Pain Management & Complementary Medicine
Pain Management & Complementary Medicine
The Stanford Division of Pain Medicine is focused on translating groundbreaking research discoveries into effective therapies. Our faculty investigates the emotional and cognitive factors that influence pain, normal pain processing, pain disorders, and treatment options through the use of state-of-the art neuroimaging tools, neuropsychology, pharmacology, and complementary medicine.
Pain Management & Complementary Medicine
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Playing style linked to NBA knee injuries
Basketball players who weave through defense to shoot the basket face a higher risk of tears in the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), but after repair return to the same level of play.
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Electrolyte supplements don’t prevent illness
Researchers found that supplements did not appear to protect endurance athletes from illness caused by electrolyte imbalances. They also found that hot temperatures are a risk factor.
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Microbial loss, ulcerative colitis linked
Bacteria normally inhabiting healthy people’s intestines — and the anti-inflammatory metabolites these bacteria produce — are depleted in ulcerative colitis patients, a Stanford study shows.
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Grants to study pain, opioids awarded
Five researchers were awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health to study opioid misuse and pain treatment.
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Choice-based C-section pain management
The Stanford-led research tested an approach that allowed women to choose the level of pain management they wanted during a cesarean section.
Upcoming Courses
Conferences and Workshops
Online Courses
- An Evidence-Based Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of Migraines in Adults in the Primary Care and General Neurology Setting
- E-Cigarettes: Harmful or Harm-Reducing
- Introduction to Food and Health
- Managing Atrial Fibrillation
- Musculoskeletal Medicine Primer for the non-Orthopedist
- Prescription Drug Misuse and Addiction: Compassionate Care for a Complex Problem
- SafetyQuest: Level One - QI Basics
- SafetyQuest: Level Three - Implementing QI
- SafetyQuest: Level Two - Moving Beyond QI Basics
- SafetyQuest: Level four - Mastering QI
- Screening and Assessing Depression in Primary Care Settings: Clinical and Ethical Considerations
- SonoDoc: Case-Based Learning in Bedside Ultrasound
- To Prescribe or Not To Prescribe? Antibiotics and Outpatient Infections
- Unconscious Bias
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