Cookie Policy Privacy Policy Skip to main content
Category

Pain Management

NewsWebinarsWebinars: Pain Management
January 30, 2020

Pancreatitis Pain: The Latest Treatment & Policy Perspectives on Opioids

Mission: Cure's most recent webinar is now online: Pancreatitis Pain: The Latest Medical & Policy Perspectives on Opioids Watch It Now! On this webinar, Kate Nicholson, J.D., a civil rights attorney, pain patient advocate, and expert on the so-called opioid or overdose crisis, and Dr. Eva Szigethy, a leading UPMC psychiatrist focused on the management of chronic pain and psychotropic medication management in patients, discuss: Barriers to care for patients who use opioids The opioids policy environment and how patients can use recent policy changes to self-advocate Pain treatment options, including opioids Dealing with anxiety and depression Dr. Eva Szigethy is a professor of psychiatry, medicine and pediatrics at…
BlogPatient ResourcesPediatric PancreatitisTopics
November 21, 2019

Managing Chronic Pain in Pancreatitis

Key points: •   Chronic pain from pancreatitis takes a major toll on patients and their loved ones. •   To effectively treat chronic pancreatitis pain, we need to address the symptoms as well as the impact of pain on patients’ lives.  •   One piece of the solution is self-management, which involves education, lifestyle changes, pain coping skills, and emotional and social support. •   Computer and smartphone technologies can be used to teach self-management to patients who lack access to interdisciplinary pain facilities. •   There are self-management apps specifically for pancreatitis pain and clinical trials for children and adults to determine how…
Dr. Asjbørn Mohr Drewes, MD, PhD
BlogPain ManagementPain ManagementPain ManagementPatient ResourcesTopics
September 27, 2018

New Guidelines for Managing the Pain of Chronic Pancreatitis

Dr. Asbjørn Mohr Drewes, MD, PhD, is a widely-recognized expert in gastroenterology and pain, especially in diseases of the pancreas and oesophagus. Acting as both a clinician and researcher, he has authored 507 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reviews, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He is currently the Director of Mech-Sense and Center for Pancreatic Diseases at the Aalborg University Hospital in Aalborg, Denmark. Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a poorly understood disease, to the immense frustration of patients, clinicians, and researchers. There is good news: consensus guidelines on chronic pancreatitis pain have been developed by an international…