   
13:10
PRESENTATION BY THE WINNER OF THE 2011 PAIN RELIEF FOUNDATION STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION
   
13:25 TENS: Theory and Practice
Mark Johnson (Leeds)
   

NEURO INTERVENTIONS FOR BENIGN PAIN
CHAIR
: Manohar Sharma

Spinal Cord Stimulators & Drug Delivery Systems

   
14:25 Patient Assessment
Mark Draper (Liverpool)
   
14:45 Implantation
Jibril Osman-Farah (Liverpool)
   
15:05 Short and Long Term Management of patients
Christin Bird (Liverpool)
   
15:25 TEA
   
16:00 Neurosurgical treatment of pain.
Paul Eldridge (Liverpool)
   
16:30 Neuroblockade in Pain Medicine
Rajiv Chawla (Liverpool)
   
17:00 Questions and close
   

Wednesday 9th November



09:15 GRAND ROUND
CHAIR: Paul Eldridge - Walton Centre Pain Team
   
12:30 LUNCH
   
14:00 The Sam Lipton Lecture: TBA
   
PAIN CONTROL IN PALLIATIVE CARE
CHAIR: Manohar Sharma
   
15:00 The Role of the Anaesthetic Pain Clinician in the Hospice
Andrew Jones (Liverpool)
   
15:30 TEA
   
16:00 Non-invasive Analgesia for Pain in Palliative Care
Matthew Makin (Wrexham)
   
16:45

Questions & Close

   

Thursday 10th November



09:00 Pain Management Programmes, Patient Selection and Outcome
John Wiles and Eric Ghadiali (Liverpool PMP)
   
10:00 COFFEE
   
10:30 CLINICAL SESSIONS OF CHOICE:
 
 

Pain Management Programmes Assessment I
John Wiles, Chris Barker, Eric Ghadiali, Kerry Mathews
18 persons

 

Physiotherapy Clinic
Sharon Barnett
6 Persons

 

Theatre
Manohar Sharma
6 persons

   
13:00 LUNCH in the CSC
   
14:00 CLINICAL SESSIONS OF CHOICE:
 
 

Pain Management Programmes Assessment II
John Wiles, Chris Barker, Eric Ghadiali, Kerry Mathews
12 persons

 

PMP Treatment Session
The Pain Management Progamme Team
12 persons

 

Theatre
Bernhard Frank
6 persons

   
16:00 TEA
   
16:30-17:00 Goodbye speech by 2 patients and PMP Discussion
   
   
COURSE DINNER (included in the registration fee)
   
19:00 for 19:30 THE RACQUET CLUB
Hargreaves Buildings, 5 Chapel Street, Liverpool L3 9AE
 
 

Friday 11th November



09:30 What is CRPS and How Can We Treat It?
Andreas Goebel (Liverpool)
   
10:30 Setting up and Running a District General Hospital Pain Clinic and PMP
James De Courcy (Cheltenham)
   
12:30 LUNCH & CLOSE
   

 


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