Scientific Program

New Pathways for Treatment of Knee Pain
Chair: Thibaut Vanneste

Thibaut Vanneste (20 min.)
Diagnosis and conservative management of knee pain

Steven Cohen (25 min.)
Interventional treatment of knee pain

Agnes Stogicza (15 min.)
Ultrasonography of genicular nerves of the knee

Marshall Devor (10 min.)
Intrinsic vs. extrinsic innervation of bone ends

Roundtable (20 min.)
Chair: Thibaut Vanneste with the speakers, Lee Dellon, Steven Cohen and the audience.
Joint pain syndromes

Discogenic Low Back Pain
Chair: Sudhir Diwan

Jan Willem Kallewaard (25 min.)
Provocative discogram

Milan Stojanovic (20 min.)
Interventional approaches for discogenic pain

Sudhir Diwan (20 min.)
Biologicals in discogenic low back pain

Roundtable and Q&A (25 min.)
Chair: Sudhir Diwan with the speakers, Nagy Mekhail and the audience.
Discogenic origin vs. other causes of low back pain

Collection of “Real-World” Data as a Substitute for RCTs in
Interventional Pain Practice
Chair: Sean Mackey

Sean Mackey (20 min.)
Acceptance of “real-world" evidence by the scientific, regulatory and insurance communities.

Richard Rauck (25 min.)
Pain registries with a focus on interventional procedures

‪Jan Willem Kallewaard‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ (25 min.)
Neurizon, an international registry focused on neuromodulation for pain relief

Roundtable (20 min.)
Chair: Sean Mackey with the speakers, Peter Staats and the audience.
"Real-world" data collection as a substitute for RCTs in IPP

Pain Relief in the Digital Age
Chair: Beth Darnall

Sean Mackey (25 min.)
Digital platform for acute and chronic pain, and running pragmatic trials for invasive interventions

Beth Darnall (25 min.)
Digital treatments for procedural, chronic, and surgical pain

Laura Simons (20 min.)
Virtual reality and digital treatment

Discussion with Q&A (20 min.)
Chair: Beth Darnall and speakers with Chris Gilligan, Dominic Hegarty and the audience.
Pain relief in the digital age

Microneurography: A Key Diagnostic Tool for Interventional Pain Practice
Chair: Marshall Devor

Jordi Serra (25 min.)
Carrying out and analyzing microneurographic recordings

Andreas Themistocleous (20 min.)
Ectopic afferent discharge as a pain driver in animals and humans

Jordi Serra (20 min.)
Microneurographic recording – live demonstration

Discussion (25 min.)
Chair: Jordi Serra with Andreas Themistocleous and the audience.
What have we just seen?

Interventional Pain Practice (IPP) Around the World
Chair: Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez

James Rathmell (20 min.)
Founders, major centers and growth over 5 decades – North America

Chris Wells (15 min.)
Founders, major centers and growth over 5 decades – The UK and Europe

Yu-Chuan (Grace) Tsai (15 min.)
Founders, major centers and growth over 5 decades in Asia

Dominic Hegarty (15 min.)
National and international pain societies and the role of Zoom

Panel Discussion (25 min.)
Chair: Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez with the speakers, Ricardo Plancarte, Raad Al-Kafaji and the audience.
How to advance in China, Russia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America

Personalized Pain Medicine
Chair: Jan Van Zundert

Jan Van Zundert (25 min.)
Interventional pain medicine: challenges and limitations of personalized treatment

Sander van Kuijck (25 min.)
Prediction modelling of personalized pain care

Jorn Lotsch (20 min.)
Toward precision medicine in pain: Research and clinical challenges

Roundtable Discussion (20 min.)
Chair: Jan Van Zundert with the speakers and the audience.
Personalized pain medicine

Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
Chair: Peter Staats

Sean Li (25 min.)
Transcutaneous (TENS) and direct peripheral nerve stimulation (wired and wireless)

Ismail Gultuna (20 min.)
Subcutaneous stimulation (SubQ) as additional therapy to spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in the treatment of chronic low back pain due to failed back surgery syndrome

Peter Staats (25 min.)
Vagus nerve stimulation for affective disorders: anxiety, depression and PTSD

Discussion (20 min.)
Chair: Peter Staats with the speakers and the audience.
How can nerve stimulation favorably affect so many different kinds of conditions?

Pearls in Nerve and Spinal Interventions
Chair: Jan Van Zundert

Jan Van Zundert (10 min.)
Agents and procedures used for nerve blocks

Jee You Moon (20 min.)
How to perform excellent nerve blocks

Milan Stojanovic (20 min.)
How to interpret optimal imaging for spinal interventions

Jordi Serra (20 min.)
What can we learn of 'mistery' chronic pain conditions with microneurography

Roundtable and Q&A (20 min.)
Chair: Jan Van Zundert with the speakers and the audience.
Pearls in nerve and spinal Interventions

Oral Abstract Presentations: Neuromodulation 
Co-Chairs: Tom Yearwood, Altan Şahin

Dominic Hegarty (15 min.)
Multicenter Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial Model of High-Frequency Sinusoidal Neurostimulation versus TENS for the Teatment of Musculoskeletal Pain

Sean Li (15 min.)
Non-Surgical Refractory Back Pain Patients Implanted with 10 kHz Spinal Cord Stimulation Report Long-term Improvements in Pain and Non-Pain Outcomes

Edip Gonullu (15 min.)
Retrospective analysis of rapid onset of analgesia (FAST) mode in spinal cord stimulation

Aysel Gezer (15 min.)
Different indications of spinal cord stimulation in patients: A 10-year experience 

Abhiram Yedlapalli (15 min.)
Outcome benefits of Opioid Free Anaesthesia in Urological oncological surgeries- A single centre randomised blinded trial

Richard Rauck (15 min.)
Prospective, Multicenter, Patient-Outcomes Evaluation of a Spinal Cord Stimulation System Designed to Engage Surround Inhibition Using Fast-Acting Sub-Perception Therapy for Chronic Pain (FAST Study)

Oral Abstract Presentations: Chronic Pain in Children
Co-Chairs: Lee Dellon, Pakize Kırdemir

Gözde Dağıstan (15 min.)
Management of the Pediatric Patient with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Mario Sanchez Franco (15 min.)
Neurostimulator Placement in a 13-Year-Old Girl With Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Case Report.

Danielle Masetto Cadide (15 min.)
Pulsed Radiofrequency Neuromodulation in Pediatric Headache Management: A Case Study On Occipital Neuralgia Intervention

Suna Aşkın Turan (15 min.)
USG Guided Proximal GONB is effective and safe for chronic migraine during pregnancy

Şebnem Rumeli (15 min.)
Evaluation of Fentanyl Use in Vaso-oclusive Crisis in Sickle Cell Disease.