Course contents

Personalizing management of chronic pain: New tools for profiling

Prescribers
Pharmacists

Pain, Medical course 

In this lecture, Prof. Dr. Lars Arendt-Nielsen provides an overview of modern approaches to pain assessment, focusing on both traditional and mechanism-based tools used in clinical practice. He explains how these tools are applied to better diagnose pain conditions and personalize management by tailoring treatment plans to individual patient needs.

The session highlights the profiling of pain therapies and patients, emphasizing the importance of understanding individual differences in pain perception and treatment responses. This enables clinicians to optimize therapies for more effective and personalized outcomes. Prof. Arendt-Nielsen also introduces new emerging tools for pain profiling, which are expanding the capabilities of pain assessment. In addition, he explores the growing role of genetics, epigenetics, and OMICS technologies in further refining personalized pain management, offering deeper insights into the molecular mechanisms of pain and opening doors to new, customized therapies for patients.
 English only
  Prescribers, Pharmacists
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Why should I take this course?

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of advanced pain assessment tools and their clinical applications.
  • Learn how to personalize pain management based on patient profiling and individual treatment responses.
  • Explore emerging technologies, such as genetics, epigenetics, and OMICS, in the context of pain profiling.
  • Understand the latest innovations in pain therapies and how to optimize treatment strategies.
  • Enhance clinical decision-making by applying personalized mechanism-based tools for more accurate pain diagnosis and management.

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Meet your instructor

Prof. Dr. Lars Arendt-Nielsen

Prof. Dr. Lars Arendt-Nielsen is a professor in clinical and experimental pain research at the Department of Health Science and Technology, School of Medicine, Aalborg University and Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark.

He has been engaged in pain research, pain education, and pain policy for more than 30 years and worked at various institutions around the world. Dr. Lars has published has published 1,360 peer reviewed journal papers (sum of times cited 50,885, average citations per item 37.98, H-index 106, Web of Science) on translational, experimental, and clinical pain research, has delivered more than 300 keynote lectures at international conferences, and has collaborated with over 20 pain research centers and clinics around the world.