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Our members enjoy quality pain management education through our annual regional and district meetings.
SPS works through our districts and at a regional level to advocate for pain management policy to enhance your patient care.
Our members receive our quarterly newsletter plus additional posts through our blog to stay informed on the practice of management.
Thinking about our coming Annual Meeting, I’m reminded of the complexity of the challenges we face. Along with the attention the opioid crisis is receiving, those of us working daily with patients living with pain know that for many of them there is a simultaneous pain crisis. As pain professionals we have a responsibility to help to “clean up” what many consider to be “the mess” that resulted from the opioid crisis and now the consequential pain crisis.
Read MoreIn this third of a series of writings about compassion and pain management, this article focuses on self-compassion. The premise is that it is essential for health care providers to have compassion for self as the foundation to empathically and compassionately care for patients, while promoting compassionate satisfaction and preventing compassion fatigue.Self-compassion is connecting care and support for self during times of personal suffering.
Read MoreMigraine is a relatively common illness, affecting 12% of the population. Chronic migraine (CM) is a frequently encountered subset of migraine, and presents certain difficulties in treatment. Those with CM have at least 15 headache days per month, with at least 8 days being migrainous in nature. Many do not do well with the usual preventive approaches, and suffer from refractory chronic migraine (RCM).
Read MoreOur corporate members listed below help to further the Society's mission. We are grateful for their participation.
