Original Release Date: February 15, 2023 | 1:00 pm ET
Medical and Life Care Consulting hosted a complimentary webinar aimed at helping medico-legal professionals gain a better understanding of invasive pain management interventions and their impact on personal injury cases.
“Invasive analgesic therapies provided an alternative to the medical management of chronic pain. With the growing incidence of chronic pain not only in the United States but worldwide, more therapies had evolved to address the increasing demand for pain relief options. These therapies included spinal injections, nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation, neurostimulation, and intrathecal drug delivery.” – Medical Clinics of North America
Watch the webinar to learn:
Types of chronic pain:
• Nerve pain
• Joint pain
• Discogenic pain
• Myofascial pain
How pain is diagnosed:
• MRI findings
• Physical exam findings
• Response to treatment, i.e.: injections, manual therapy
Noninvasive treatment:
• Physical therapy
• Medications- neuropathic medications, anti-inflammatory, local anesthetic, compounding creams
Interventional procedures:
• Injections- facet, si joint, epidural steroid injections, medial and lateral branch blocks, diagnostic versus therapeutic, IA joint injections, trigger point injections
• Nerve blocks
• Spinal cord stimulators
• Stellate ganglion block
Correlating the patient’s response with the diagnosis
How to allocate long-term treatment for chronic pain into the life care plan_
Medico-legal webinars are a great resource for plaintiff and defense teams looking to better understand injuries and illnesses and how they may impact a case. Topics range from pediatrics and pain to costing and Medicare Set-Aside Allocations and everything in between.