NFA to Participate in Annual Pain Conference for Healthcare Professionals

ANAHEIM, Calif. (July 27, 2009)—Hundreds of healthcare professionals who treat pain patients will attend PAINWeek 2009 September 9-12 in Las Vegas, Nev. One of the best-attended annual pain conferences in the country, the event provides management strategies for clinicians and professionals who treat pain, including physicians, nursing professionals, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, psychologists, podiatrists, hypnotherapists, acupuncturists and others.

 
The National Fibromyalgia Association will have an exhibit booth at the four-day event and will provide information about and resources for fibromyalgia in order to help healthcare providers better diagnose and treat fibromyalgia. In addition, renowned FM researcher Patrick Wood, MD, chief medical advisor for the NFA, and Kim Dupree Jones, FNP, PhD,  who heads the fibromyalgia research program at Oregon Health and Science University, will present the NFA’s Physician Assistance, Information & Needs (P.A.I.N.) Kit during their two-hour presentation on fibromyalgia.

 
The kit is divided into two parts—resources for healthcare providers (HCPs) and information for patients. The PAIN Kit’s HCP resource section consists of informational tools, including a quick consult guide, medications guide, Manual Tender Points Survey guide and DVD, education resources and FM research abstracts. Patient information includes education resources, including the Top 10 Things FM Patients Need to Know booklet, an access to healthcare poster, NFA informational brochures and a copy of Fibromyalgia AWARE magazine.

 
“PAINWeek 2009 is the perfect venue to share this educational resource with healthcare providers,” says NFA Executive Director Rae Marie Gleason. “It will be the first time the NFA’s PAIN Kit is featured in a continuing medical education event.”

 
The national conference will offer satellite symposia, special-interest sessions, and scientific assemblies. In addition to the NFA, the following organizations are either affiliated  with or will also be participating in the event: American Headache Society, the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine, the American Society of Pain Educators, the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association, the Interstitial Cystitis Association, the National Stroke Association, the Nevada Psychiatric Association, the National Vulvodynia Association, the Pain Society of Oregon, the Rheumatology Nurses Society, the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association and the Western Pain Society.

 
For more information on PAINWeek 2009, visit http://www.painweek.org/.