Comprehensive Pain Management in the Rehabilitation Patient

Alexios Carayannopoulos, DO, MPH Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Director, Comprehensive Spine Center Division Director, Rehabilitation, Pain Medicine Department of Neurosurgery Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University Rhode Island Hospital Providence, RI, 02903 Alexios Carayannopoulos, DO, MPH, is an osteopathic physician who is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as Pain Medicine. He is the medical director of Lahey Hospital & Medical Center's Spine Center, which specializes in comprehensive spine care including surgical and non-surgical approaches. He completed his residency at Harvard Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Mass General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He completed his fellowship in the Department of Anesthesia at Dartmouth Medical School and Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, New Hampshire. Additionally, Dr. Carayannopoulos is a Harvard trained medical acupuncturist and US Navy trained specialist in Diving and Undersea Medicine. He is a 12 year veteran of the US Navy Medical Corps. Dr. Carayannopoulos is proficient in Greek, French, Spanish, and Italian.

PAIN IN THE ADULT REHABILITATION SETTING   Spinal cord injury rehabilitation.- Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.- Stroke rehabilitation.- Vascular rehabilitation.- Neuro-muscular disease rehabilitation.- Burn rehabilitation .- Cardiac rehabilitation.- Pulmonary rehabilitation.- Cancer rehabilitation.- MSK/orthopedic joint replacement rehabilitation.- Degenerative spine rehabilitation.- Geriatric rehabilitation .- Headache rehabilitation .- Addiction rehabilitation.- ETIOLOGY OF PAIN   Nociceptive Pain.- Neuropathic Pain .- Deafferentation Pain.- Central Pain.- Peripheral Pain.- Mixed Pain .- Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia Syndrome.- NON-SURGICAL TREATMENT Spectrum of Pain Care.- Physical Therapy.- Occupational Therapy.- Orthotics and Prosthetics.- Vocational Therapy.- Recreational Therapy.- Music Therapy .- Medication Management.- Alternative Medicine.- Psychological Management of Pain.- Interventional Procedures.- SURGICAL TREATMENT Implantable Therapies.- Surgical Options.- EMERGING TECHNOLOGY.

"This textbook accomplishes its goal of being comprehensive by covering multiple topics as it pertains to the physiatrist in training and those in their early years of practice. ... Unlike other pain textbooks, this book does provide more detail on physical therapy, occupational therapy, and aqua therapy programs ... . For anesthesiologists practicing pain management, this book can serve as a quick reference guide on such treatment modalities when managing patients with acute and chronic pain ... ." (Paul D. Weyker and Christopher A. J. Webb, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol.127 (1), July, 2018)