| 11 October, 2024 |
9:30-11:00 | 1st session. Acute pain |
| CHAIRS – Winfried Meissner (D), Aleksejs Miščuks (LV) |
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9:30-9:55 | Winfried Meissner (DE) – Acute pain management – state of the art 2024 |
9:55-10:10 | Iveta Golubovska (LV) – Results of the PAIN OUT project in Latvia |
10:10-10:30 | Aleksejs Miščuks (LV) – Diagnostic tools in diagnostics of acute pain |
10:30-10:45 | TBA |
10:45-11:00 | TBA |
11:00-11:10 | Free paper – Evija Švalkovska (LV) TAP Block after laparotomy in ICU |
11:10-11:20 | Discussion |
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11:20-11:30 | Coffee break |
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11:30-13:30 | 2nd session. Headache |
| CHAIRS – Messoud Ashina, Guntis Karelis (LV) |
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11:30-11:55 | Zaza Katsarava (DE) – Practical training: how to diagnose primary headaches. |
11:55-12:20 | Aydin Gozalov (DK) – Management of migraine in 10 steps. |
12:20-12:45 | Messoud Ashina (DK) – Emerging Targets in Migraine Therapy. |
12:45-13:00 | Saulius Andruškevičius (LT) – Ahead of the pain: biosensors in migraine attack prediction. |
13:00-13:15 | Liga Mekša (LV) – Epidemiology of migraine. |
| 1 TBA |
13:15-13:25 | Discussion |
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13:30-15:00 | Lunch |
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15:00-16:30 | 3rd session. Neuromodulation: |
| CHAIRS – Rokas Tamosauskas (UK), Iveta Golubovska (LV) |
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15:00-15:25 | Pedram Tabatabaei (SE) – Burst DR stimulation and DRG stimulation: Mechanism of action and Indications |
15:25-15:50 | Rokas Tamosauskas (UK) – To implant or not to implant: the role of Spinal Cord Stimulation in modern pain medicine |
15:50-16:15 | Basels Jakubs Vahbe (LV) – Vagus nerve stimulation experience in Latvia |
16:15-16:30 | Discussion |
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16:30-18:00 | 4th session. Chronic localized and diffuse pain |
| CHAIRS – Magdalena Kocot-Kępska (PL), Irina Evansa (LV) |
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16:30-16:55 | Magdalena Kocot- Kępska (PL) – Are we expecting new analgesics? |
16:55-17:15 | Egija Lapiņa (LV) – Multidisciplinary approaches to Improving Patient Experience in Chronic Pain treatment |
17:15-17:40 | Vladimir Romanenko (UA) – “Pain the guts”: How microbiota regulates pain |
17:40-18:00 | Larisa Ēriksone (LV) – Three technologies used in pain therapy |
18:00-18:20 | Edgars Vasilevskis (LV) – Pain mechanisms in Chinese medicine. What is common with western way? |
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20:00 | Social Evening (with invitations only) |
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| 12 October, 2024 |
10:00-11:30 | 1st session. Chronic localized and diffuse pain |
| CHAIRS – Ināra Logina (LV), Edgars Vasiļevskis (LV) |
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10:00-10:20 | Skļarevičs (LV) – Patogenesis of shoulder impigement and how to help. |
10:20-10:40 | Sergei Gordienko MD – Aerobic exercise training to improve treatment outcomes in adult patients with fibromyalgia. Theory and our experience. |
10:40-11:00 | Arunas Sciupokas (LT) – Education in Pain Medicine: Where we are going to? |
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11:30-12:00 | Coffee break |
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12:00-14:00 | 2nd session. Invasive pain management |
| CHAIRS – Arun Bhaskar, Olaf Rohof |
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12:00-12:25 | Olaf Rohof (NL) – The Potential of PRF-treatment in Immune Modulation and Pain Management: Bridging the Gap between Engineering and Clinical Practice. |
12:25-12:50 | Arun Bhaskar (UK) – Sacroiliac joint – a not so uncommon cause for low back pain? |
12:50-13:15 | Nadiya Segin (UA) – Invasive treatment of phantom pain. |
13:15-13:30 | Rihards Starinskis (LV) – Epidural steroid injection- are they still as relevant? |
13:30-13:50 | Darius Dicevičius (LT) – Autologous platelet rich plasma ultrasound guided epidural injections: case series. |