Pain medicine basics: Apps, podcasts & online lectures

Manage My Pain is the world’s first and only commercially-available digital chronic pain treatment companion with clinical validation and has one of the largest datasets for reported pain outcomes.

The palliMEDS app from NPS MedicineWise and caring@home is designed to explain the use of eight medicines that have been endorsed for end-of-life care by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine.

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine presents the Regional Anesthesia and Pain Podcast (ASRA RAPP). This podcast discusses current topics in both regional anesthesia and pain medicine, invites authors of significant publications to help explain their work, debates the merits and pitfalls of new technology and therapy, and informs you about important events where you can participate in the ASRA Pain Medicine community.

Headache publishes original articles on all aspects of head and face pain including communications on clinical and basic research, diagnosis and management, epidemiology, genetics, and pathophysiology of primary and secondary headaches, cranial neuralgias, and pains referred to the head and face. Click here to listen to podcasts for health professionals.

The Pain Matters Podcast is presented by the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM). It’s the US’s leading podcast for healthcare providers focused on providing the best care today, tomorrow, and beyond. Home to multiple pain-focused podcasts, it shares the latest innovations and practical applications that directly impact how we care for patients and measure success in multidisciplinary care in every episode.

The goal of this program is to improve patient outcomes through pain management. Topics include risk factors for chronic pain development and cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of chronic pain.

The goal of this program is to improve use of ketamine as a perioperative drug.

The goal of this program is to improve perioperative management of pain in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) using buprenorphine.

The goal of this program is to reduce risk for long-term opioid use among patients undergoing ophthalmic surgery.

The goal of this program is to improve delivery of interventional pain management - including: use of SCS for management of chronic back and joint pain, and micro-dosing as an alternate to intrathecal therapy.

The goal of this program is to improve management of pain with alternatives to opioids, including alternatives to opioids for lumbar punctures, prescribing strategies to reduce misuse of opioids and identifying patients with genetic susceptibility to opioid misuse disorder.

The goal of this program is to improve identify ways anesthesia providers can care for the patient with a history of opioid abuse and addiction.

The goal of this program is to improve management of intraoperative and perioperative anesthesia. It examines reducing incidence of incidence of opioid-induced hyperalgesia; identifying the effects of analgesic agents during neuromonitoring; examines the impacts of post-op pain and its management; and examines the relationship between medicinal cannabis use and post-op opiate consumption.

The goal of this program is to improve pain management. Topics include the science behind pain management and implementing measures to effectively reduce chronic and procedural pain.

The goal of this program is to improve the management of buprenorphine addiction by maximising current care of overdose patients in the emergency department and exploring other treatment options for opioid addiction.

The goal of this program is to improve opioid prescribing practices that comply with updates to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for prescribing opioids, and to provide appropriate follow-up and tapering of therapy for patients taking opioids on a long-term basis.

The goal of this program is to improve management of pain in cooperation with transitional pain clinics. This podcast suggests limiting adverse effects and potential for addiction to opioids through referrals to transitional pain clinics.

This program aims to improve perioperative pain management of patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery.

This program aims to improve the management of pain in patients with obesity through modified interventional pain management. Such management includes nonsurgical treatments for musculoskeletal pain.

This program aims to promote equity between women and men in anesthesiology by recognising the benefits of women in healthcare. This program also looks at implementing strategies that support the progression of women in anesthesiology.