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Agenda

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Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Optional Workshops

Saturday, February 15, 2025

7:00 am
Registration/Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibits
Informal Discussion with Faculty
7:50 am
Welcome and Introduction
Richard W. Rosenquist, MD

The Fundamentals

8:00 am
Percutaneous Cervical Spine Procedures: Guidelines, Technical Aspects, and Safety
8:30 am
Guidelines for Use of Corticosteroids for Adult Chronic Pain Interventions
9:00 am
Persistent Pain After Joint Replacement?
9:30 am
Infection Control in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
10:00 am
Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibits
10:30 am
Cervical Spine Surgery in 2025 – Indications, Outcomes and Future Directions
11:00 am
Artificial Intelligence and Pain Treatment
11:30 am
Closed Loop Spinal Cord Stimulation: Changing Outcomes Over Time
12:00 pm
Panel Discussion/Question and Answer Period
Session Faculty
12:30 pm
Adjourn
6:30 - 8:30 pm

Reception

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Sunday, February 16, 2025

7:30 am
Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibits
Informal Discussion with Faculty

Regulatory, Billing, and Ethical Challenges in Pain Practice
8:00 am
Private Equity and Pain Practice: Challenges, Opportunities, and Threats
8:30 am
Optimizing Documentation to Ease Preauthorization
9:00 am
Advocacy in Pain Medicine: At the Table or on the Menu
9:30 am
Unethical Behavior as Encountered by the Medical Board
10:00 am
Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibits

Emerging Pharmacological and Interventional Treatments
10:30 am
Interspinous Spacers
10:45 am
Sacroiliac Joint Fusion
11:00 am
Osteocool
11:15 am
Intradiscal Treatments
11:30 am
Nav 1.8 Inhibitors
11:45 am
Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
12:00 pm
Panel Discussion/Question and Answer Period
Session Faculty
12:30 pm
Adjourn
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Problem-based Learning Discussions

  1. Painful Peripheral Neuropathy
  2. SCS – How to Proceed when Complications Occur
  3. Engaging the Patient in Healthy Behaviors

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Monday, February 17, 2025
7:30 am
Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibits
Informal Discussion with Faculty

Neuromodulation: Effective Utilization of Targets, Techniques, and Devices
8:00 am
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation or Static Magnetic Therapy for PDN
8:15 am
Cranial Nerve Stimulation
8:30 am
Occipital Nerve Stimulation
8:45 am
High Frequency Stimulation
9:00 am
DRG
9:15 am
Closed Loop Stimuation
9:30 am
PNS
9:45 am
Intrathecal Drug Delivery
10:00 am
Reactiv8
10:15 am
Treatment of Chronic Postamputation Pain with Bioelectric Nerve Block
10:30 am
Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibits

Neuromodulation – Changing Paradigms and Devices: How Do I Choose the Best One for My Patient?

11:00 am
Matching the Diagnosis and the Technique/Device for the Best Patient Outcome – A Case Discussion with the Experts
12:00 pm
Panel Discussion/Question and Answer Period
Session Faculty
12:30 pm
Adjourn
2:00 - 4:00 pm
PA/APRN Session
2:00 pm
Pump and Pocket Infections – Evaluation and Treatment
2:30 pm
Difficult Patient Interactions
3:00 pm
Evaluating the Patient with Sacroiliac Joint Pain
3:30 pm
Novel Treatments for Neuropathic Pain: Topical Capsaicin
4:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Problem-based Learning Discussions

  1. Opioid Prescribing and Patient Complaints: A View from the Board of Medicine
  2. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
  3. Spinal Stenosis: Contemporary Treatment Options

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
7:30 am
Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibits
Informal Discussion with Faculty

PRP and Stem Cells – Evidence, Payment, and Regulatory Issues

8:00 am
PRP
8:30 am
Stem Cells
9:00 am
Regulatory Issues Related to PRP and Stem Cells
9:30 am
Refreshment Break/Visit Exhibits

