Pain / Neuromuscular Medicine Rehabilitation

Pain Medicine / Chronic Pain

• Central and central nervous system pain states
  • Post-stroke pain
    • Central Poststroke Pain
  • Phantom Pain
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Pain and Traumatic brain injury
    • Traumatic Brain Injury
• Peripheral Pain Disorders
  • Headache
    • Tension
    • Cervicogenic Headache
    • Post Traumatic Headache
    • Migraine Headaches
    • Cluster
  • Facial-oral pain
    • Trigeminal neuralgia
    • Temporal mandibular joint syndrome
  • Spinal/paraspinal or cervical/thoracic/lumbosacral pain
    • Radiculopathy
      1. Cervical stenosis
      2. Lumbar spondylolisthesis
      3. Lumbar stenosis
    • Myofascial pain
    • Facet mediated pain
      1. Facet Mediated Pain
      2. Lumbar spondylosis without myelopathy
      3. Lumbar zygapophyseal joint arthropathy
      4. Pediatric spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
      5. Cervical and Thoracic Zygapophsial joint arthropathy
    • Sacro-iliac joint pain
      1. Inflammatory Arthritides
      2. Post-laminectomy pain
    • Discogenic pain
      1. Lumbar disc disorders
      2. Discogenic Lumbar Pain
      3. Lumbar Strain
      4. Thoracic radiculopathy/myelopathy
      5. Seronegative spondyloarthropathy
    • Chest wall pain syndrome
    • Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome (PMPS)
    • Cervical Dystonia
  • Abdominal and pelvic pain
    • Somatic Abdominal and Pelvic Pain
    • Visceral pain: pelvic disorders
      1. Differential diagnosis and treatment of visceral pain in the pelvis and abdomen
  • Pelvic/perineal pain
    • SI Joint Pain
    • Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
    • Congenital hip dysplasia
    • Iliotibial band syndrome
  • Limb pain: non-neuropathic
    • Vascular
      1. Ischemic
      2. Post-phlebitic
      3. Vascular thoracic outlet
         1. Thoracic outlet syndrome
      4. Compartment syndrome
    • Inflammatory Arthritides
    • Hemophilia and hemorrhagic arthropathy
    • Connective tissue
      1. Collagen vascular disease
         1. Inflammatory Arthritides
    • Congenital hip dysplasia
  • Peripheral neuropathic pain
    • Acute herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia
    • Neuropathy
      1. Diabetic
         1. Diabetic neuropathy
      2. Metabolic
         1. Peripheral Polyneuropathy Part 1: Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis
         2. Peripheral Polyneuropathy Part 2: Treatment
         3. Toxic
         4. Alcoholic
         5. Human immune virus
         6. Small fiber
    • Peripheral nerve tumors
  • Complex regional pain syndrome
    • Complex regional pain syndrome Part 1: Essentials of Assessment and Diagnosis
    • Complex regional pain syndrome Part 2: Management and Treatment
  • Autonomically mediated pain/autonomic pain syndromes
  • Painful medical diseases
    • Neurological diseases
      1. Multiple Sclerosis
      2. AIDP/CIDP Part 1: Evaluation and Diagnosis
      3. AIDP/CIDP Part 2: Treatment
    • Human immune virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome
      1. Lyme Disease
      2. Porphyria
• Psychological pain components
  • Somatiform disorders
    • Conversion Disorder
    • Somatic Symptom Disorder
  • Psychological factors affecting physical disorders
    • Part 1: Evaluation and differential diagnosis
    • Part 2: A general approach to treatment

