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Track: Main Meeting / Live Streaming

PS-07 - Neurodestructive Treatments for Pain

Saturday, November 15, 2025
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
Location: Lone Star Salon D-E
CE: 2.0

Disclosure(s):
Ariana M. Nelson, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Learning Objectives:

  • Evaluate the role of neurodestructive and alternative interventional techniques in the management of pain, with an emphasis on patient selection, procedural considerations, and evolving practice trends.
  • Summarize the clinical applications, procedural techniques, and reimbursement pathways for cryoneurolysis in modern pain practice.
  • Implement evidence-based procedural modifications and patient selection strategies to optimize outcomes and minimize complications for spinal radiofrequency ablation.
  • Compare and contrast regenerative medicine and neuromodulation with traditional neurolytic approaches, and evaluate their relative efficacy, safety, and long-term outcomes.

Presentations:

  • 2:30 PM - 2:35 PM CT
    Improving Cancer Pain Control through a Standardized Educational Telephone Intervention: A Quality Improvement Pilot Study

    Submitting Author: Jared Eng, MD – University of Washington

    Co-Author: Tiffany Go, MPA – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

    Co-Author: Mackenzie Welsh, PharmD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

    Co-Author: Margaret Hsu, MD – University of Washington

    Co-Author: Simran Ghuman, PharmD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

  • 2:35 PM - 2:40 PM CT
    Activity Goal Outcomes as Complementary Measures of Treatment Success for SCS Patients at 12 Months

    Submitting Author: Cory Goracke, PhD – Medtronic

    Co-Author: Melissa Murphy, MD, MPH – North Texas Orthopedics and Spine Center

    Co-Author: Andrew Will, MD – Twin Cities Pain Clinic

    Co-Author: Thomas White, MD – Procura Pain and Spine PLLC

    Co-Author: Velimir Micovic, MD – Pain Management Consultants of Southwest Florida

    Co-Author: David O'Toole, MD – Novant Health Spine Specialists

    Presenting Author: David A. Provenzano, MD – Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care

    Co-Author: Saurabh Dang, MD – Garden State Pain and Orthopedics

    Co-Author: Katherine Stromberg, MS – Medtronic

    Co-Author: Grace Santa Cruz Chavez, MSBE, PhD – Medtronic

  • 2:40 PM - 3:05 PM CT
    Indications, Considerations, and Risks of Chemical Neurolysis for Cancer Pain

    Speaker: Ehtesham Baig, MSc, MD, FRCPC (Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine) – University of Toronto

  • 3:05 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Cryoneurolysis - Role in Current Pain Practice and How to Get Reimbursed for It

    Speaker: Gary Schwartz, MD FASA – Maimonides Medical Center/ AABP, LLP

  • 3:30 PM - 3:55 PM CT
    Optimizing Radiofrequency Ablation Procedures on the Spine

    Speaker: Steven P. Cohen, MD (he/him/his) – Northwestern University

  • 3:55 PM - 4:25 PM CT
    Alternatives to Neurolytic Therapies for Pain: Regenerative Medicine and Neuromodulation

    Speaker: Sayed E. Wahezi, MD (he/him/his) – Montefiore Multidisciplinary Pain Program

  • 4:25 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Billing & Coding Pearls

    Speaker: Ariana M. Nelson, MD (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine