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Overview: history of pain medicine, pain mechanisms, evaluation of the pain patient, pain measurement, laboratory investigations, radiography and neuroimaging. Special Examinations: neurophysiologic studies, diagnostic nerve block, thermography, psychologic evaluation and treatment, functional evaluation. Modalities of pain management: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, opioids and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory analgesics, coanalgesic agents; anesthesiologic; organization and function of nerve block facility, local anesthetics, techniques, central nerve blocks, peripheral nerve blocks, autonomic nerve blocks. Special techniques: epidural steroids, facet blocks, epidural infusion and patient controlled epidural analgesia, implantable drug-delivery system, neurolytic agents, peripheral neurolysis, cryolysis, radiofrequency, acupuncture, analgesia with intravenous local anesthetics, ablative techniques, neural stimulation; spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation, physical therapy. Pain syndromes: taxonomy, trauma, postsurgical pain, obstetric pain, acute medical diseases, headache and facial pain, neck and shoulder, low back pain, musculoskeletal pain, visceral pain, pelvic pain, central nervous system pain, peripheral nervous system pain, the autonomic nervous system, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, phantom pain, miscellaneous pain disorders, cancer pain syndromes, chronic pain syndromes in children, acute pain syndromes in children.