Symposium

Limb Care

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

International

Mechanistic approach to post-limb loss pain – standard of care and advanced techniques

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

2:15 PM – 3:30 PM

Presenter(s)

Areerat Suputtitada, Professor

Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine
Chair of Neurorehabilitation Research Unit, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand

Slides
Prateek Grover, MD, PhD, MHA, FAAPMR

Assistant Professor
Washington University
Chesterfield, Missouri, United States

Slides
Michael Hudock, DO

Resident Physician
Washington University / BJC
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Kim LeBard-Rankila, PhD

Associate Chair / Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin Superior
Superior, Wisconsin, United States

Slides

Post-limb loss pain management is a major focus of limb loss care. Differentiating the types of pain and understanding current and advances techniques of managing this pain is vital for rehabilitation professionals. The aim of this symposium is to present a mechanistic overview of the clinical approach to post-limb loss pain management with a focus on standard of care as well as advanced and emerging techniques. The symposium starts with outlining a mechanistic approach to limb loss pain, with a focus on types of pain, underlying mechanisms, and related standard of care non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic clinical management. Brain reorganization principles that underlie advanced and emerging pain management techniques are described, followed by an overview of advanced and emerging pain management techniques including electroacupuncture, botulinum toxin injections, neuromodulation, Guided Motor Imagery, virtual reality, brain-computer interfaces and holistic integrated medicine.

Learning Objectives:

List types and mechanisms of limb pain following limb loss
Review standard-of-care clinical management for the different types of pain
Outline advanced and emerging pain management techniques
List types of holistic integrative medicine techniques used to address pain.