| Room 206 (Washington DC Convention Center) | |||
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Interventions for Chronic Pain: Efficacy, Mechanism of Action, and Integration into Multidisciplinary Pain Management Practice | |||
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, therapies, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine. This symposium will present three diverse CAM modalities: acupuncture, spinal manipulative therapies, and cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES); and present a brief description, efficacy data and the respective mechanisms of action, and discuss how each can be integrated into a multi-disciplinary pain management program. Each presenter will also discuss his/her own research on applying the specific modality in question in pain management practices. Dr Tan will provide an introduction and overview, followed by Dr. Farrar, Dr. Fritz, and Dr. Tan who will present data on the efficacy and mechanisms of action on acupuncture, spinal manipulative therapies, and CES, respectively. Dr Tan will conclude by facilitating a group discussion on integrating CAM modalities into clinical practice. | |||
| Moderator: | Gabriel Tan, PhD, ABPP | ||
| Presenters: | John Farrar, MD, PhD Julie Fritz, PhD, PT, ATC | ||
| Using cranial electrotherapy stimulation to treat pain associated with spinal cord injury Gabriel Tan, PhD, ABPP | |||
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Interventions for Chronic Pain: Efficacy, Mechanism of Action, and Integration into Multidisciplinary Pain Management Practice-1 John T. Farrar, MD, PhD | |||
| Efficacy, Mechanisms of Action and Integration into Practice Julie Fritz, PhD, PT, ATC | |||
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