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MOPI Board Members Attend American Pain Foundation 2010 Advocacy Summit

Board members Ann Corley and Jo Hawkins joined other pain advocates and alliance partners in Minneapolis for the American Pain Foundation's 5th Annual Advocacy Summit, April 15 - 18. The Summit is an annual event that brings together state leaders, pain advocates, national alliances and state-based collaborators to network, discuss current issues, and create plans for collaboration during Pain Awareness Month and beyond.

May is National Arthritis Awareness Month

May is Arthritis Awareness Month, an observance intended to focus on the large and growing problem of arthritis in the United States.  Arthritis affected 46 million (one in five) U.S. adults including 1.4 million Missourians in 2005 and is projected to affect 67 million U.S. adults and 1.72 million Missourians by 2030.  Arthritis remains the most common cause of disability in the United States. Visit www.moarthritis.org to learn more about how Missouri’s Regional Arthritis Centers can help you learn how to manage arthritis so it doesn't manage your physical activity and self-management programs and locate a class near you.  You can also sign up to receive arthritis updates delivered to your email in-box.

Save the Date

  • October 21-23, 2010 -21st Annual Meeting of the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives: "A Decade of Change"

    InterContinental Buckhead, Atlanta, GA

  • November 8 - 9, 2010 - Midwest Conference on Palliative and End of Life Care, Hyatt Regency Riverfront, St. Louis, MO (There will be a full palliative care/pain management track offered.)

Learning Opportunities

For Health Care Professionals:

  • Addressing the Barriers of Effective Pain Management and Issues of Opioid Abuse in the Acute and Chronic Setting - The France Foundation, a continuing medical education company, is offering support for health care organizations to host a grand rounds educational activity on pain management. The Foundation is prepared to assist with recruitment and training of a expert faculty presenter, speaker honorarium, organization and support of logistics, and more. The offer is open through June 2010. To learn more or click here or contact the France Foundation directly .
  • Making the Invisible Visible: A Chronic Pain Manual for Health Care Providers - A 250-page manual including up-to-date information on chronic pain presented in a useful format that includes coping skills and strategies in handout form for clients and clinicians. For more information or to order

For those in pain:

  • Chronic Disease Self-Management Program- This program is taught at various locations across the state by an accredited instructor from the Regional Arthritis Center (RAC). To learn more about the RACs or find a workshop in your area, click here. If you are interested in training to become a workshop facilitator, click here.

  • Beyond Chronic Pain: A Guidebook to soothe the mind, body and spirit - In this book pain coach Rebecca Rengo shares techniques and success stories and prompts you to write out your own action plan to help you move Beyond Chronic Pain. For more information or to order

MOPI Meeting Schedule for 2010

  • Thursday, May 27 - Board meeting, 12:30 - 3 pm, at the offices of Primaris (Columbia, MO)

  • Thursday, August 5 - Board conference call at 12 pm

  • Monday, November 8 - General members meeting to be held in conjunction with the Midwest Conference on End of LIfe Care scheduled for November 8 -9 at the Hyatt Regency Riverfront. Save the date - more details will be forthcoming.

News on the Pain Policy Front

  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends removing all combination opioid medications with acetaminophen from the market and limiting the dosage of acetaminophen in over-the-counter medications. While the FDA has not yet acted on the recommendation of the panel, it often follows their lead, which has be prompted by concerns that patients taking medicines that contain acetaminophen are largely ignorant of the safe dosages and unaware that an overdose can cause severe liver damage. (link to Associated Press coverage of announcement) (Note: The American Pain Foundation has put together Question and Answer Sheet to explain how these medications could increase the risk of liver damage and what options are available if you are taking any of these products.)
  • Missouri Pain Initiative endorses recommendations made to the FDA to employ a balanced and rational approach in creating their Proposed Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for opioid therapy. Recognizing that abuse and misuse of opioid medicines is a serious public safety concern with devastating consequences, we do not endorse restrictive, punitive systems such as patient “registries” which further stigmatize people with pain. Any solution must not cause harm to one substantially larger group of Americans in order to attempt to protect another group from harm. FDA announcement on REMS The Pain Care Forum's REMS Consensus Recommendations

On-line Pain Directory – Find Help Here

Need help finding someone who can assess and treat your pain? The Missouri Pain Initiative has launched an on-line directory containing a list of pain professionals who currently provide pain management services to Missourians. You can search the directory by pain professional specialty, type of pain condition, pain professional name, or geographic area. To access the directory click here. NOTE: This is a voluntary listing and not all inclusive. It is our hope that as more pain professionals become aware of the opportunity to be listing in the directory, more will add their information.

Pain Professionals - Get Listed In Our On-Line Pain Directory

The Missouri Pain Initiative is continuing to accept and welcome listings in our on-line directory of pain professionals who currently provide pain management services to Missourians. Click here to complete a directory listing. You also will be required to download, sign and return a disclaimer before your listing will be released to the directory.

Free Pain Resource - Managing Pain Begins with YouManaging Pain Begins with You: Brochure Cover

Managing Pain Begins with You is an easy to read and understand pain brochure for pain sufferers and health care providers and their practice settings. Click here to view the brochure and get ordering information. This brochure is also available in a Spanish version.

 

 

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Recent News

American Pain Foundation Launches Fibromyalgia Awareness Pilot Project in Missouri
To raise awareness about fibromyalgia (FM), an often misdiagnosed, musculoskeletal pain condition that affects up to six million Americans, the American Pain Foundation (APF) is piloting a Is Fibro the Cause? awareness project in Missouri. They are working with community and statebased alliance groups and fibro advocates to disseminate our new Is Fibro the Cause? toolkit. Not only does this toolkit include helpful tips and resources on how to recognize fibromyalgia’s signs and symptoms, but also provides a worksheet to help track symptoms and facilitate communication with your health care provider.
Find out how to get a free toolkit.



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