Cryoneurolysis is an innovative new method to treat pain associated with spasticity via a drug-free percutaneous treatment that may offer long-lasting surgical-like results. We will outline the novel idea of pre-screening with ultrasound-guided nerve blocks.
We will offer a comprehensive package, teaching the science and clinical cases, reviewing the evidence, and providing an ultrasound-guided hour-long demonstration of targeting nerves. The foundation of cryoneurolysis for pain associated with spasticity is patient and caregiver-identified goals. We will underscore that our treatment paradigm is heavily based on an indigenous model of informed consent and patient prediction of what the future will look like, through pre-treatment diagnostic nerve blocks.
Review of the rapidly emerging literature from 2019 to the present, including analysis of side effects. This will highlight the evidence-based methodology that underscores cryoneurolysis.
Clinical care choices, multiple case examples where the audience gets to choose which nerves they would target.
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