The Chronic Pain Patient: Patient Assessment and Treatment to Maximize Outcome and Mitigate Risk


Thursday, April 27, 2017
The Brattleboro Retreat
Brattleboro, Vermont

AGENDA
 
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM  
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM I.  An Overview of the Epidemiology and Costs of Chronic Pain
                             A.  The Epidemic of Opioid and Other                                                                   Controlled Substances
                             B.  Disability, Work and Pain
                             C.  Psychiatric Comorbidities and Pain
   
10:00 AM -10:15 AM Break & Refreshments
 
10:15 AM - 11:30  AM  II.  Assessing the Pain with Chronic Pain
                             A. A Model for Opioid Risk Stratification
                             B. Operant Factors Maintaining. Somatization,                                              Disability and Medication use
                             C. Interprofessional Collaboration versus Faux
   
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Break and Refreshments
   
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM     III.        Evidence Based Treatment Paradigms
                              A.  Cost-Effective Operant/Functional Restoration
                              B.   CBT, ACT, and Mindfulness, Current Evidence                                                            and Failings
                              C.   Challenges with Tapering Chronic Opioids
   
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch (in the Retreat cafeteria and included with your registration)
   
1:45 PM - 3:45 PM   IV.     Three Complex Clinical Cases:
                              Chronic Migraine, Substance Use and PTSD
                              Chronic Low Back Pain, Disability, and Depression
                              Fibromyalgia, Somatiization, and Latrogenesis                                                                 
   
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM  Questions and Answers