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24th Annual Meeting February 13-18, 2008 Orlando, FL

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Saturday, February 16, 2008: 3:45 PM-5:45 PM
(405) Diagnosing Neuropathic Pain
Neuropathic pain (NP) is one of the most frequently encountered conditions, but there is a shortage of guidelines on how to use validated surveys and how to perform a standardized bedside clinical exam to diagnose it. We will present new data from the Neuropathic Pain Research Consortium (NPRC), which is a multi-institution group of academic investigators, illustrating a newly developed, validated history and exam procedure for diagnosing NP. This is a follow up to last year’s symposium from NPRC, during which we introduced these concepts. A standardized, valid, and easily administered diagnostic procedure for NP is important to the clinician and crucial to the scientific rigor of clinical trials.
3:45 PM Introduction
Ajay D. Wasan, MD, MSc
4:00 PM The Use of Scales and Quantitative Sensory Testing
Gordon A. Irving, MD
4:30 PM A Structured Clinical Evaluation Developed by the Neuropathic Pain Research Consortium
Miroslav Misha Backonja, MD
5:00 PM Review of the Validation Data from the Neuropathic Pain Research Consortium
Charles Argoff, MD
5:30 PM Question & Answer

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