Advances in Pain Management, a CME-accredited educational program, systematically identifies, evaluates, and places into clinical context the most important recent studies into the science and medicine of pain management. It provides rapid access for busy pain specialists (including anesthesiologists, neurologists, oncologists, general physicians, and primary care physicians) to a critical and clinically relevant review of the developments that will have most impact on their day-to-day practice and is designed to provide management options for clinicians to allow them to better diagnose and treat patients suffering chronic pain.

Each issue of Advances in Pain Management will present carefully constructed leading (review) articles, written by practicing pain specialists, and intended to equip readers with practical knowledge of the area under discussion. These articles are commissioned to support particular educational themes identified by the Editor-in-Chief, Editorial team, and readers. This issue of Advances in Pain Management presents three such leading articles.