Pain medicine consultant Dr Joan Hester answers GP Dr Mandy Fry's questions on nerve blocks, trigeminal neuralgia and preventing opioid dependence.
Learning objectives
This module will review key issues in chronic pain, including:
- Identifying patients at risk of developing dependence on opiate-based medication, and minimising the risk
- Prescribing in patients with neuropathic pain
- Managing patients with breast pain, persistent vulval pain, recurrent abdominal pain in children, chronic scrotal pain and spinal compression fractures
- Advising patients on complementary therapies for chronic pain
- Spotting and managing complex regional pain syndrome in primary care
Author
Dr Joan Hester is a consultant in pain medicine at King's College Hospital, London and is a past president of the British Pain Society
Dr Mandy Fry is a GP in Cirencester and senior primary care lecturer at Oxford Brookes University
