Pain Matters Podcast Network · AAPM - American Academy of Pain Medicine

In Response: BMJ Interventional Spine Guidelines 2025

·47 min·4 clips
When you're looking for evidence in a space where at times there isn't evidence,
when you're looking for evidence in a space where at times there isn't evidence, that doesn't mean that you throw the baby out with the bathwater. what ends up leading to things like this, and this is the same thing with, you know, medicare. this is the same thing with the fda, is when procedures start to be overused, it adversely affects the risk-benefit ratio and the cost-effectiveness ratio.

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A blunt look at evidence, access, and procedure politics in pain medicine.

At the center of the episode is a blunt argument about pain medicine: evidence matters, but procedure use and access to care are never simple.

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Press play if you want a clinician-level look at how evidence, overuse, and payer pressure shape pain-procedure debates.

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