American Pain Society Conference Sheds Light on Critical Challenges in Pain Management

American Pain Society Conference Sheds Light on Critical Challenges in Pain Management

Inflexxion introduces painACTION, a pain self-management website for people with chronic pain

Newton, MA (Advertiser Talk) 27-Jul-2009 — On May 7-9, the American Pain Society (APS) will hold its 28th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego, California. The meeting brings together pain scientists and health care professionals to discuss the latest findings related to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of acute pain, chronic cancer and non-cancer pain, and recurrent pain. Inflexxion, a company that creates scientifically validated solutions for critical areas of health care, is presenting a poster to introduce painACTION.com, an online resource to help patients self-manage chronic pain.

“The APS conference is especially relevant right now, when we’re starting to see important innovations in pain treatment and management emerging in response to critical challenges, such as the rise of prescription pain medication misuse, abuse, and overdose,” says Kevin Zacharoff, M.D., Director of Medical Affairs at Inflexxion. “The painACTION website is designed to serve as a daily resource for patients with chronic pain conditions, while at the same time providing clinicians with a useful tool for increasing the quality of care – including ensuring that their patients understand how to take prescription pain medications safely.”

The APS conference is especially relevant right now, when we’re starting to see important innovations in pain treatment and management emerging in response to critical challenges, such as the rise of prescription pain medication misuse, abuse, and overdose The painACTION website is designed to serve as a daily resource for patients with chronic pain conditions, while at the same time providing clinicians with a useful tool for increasing the quality of care – including ensuring that their patients understand how to take prescription pain medications safely. We view resources such as painACTION to be a critical piece of the pain self-management puzzle It is important that people in pain build the daily coping skills to complement formal medical treatment, and utilizing the Internet affords consistent and reliable access to such information. Developed with grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), painACTION is a non-promotional website that provides unbiased information on self-managing pain. It leverages innovative technology, including a “smart” recommendation engine that delivers customized content to individuals, based on a user’s pain profile, the information the individual has viewed, and psychosocial assessments.

To complement the guidance that clinicians provide during office visits, painACTION also offers multimedia lessons, tools, and articles on taking pain medications appropriately and safely, with an entire risk management curriculum devoted specifically to opioids.

Finally, painACTION provides specialized tools to empower patients in self-managing pain. Users can track their pain with an online Daily Pain Tracker, and print out charts to share with their health care provider. They can also complete skill-based lessons for self-managing their specific pain condition, with learning modules for managing cancer pain, back pain, and migraine pain.

“We view resources such as painACTION to be a critical piece of the pain self-management puzzle,” says Emil Chiauzzi, Ph.D., a Principal Investigator in the project and Vice President of Product Strategy at Inflexxion. “It is important that people in pain build the daily coping skills to complement formal medical treatment, and utilizing the Internet affords consistent and reliable access to such information.”

The ongoing dissemination of painACTION is supported by Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

To learn more about painACTION, visit the website at www.painACTION.com.

About Inflexxion Founded in 1989, Inflexxion leverages technology to improve public health. We create clinically validated tools and programs for critical areas of health care, including prevention and wellness education, addiction and pain treatment, and pharmaceutical risk management. These innovative solutions help reduce health-related risks, enhance clinical outcomes, and positively impact the quality of care.

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