Sunday Conversations June 2024 - Improving Pain Care with the Mass Pain Initiative

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In this edition of Sunday Conversations, we continued our series on comorbidities with a focus on pain. A panel of three presenters from the Massachusetts Pain Initiative (MassPI) presente on the work their organization does to improve the lives of people suffering from pain through knowledge, education, and policy reform. Cindy Steinberg discussed her role in past and current legislative actions, both locally and nationally. Jackie Orent-Nathan talked about pain neuroscience and about solutions that use neuroplasticity to influence the reorganization of neural networks. Michele Matthews focused on medications and provided the "Ins and Outs of Medications for Pain and Symptom Management".

This program is part of “Sunday Conversations with MassME,” a monthly speaker series with discussion on a wide variety of topics. For more information on this and future Sunday Conversations presentations, please check out https://www.massmecfs.org/sunday-conv...

Chapters
0:00:00 Housekeeping
MassPI presentations
0:02:21 Cindy Steinberg: Local and federal advocacy work
0:14:14 Jackie Nathan: Pain neuroscience
0:33:03 Michele Matthews: Medications for pain management
Questions from the audience
0:58:08 Q&A: More about MassPI
0:59:46 Q&A: ME advocacy advice
1:00:49 Q&A: How many patients improve
1:02:41 Q&A: How to find a pain clinic
1:04:57 Q&A: Gabapentin/Neurontin
1:06:10 Q&A: Low dose naltrexone
1:08:45 Q&A: MCAS-friendly compounded medicines
1:10:46 Conclusion