AAPM - American Academy of Pain Medicine
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The Pain Matters Podcast Network is presented by the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It’s the nation’s leading podcast network for healthcare providers focused on providing the best care today, tomorrow, and beyond. Home to multiple pain-focused podcasts, we share the latest innovations and practical applications that directly impact how we care for patients and measure success in multidisciplinary care in every episode.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed conversations connect pain treatment, research quality and healthcare policy without smoothing over the conflicts that shape clinical decisions.
Pain Matters Podcast Network follows the pressure points where pain care, clinical evidence and health policy collide. The host leads technically detailed conversations about spinal cord stimulation coverage, procedure guidelines, conflicts of interest and the standards used to…
A spinal cord stimulation coverage fight puts your evidence hierarchy on the witness stand.
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A blunt defense of spinal cord stimulation that centers on evidence standards, trial limits, and device approval realities.
This episode pushes back on the habit of treating evidence criticism and industry funding as the same charge. It argues that spinal cord stimulation deserves tougher placebo and sham controlled studies, while also noting that those trials are costly and hard to run, especially…
A grounded look at cannabis, impairment, and the limits of certainty.
Dr. Wallace keeps the focus on practical questions: how medicinal and recreational use differ, why alcohol and THC can be a rough mix, and what clinicians can actually write down when impairment is disputed.
A clear look at why pain fellowship recruitment is harder than the headline suggests.
This piece treats pain fellowship training as a pipeline problem, not just an education problem. It starts with the poll result, then follows the reasons people hesitate: the appeal of procedures, the different starting points of anesthesiology and physiatry trainees, and the…
A clinical look at medicinal cannabis that stays with dose, delivery, and effect.
Pain medicine gets handled in a practical way here, with medicinal cannabis weighed against opioids and the focus kept on inhalation, edibles, topicals, THC, and CBD as they relate to dose, onset, and effect.
A clear look at how the FTC's noncompete ruling could reshape physician contracts and departure terms.
The episode centers on the FTC's April 23 ruling to ban noncompetes and uses pain medicine as the lens for explaining what may follow. It is strongest when it draws a clean line between the agency's authority and Congress's leverage over the FTC's resources, then connects that…
A steady, practical look at pain relief that favors treatment over panic while leaving room for alternatives.
This episode treats acetaminophen in pregnancy and childhood as a practical question, not a headline fight. Dr. Amber Barucki keeps the discussion grounded in safety, risk, and the situations where acetaminophen may not be the best pick.
A measured case for separating dependence from addiction, with a useful look at craving science and compulsive behavior.
The episode draws a clear line between dependence and addiction, and it makes the case that collapsing every physical reliance into substance use disorder has caused real harm.
A measured look at financial conflict, documentation, and the limits of clinical familiarity.
The discussion keeps its focus on the friction between financial ties and clinical judgment, and it argues for firm firewalls when someone has a stake in the company yet remains involved in outcomes.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Morning medical evidence, compressed for practice.
Medical research, translated through patient experience.
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.
Pain Matters looks at how financial interests can blur accountability when clinicians help judge outcomes.
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The show opens a multipart series on artificial intelligence and medicine.
The show opens with a warning about fragmentation.
Pain medicine fellowship directors from Montefiore and UC Davis discuss the critical shortcomings of the current one-year fellowship model, revealing alarming data about declining applicant numbers and program fill rates.
This Pain Matters Podcast episode examines the escalating crisis of workplace violence against healthcare workers, with particular focus on pain clinicians who face elevated risks due to opioid prescribing decisions and the subjective nature of pain.
Washington State’s pre-November 17, 2023 exclusion of spinal cord stimulation coverage sits at the center of a tightly argued policy and clinical hearing.
Maia Szalavitz starts by separating dependence from addiction.
The episode opens by responding to a recent JAMA viewpoint on corporate influence in spinal cord stimulation and the evidence behind it.
The episode opens on the FTC's April 23 ruling to ban noncompetes and asks what it could mean for medicine, with pain medicine as the practical test case.
Pain Matters revisits medical marijuana with a clinician's eye.
Pain Matters focuses the conversation on SI joint injections, overutilization, and the argument for linking reimbursement to clinical outcomes.
The episode focuses on acetaminophen use in pregnancy and in children.
The episode looks at medicinal cannabis in pain medicine.