Persistent Spinal Pain Syndromes
10:00 am
Discogenic and Vertebrogenic
10:30 am
Pseudoarthrosis
11:00 am
Sagittal Imbalance
11:30 am
Instability and Fusion
12:00 pm
Panel Discussion/Question and Answer Period
Session Faculty
12:30 pm
Adjourn
2:00 - 4:00 pm
PA/APRN Session
2:00 pm
Optimizing Interventional Therapy Referrals
2:30 pm
Low Dose Naltrexone
3:00 pm
Optimum and Appropriate Use of Urine Drug Screening in Clinical Practice
3:30 pm
Setting Patient Expectations for Interventional Procedures
4:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 - 7:00 pm

Problem-based Learning Discussions

  1. Marijuana and Opioid Prescribing: Recommendations for Clinical Practice
  2. Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome – Evaluation and Treatment Options
  3. Post-Amputation Pain

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

7:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Informal Discussion with Faculty

Pain Control in Special Populations

8:00 am
Pain in Pregnancy
8:30 am
Left Ventricular Assist Devices
9:00 am
Pediatric and Adolescent Pain
9:30 am
Refreshment Break

Opioids and Marijuana
10:00 am
Substance Use Disorders and Chronic Pain Management
10:30 am
Acute Pain Management in the Chronic Marijuana User
11:00 am
Marijuana: Fantasies and Realities
11:30 am
Opioids and CDC Guidelines
12:00 pm
Panel Discussion/Question and Answer Period
Session Faculty
12:30 pm
Adjourn

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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Optional Ultrasound Guided Workshop for Physicians
Live Model
2:00 – 5:00 pm | Fee: $500

Only available for physician symposium registrants. Space is limited, so early online registration is recommended. Attendees will rotate to each station.

How to Improve Your Ultrasound Technique, Anatomy of Truncal, Lower Extremity and Headache Blocks, with four Hands-on Stations:


Station 1 Trunk Blocks (TAP, Iliohypogastric, Ilioinguinal, Genitofemoral, Intercostal)
Station 2 Lower Extremity Nerve Blocks (Femoral, Obturator, LFCN and Adductor/Saphenous, Distal Tibial and Distal Peroneal Branches)
Station 3 Lower Extremity Joint Injections (Hip and Knee)
Station 4 Cervical Blocks (Stellate Ganglion and Brachial Plexus)

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Optional Ultrasound Guided Workshop for Physicians
Live Model and Cadaver
8:30 am – 12:00 pm | Fee: $800


Only available for physician symposium registrants. Space is limited, so early online registration is recommended.


Bus transportation departs at 7:15 am. Attendees will rotate to each station.

In addition to lectures and scanning on live models, this ultrasound workshop will include a combined session in the cadaver lab. This workshop will provide learners with the opportunity to have hands on experience scanning dynamic anatomy in live models and performing ultrasound guided blocks in cadavers. Topics will include anatomy of the Neck, Upper Extremity, Shoulder Joint, Pudendal Nerve, Caudal, Piriformis, and SI joint. There will be three Hands-on Cadaver Stations to cover blocks in the neck, upper extremities, and gluteal region.

Station 1 Stellate Ganglion Block, Cervical Nerve Root, Brachial Plexus Block
Station 2 Upper Extremity Peripheral Nerves/ Elbow Injection, Median Nerve at Carpal Tunnel Shoulder Joint, and Suprascapular Nerve Block
Station 3 Pudendal Nerve Block, Caudal, Piriformis, SI Joint Injections

Optional Cadaver Workshops for Physicians
1:30 – 5:30 pm | Fee: $800 per Workshop

Only available for physician symposium registrants. Space is limited, so early online registration is recommended.

Bus transportation departs at 12:30 pm, and a boxed lunch is included. Attendees will rotate to each station.

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Station 1 Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
Station 2 Cervical Facet Medial Branch Blocks and RFA
Station 3 Genicular and Hip RFA

Monday, February 17, 2025

Station 1 Dorsal Column SCS Lead Placement
Station 2 Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty for Compression Fractures
Station 3 Lumbar Facet Medial Branch RFA and Facet Joint Injection

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Station 1 Intradiscal Procedures (Discography/Injections)
Station 2 Shoulder RFA
Station 3 Basivertebral Nerve Ablation

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