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Painful Spin The Medical Diseases Often Ignored
This presentation highlights often-overlooked medical and metabolic causes of spine disease, emphasizing their importance for comprehensive pain management. Conditions such as myelopathy (cervical, thoracic, cauda equina), metabolic disorders (osteoporosis, vitamin D deficiency, Paget’s disease), autoimmune diseases (ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis), and neoplasms (benign tumors, metastatic lesions) are reviewed. The talk also addresses infectious etiologies like osteomyelitis and epidural abscesses, as well as traumatic spinal cord syndromes. Key takeaways include early recognition of red flags (gait changes, reflex abnormalities, neurological deficits), prompt imaging, and multidisciplinary care. The goal: integrate awareness of these “ignored” conditions into routine evaluation to improve patient outcomes.
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n this passionate keynote, Dr. Douglas Beall challenges the idea of a “gap” in pain care between Latin America and the rest of the world, proposing instead that unique systemic barriers can be overcome through innovation, industry collaboration, and personal relationships. He highlights the high prevalence of back pain in Latin America, the need for better training programs, and the critical role of private fellowships. Citing the success of basivertebral nerve ablation over spine fusion, he urges investment in early-phase research and device accessibility. His message: leverage local talent, break silos, and build bridges across borders to advance pain care globally.
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Pain Medicine in Latin America Bridging the Gap
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Percutaneous Lumbar Fusion
This presentation covers percutaneous lumbar facet fusion as an emerging treatment for patients with axial low back pain unresponsive to conservative therapies, radiofrequency ablation, or surgical neurotomy. Dr. Didier Demesmin explains the challenges in diagnosing facet joint pain and reviews diagnostic tools like medial branch blocks. After outlining standard denervation techniques, he introduces minimally invasive facet fusion using intra-articular screws. This technique stabilizes micro-movement at the facet joint, reduces pain, preserves future surgical options, and allows rapid recovery. The screw design enhances osteointegration, and patients typically return to activity within weeks—offering a viable alternative to traditional lumbar fusion.
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Dr. Brian Durkin: Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
In this engaging presentation, Dr. Brian Durkin shares his personal and clinical experience with basivertebral nerve (BVN) ablation for treating vertebrogenic low back pain. With over 360 cases performed—including on himself—he explains the anatomy, mechanisms, and clinical signs of vertebrogenic pain, emphasizing Modic changes as a biomarker. He reviews published evidence, procedural techniques, lesion strategies, and long-term data showing sustained patient outcomes. BVN ablation is positioned as a cost-effective, durable alternative to fusion surgery. He encourages innovation in regions lacking access to branded tools and calls it a future standard of care in global back pain management.
Hybrid Lead Placement For Chronic Neuropathic Pain
This groundbreaking talk introduces the concept of the "Pain Trinity"—inflammation, disruption, and junctional adhesions—as key pain generators in regenerative pain medicine. While inflammation and disruption are well understood and treated with biologics, junctional adhesions are often overlooked. The speaker defines these adhesions as abnormal connections between tissues (e.g., tendon-nerve, tendon-capsule) that limit movement and cause pain. Using ultrasound-based diagnostics (selective limitation, comparative imaging, dynamic testing), and precision hydrorelease with HA + dextrose, clinicians can target these adhesions. He presents compelling clinical examples and proposes a future of perineural hydrodissection and anti-scar biologics for enhanced outcomes in chronic pain patients.
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This presentation highlights often-overlooked medical and metabolic causes of spine disease, emphasizing their importance for comprehensive pain management. Conditions such as myelopathy (cervical, thoracic, cauda equina), metabolic disorders (osteoporosis, vitamin D deficiency, Paget’s disease), autoimmune diseases (ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis), and neoplasms (benign tumors, metastatic lesions) are reviewed. The talk also addresses infectious etiologies like osteomyelitis and epidural abscesses, as well as traumatic spinal cord syndromes. Key takeaways include early recognition of red flags (gait changes, reflex abnormalities, neurological deficits), prompt imaging, and multidisciplinary care. The goal: integrate awareness of these “ignored” conditions into routine evaluation to improve patient outcomes.
Painful Spin The Medical Diseases Often Ignored
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Pain Medicine in Latin America Bridging the Gap
n this passionate keynote, Dr. Douglas Beall challenges the idea of a “gap” in pain care between Latin America and the rest of the world, proposing instead that unique systemic barriers can be overcome through innovation, industry collaboration, and personal relationships. He highlights the high prevalence of back pain in Latin America, the need for better training programs, and the critical role of private fellowships. Citing the success of basivertebral nerve ablation over spine fusion, he urges investment in early-phase research and device accessibility. His message: leverage local talent, break silos, and build bridges across borders to advance pain care globally.
Watch Now
This presentation covers percutaneous lumbar facet fusion as an emerging treatment for patients with axial low back pain unresponsive to conservative therapies, radiofrequency ablation, or surgical neurotomy. Dr. Didier Demesmin explains the challenges in diagnosing facet joint pain and reviews diagnostic tools like medial branch blocks. After outlining standard denervation techniques, he introduces minimally invasive facet fusion using intra-articular screws. This technique stabilizes micro-movement at the facet joint, reduces pain, preserves future surgical options, and allows rapid recovery. The screw design enhances osteointegration, and patients typically return to activity within weeks—offering a viable alternative to traditional lumbar fusion.
Percutaneous Lumbar Fusion
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In this engaging presentation, Dr. Brian Durkin shares his personal and clinical experience with basivertebral nerve (BVN) ablation for treating vertebrogenic low back pain. With over 360 cases performed—including on himself—he explains the anatomy, mechanisms, and clinical signs of vertebrogenic pain, emphasizing Modic changes as a biomarker. He reviews published evidence, procedural techniques, lesion strategies, and long-term data showing sustained patient outcomes. BVN ablation is positioned as a cost-effective, durable alternative to fusion surgery. He encourages innovation in regions lacking access to branded tools and calls it a future standard of care in global back pain management.
Dr. Brian Durkin: Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
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This groundbreaking talk introduces the concept of the "Pain Trinity"—inflammation, disruption, and junctional adhesions—as key pain generators in regenerative pain medicine. While inflammation and disruption are well understood and treated with biologics, junctional adhesions are often overlooked. The speaker defines these adhesions as abnormal connections between tissues (e.g., tendon-nerve, tendon-capsule) that limit movement and cause pain. Using ultrasound-based diagnostics (selective limitation, comparative imaging, dynamic testing), and precision hydrorelease with HA + dextrose, clinicians can target these adhesions. He presents compelling clinical examples and proposes a future of perineural hydrodissection and anti-scar biologics for enhanced outcomes in chronic pain patients.
Hybrid Lead Placement For Chronic Neuropathic Pain
Dr. Tibor Racz discusses an effective and safe technique for sphenopalatine ganglion blockade. This is used to treat intractable facial pain and headaches.
Published on September 16, 2020
Dr. Tibor Racz explains, in detail, the technique he uses for treating trigeminal neuralgia for his patients. This neuralgia usually presents as headaches, facial pain, and pain radiating across the...
