Diploma Program

• Objectives of the courses

• Interventional Analgesia: What is there behind a name?

• Some epidemiological data on chronic pain: magnitude of the problem

• From acute postoperative pain to chronic post-surgical pain

• Neuro-anatomy of pain pathways

• Pathophysiology of nociception

• Neuropathic pain path physiology and advancements in management

• Peripheral neuropathic pain: A boulevard for topical treatments and the end of systemic treatments

• Evaluation of the chronic pain patient

• Techniques and methods of pain measurements

• Placebo & Nocebo effects

• Neuro-anatomy related to interventional analgesia techniques

• Ethics and interventionnal analgesia

• Iatrogenic substance abuse and chronic pain syndromes

• Interventional analgesia for post operative analgesia

• The concept of translational pain: risk and/or preventive factors, treatments

• Interventional pain procedure in ambulatory settings

• Home care for peripheral nerve catheters

• Pain and movement

• Rehabilitation for chronic pain linked to disco vertebral pain

• Rehab for chronic pain related to MSK disorders

• Organisation for a pain centre

• Genetics and epigenetics

• Addiction on prescription: the case for opioids and gabapentinoids

• Interventional analgesia and chronic pain syndromes in children and teenagers

• Spine MRI CT Scan how to read it?

• X-Ray of the spine

• US how it works and what new tools are on your US machine?

• Findings of US in MSK pathologies

• US the revolution for pain procedures

• Lumbar Spine sono anatomy

• Sonoanatomy of the abdominal wall

• Cervical spine sono anatomy

• PRP Injection: Principes indications and contraversies

• Anti convulsivants and anti depressors Indication and use

• Topical analgesia: lidocaïne plaster,and capsaicin patch

• Botulinum Toxin for peripheral neuropathic pain

• Blocks SS and catheters for CRPS1 syndroms

• IV treatments in chronic pain (Ketamine or lidocaine)

• Peripheral percutaneous stimulation for postoperative, trauma and amputation pain

• Epidurale and transforaminal epidural steroid injection

• Articular injections : when and What to inject?

• Neurolysis, Radiofrequency, IDET

• Thermocoagulation? radio-ablation? Cryoablation? Indication and side effects

• Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic stimulation to treat chronic pain (rTMS)

• Hypnosis

• New ways of opioid administration: nasal, buccal, oral PCA

• Ozone therapy in Pain

• Spinal neuro modulation part 1

• Kyphoplasty, intrathecal medication therapy

• Epiduroscopy

• Fascia hydrodissection

• Peripheral motor blocks and spasticity syndromes

• Chronic Pain And Acunpuncture

• Echo-acupuncture and neuropathic pain: Here we are!

• Acupuncture clinical cases

• Intrathecal devices implants

• Basic Intra discal techniques

• Advanced surgical Intra discal techniques

• Depression syndrome and psychiatric aspect of the chronic pain patient How to evaluate and when to refere the patient.

• Post operative peripheral neuro modulation and translational pain

• Advanced regional anesthesia pharmacology/ technology impact on pain pathways and persistent

• Post-surgical pain

• Interventional Analgesia and Chronic pain syndromes in Children and Teenagers

General practices:

• Complex Regional Pain Syndromes (CRPS1 ):

• Pain in amputees: Phantom Pain & stump pain

• Myofascial syndromes 1: Pathophysiology & Multidisciplinary Approach

• Myofascial syndromes 2: Interventions Options

• Trigger point Injection: what to inject ??? (Dry needling, steroids, LA, PRP, Toxin)

• Acute zona pain, post-herpetic neuralgia

• Diabetic neuropathy

• Cancer Pain epidemiology classification and etiology streties for treatment

• Interventional analgesia for cancer pain

• Interventionnal analgesia and palliative care

• HIV pain

• Fibromyalgia Myofascial syndromes

• Nerve entrapment syndromes

Head & neck (spine excluded):

• Migraine

• Face pain ; trigeminal and oro facial

• Cervicalgies

Trunk:

• Post-mastectomy pain

• Chronic Chest Wall pain + Rib Dysfunction

• abdominal wall anatomy and blocks

Pelvis:

• Piriformis syndrome :

• Postpartum Pain

• Pelvic perineal pain in women

• Pelvis pain and blocks

• Pudendal neuralgia

Spine:

• Nerve root injection diagnosis and treatment (Model)

• Cervicalgies

• Cervical Facet Diagnosis and Treatment (Model)

• Atlanto Occipital & Atlanto axial joint blocks

• Cervical spine discogenic pain

• Cervical Spine Steroid epidural or nerve root injection

• Dorsalgies

• Lombalgies - Lumbago ? Facet? SIJ? Discogenic pain?

• Low back pain. How to treat?

  • Medical treatment and how?

  • Surgical treatment

• Failed back surgery syndrome FBSS

• A School for our spine

Limbs:

• Peripheral Nerve blocks limb spasticities

• Tendinopathies Tendinitis & Bursitis

• Entrapment syndromes

• Shoulder

• Elbow

• Wrist and fingers

• Hip

• Knee

• Ankle

• Foot