Short description
The webinar is focused on different origins of pain and the best management. Acute pain means the pain is short in duration, lasting from minutes to about three months and tends mainly to be related to a soft-tissue injury or a temporary systemic or local illness flare, so it typically subsides after the injury heals (i.e., acute trauma, tissue or organ acute problem, or infections) or the illness subsides and slowdown. Acute pain may evolve into chronic pain if the injury doesn’t heal correctly or if the pain signals malfunction. Chronic pain is often due to a chronic condition, like osteoarthritis (also secondary to bone anomalies), but also fibromyalgia, or a spine condition or several chronic diseases like rare and complex connective tissue diseases.
Therefore, different kinds of pain will be discussed.
Neuropathic pain is due to damage/lesion or disease (ie. Herpes, Diabetes) affecting the somatosensory nervous system peripherally or centrally. It is often described as shooting, stabbing, or burning pain, or it feels like pins and needles. Neuropathic pain is a common type of chronic pain.
Nociceptive pain is a type of pain caused by damage to body tissue. It is caused by the detection of noxious or potentially harmful stimuli by the nociceptors. Injuries to the body tissue can be internal from a disease such as cancer, or external due to a physical injury such as a cut, bruise or a broken bone.
Radicular pain that is a very specific type of pain can occur when the spinal nerve gets compressed or inflamed.
Localised pain (as symptom), both acute and chronic, should be managed only when the cause has been established and diagnosed. Therefore, localised pain, both acute and chronic, should not be treated/masked when the cause has not been established and diagnosed to let to investigate his origin.
Different levels of approaches to pain treatment and management must be evaluated and personalized to the single patient and disease.
Speaker
Prof. Maurizio Cutolo (MC) is Professor of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine at Laboratories of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Postgraduate School of Rheumatology, University of Genoa, Italy. MC is former President of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) (2013–2015) and the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR-2015). MC is Advisor of the EULAR Education Committee (EsOR) and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Autoimmune Association (AA - USA). MC serves as Deputy-Chair of the European Commission network on Rare and Complex Connective Tissue Disease (ReCONNET-ERN) and co-chair of the working group on Education & Training. MC is the founder and Chairman of the EULAR SG on “Neuroimmune Endocrinology on RMDs” and co-founder of the EULAR SG on “Microcirculation in RMDs” at EULAR. Former Vice-President (2004-2007) of the Italian Society for Rheumatology (SIR). Awards & Achievements 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award. MC is Senior Editor of Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Associate Editor of Neuroimmunomodulation and Nutrients, and editorial board member of Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, RMD open, Clinical Rheumatology and other Journals. MC and his team are involved in the following fields of research: systemic sclerosis, capillaroscopy and microcirculation in rheumatic diseases; role of sex hormones in the immune response and rheumatic diseases; the endocrine system of D vitamin; the chronotherapy of rheumatoid arthritis with night glucocorticoids; synovial macrophages as targets for biologicals in rheumatoid arthritis; basic research on new biosimilars in rheumatic diseases.
Moderator
Dr. Emanuele Gotelli, rheumatologist and Research Fellow at Laboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine and Specialties, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
More info can be found here: https://reconnet.ern-net.eu/
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