Neuromuscular Medicine

• Clinical neuromuscular conditions
  • Nerve root/radiculopathy
    • Electrodiagnosis of Radiculopathies (Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar)
  • Anterior horn cell
    • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
    • Poliomyelitis/post-polio syndrome
  • Neuromuscular junction
    • Electrodiagnostic Studies in Neuromuscular Junction Disorders
    • Myasthenia Gravis
    • Congenital / Acquired
    • Neuromuscular Junction Physiology
  • Other neuromuscular disorders
    • Lambert-Eaton myathenic syndrome
    • Toxins
    • Infection (botulism)
      1. Neuromuscular Junction Physiology
  • Peripheral nerve
    • Plexus
      1. Brachial
         1. Brachial Plexopathy: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment
         2. Traumatic
         3. Stingers and Burners
         4. Neoplastic/paraneoplastic
         5. Radiation
         6. Idiopathic
      2. Compressive/entrapment
         1. Brachial Plexus Compressive/Entrapment
         2. Intrinsic compression
         3. Extrinsic compression
         4. Perioperative
      3. Immune mediated
         1. Parsonage-Turner
         2. Neuralgic amyotrophy
         3. Immune Mediated Brachial Plexopathy
         4. Pediatric Immune Mediated Brachial Plexopathy
      4. Lumbosacral plexopathy
         1. Lumbosacral plexopathy and sciatic neuropathy: differential diagnosis and treatment
         2. Traumatic
         3. Compressive/entrapment
         4. Immune mediated
         5. Neoplastic/paraneoplastic
         6. Neuromuscular Manifestations of Neoplasms and Paraneoplastic Syndromes
         7. Diabetic
         8. Radiation
         9. Idiopathic
    • Upper extremity peripheral nerve injuries
    • Upper extremity proximal mononeuropathies
      1. Accessory
      2. Long thoracic
      3. Axillary
      4. Suprascapular
      5. Musculocutaneous
      6. Median nerve mononeuropathies
    • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
    • Ulnar nerve mononeuropathy
      1. Ulnar Mononeuropathy at the Wrist
      2. Ulnar nerve mononeuropathy at the elbow
    • Radial nerve mononeuropathy
      1. Radial nerve mononeuropathy
      2. Humeral level
      3. Posterior interosseous syndrome
      4. Radial tunnel syndrome
    • Trunk
    • Lower extremity peripheral nerve injuries
    • Proximal lower extremity mononeuropathies
      1. Proximal lower extremity mononeuropathies
      2. Ilioinguinal
      3. Genitofemoral
      4. Iliohypograstric
      5. Lateral femoral cutaneous
      6. Femoral/saphenous
      7. Obturator
    • Distal lower extremity mononeuropathies
      1. Distal lower extremity mononeuropathies
      2. Tibial
      3. Main trunk
      4. Fibular (peroneal)
      5. Sural
      6. Superficial peroneal differential and diagnosis
      7. Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
    • Intrinsic nerve injuries in foot
      • Morton’s neuroma
      • Medial plantar
      • Lateral plantar
      • Calcaneal nerve
    • Mononeuropathy multiplex
    • Generalized peripheral nerve disorders
      1. Inherited
         1. Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN)
      2. Autonomic peripheral nerve disorders
      3. Immune mediated
         1. HIV in Children and Adolescents
         2. Immune Mediated Neuropathies
         3. Peripheral neuropathies associated with systemic disease
      4. Peripheral neuropathies associated with drugs and toxins
  • Muscle
    • Dystrophies (adolescent and adult onset)
      1. Adult and Adolescent Onset Muscular Dystrophies Part 1: Evaluation and Diagnosis
         1. Emery-Dreifuss
         2. Limb girdle
            • Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
         3. Distal
         4. Facioscapulohumeral
            • Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
         5. Scapuloperoneal
         6. Oculopharyngeal
      2. Adult and Adolescent Muscular Dystrophies Part 2: Rehabilitation Management and Treatments
         1. Emery-Dreifuss
         2. Limb girdle
            • Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
         3. Distal
         4. Facioscapulohumeral
            • Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
         5. Scapuloperoneal
         6. Oculopharyngeal
      3. Myotonic dystrophy types
         1. Congenital
            • Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
         2. Adult onset
            • Myotonic Disorders of Muscle
    • Congenital myopathies
      1. Hereditary and sporadic inclusion body myositis
      2. Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
    • Metabolic myopathies
      1. Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
    • Mitochondrial myopathies
      1. Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
      2. Nondystrophic myotonia and periodic paralysis
      3. Rhabdomyolysis
    • Inflammatory myopathies
      1. Dermatomyositis
      2. Polymyositis
      3. Inclusion body myositis
      4. Necrotizing myopathy
      5. Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
    • Myopathy associated with systemic disease
      • Endocrine
      • Adult and Geriatric Muscle Disease
      • Critical illness myopathy
    • Toxic myopathy
  • Other genetic disorders
    • Arthrogryposis
• Electrodiagnosis
  • Nerve conduction studies
    • Nerve conduction studies
  • Needle electromyography
  • Electrodiagnostic Studies in Neuromuscular Junction Disorders
  • Special techniques in electrodiagnostic medicine
    • Special techniques in electrodiagnostic medicine
    • Single fiber electromyography
    • Autonomic testing
    • Quantitative methods in electromyography
  • Basic Electrodiagnostics for the Referring Physician

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