Training Topic Library
The Certified Pain Representative (CPR) Training Topic Library represents an expansive reference library* containing the most current literature, expert opinions, and guidelines related to the management of pain and its comorbidities. The goals of the CPR training are to develop materials based on specific, not generic, educational needs and to help "contextualize" the materials in relation to those needs. What differentiates CPR training from other types of sales training is that it is not an "off-the-shelf" program, but rather a customized approach tailored to the needs of the organization’s product portfolio, culture, and field force composition.
Barriers to Effective Pain Management
- Drug screening and testing
- Medical legal issues in pain management
- Risk stratification
- By risk of medications
- By risk of adverse events
Emerging Technologies
Opinion Leader Perspectives
Pain Guidelines and Best Practices
Pain
- Epidemiology and classification
- Assessment and diagnosis
- Mechanisms and neurobiology
- Pain market landscape
Pharmacology
- Analgesic and adjuvant pain medications
- Anesthetics for the treatment of pain
- Antidepressants for the treatment of pain
- Anticonvulsants for the treatment of pain
- Antipsychotics for the treatment of pain
- Muscle relaxants for the treatment of pain
- Anxiolytics for the treatment of pain
- NSAIDs & COX2 inhibitors for the treatment of pain
- Opioids
- Mechanisms of action
- Receptor function and difference
- Matching molecules to receptors
- Binding affinity and opioid selection
- Common opioid-related side effects
- Uncommon opioid side effects
- Opioid bowel dysfunction
- Managing opioid-induced nausea and vomiting
- Minimizing opioid prescribing risk
- Proper patient selection for long-term opioid therapy
Metabolism
Polypharmacy
Pain Syndromes
- Migraine headache pain
- Neuropathic pain syndromes
- Pain and addiction
- Pain in children/adolescents
- Pain in older people
- Pain with cancer
- Pain with HIV
- Pain syndromes unique to women
- Pain syndromes unique to men
- Pain with degenerative neurologic disease
- Pain with cardiovascular disease
- Pain with gastrointestinal disease
- Pain with substance use/abuse
- Pain with autoimmune disorders
- Pain with osteoarthritis
- Pain with dermatologic disorders
- Pain with musculoskeletal disorders
- Pain with urogenital disorders
- Pain and fibromyalgia
- Pain and vascular disease
- Myofascial pain
- Pain and depression
- Pain and anxiety
- Pain after trauma
- Pain at end of life
- Pain with common medical procedures
- Pain-induced immune changes
- Pain-induced endocrine changes
- Pain and pregnancy
- Pre-, peri-, and post-op pain management
Multidisciplinary Pain Programs
Controversies in Managing Pain
Novel Molecules for Pain Relief
Delivery Methods for Medication
Pain Professionals—Roles and Responsibilities
- Anaesthesiologists
- Behavioral psychologists
- Dentist
- Complementary/Alternative
- Neurologists
- Neurophysiologists
- Pharmacists
- Community
- Consulting
- Health system
- Podiatrists
- Physiatrists
- Psychiatrists
- Rheumatologists
Occupational, Physical, and Vocational Therapy for Pain
- Physical therapy methods for the treatment of pain
Occupational therapy techniques for the treatment of pain
- Importance of vocational rehabilitation for people with pain
Cognitive Therapy and Hypnosis in Pain Management
- Using cognitive-behavioral methods for pain management
- Role of hypnosis, relaxation, and/or guided imagery for pain control
- Acupuncture for pain relief
- Massage therapy and other types of body work for pain
- Work hardening in the rehabilitation of people with pain-related work disruptions
Interventional Pain
- Interventional methods for the treatment of pain
- Role of injection techniques for the treatment of pain
- Role of implanted technologies for the treatment of pain
*Additional topics may be developed as needed.