ACADEMY FUNDOLOR is a unique academic platform specialized in education for Pain Medicine based on ADVANCED PAIN CADAVER COURSES, which brings together the experience and teaching capacity of the:
Multidisciplinary Pain Management Department Anesthesia Department General University Hospital Valencia (Spain)
Anesthesiology Unit - Department of Surgery and Surgical specialities. University of Valencia
Anesthesiology Academic Area Department of Surgery and Surgical specialities. University of Barcelona
Human Anatomy and Embriology Unit. University of Barcelona
With a long experience, internationally recognized, we are doing cadaver (frozen/defrosted) workshops for the practice of interventional procedures of chronic pain management that cover the current treatment of pain within a multidisciplinary framework. All our training courses are practically orientated including hands-on part in the anatomy department, where the physicians attending will learn on cadaver different techniques for the management of the chronic pain patient.
Our world-renowned faculty, provides in our courses a useful information, a highly interactive learning, that the participant can use, after the course immediately in clinical practice.
In our pain courses we provide specific education on the use of fluoroscopy and other imaging modalities such as ultrasound. All the techniques in frozen (defrosted) cadavers are made using both fluoroscopy and ultrasound, throughout our work stations The courses are designed for pain practitioners (pain specialists, anesthesiologists, neurosurgeons,...), interested in the practice of pain management, who seek the latest developments in techniques.
The main language in our courses is English, and all documents and educational activity is giving in this language.
Our curriculum includes the latest advances in both diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain conditions. We organise 3 courses a year (may, june & november), all of them in the CLINIC HOSPITAL AND ANATOMY DEPARTMENT AT THE MEDICINE UNIVERSITY IN BARCELONA, SPAIN.
A list of the procedures covered in our courses include the following: Spinal Cord Stimulation; Intrathecal Drug Delivery and Intrathecal Pump Implantation; Musculoskeletal (MSK) sonoanatomy (hip knee, shoulder, hand, elbow and ankle) and scanning; Cervical Facet Block & Radiofrequency Lesioning; Kyphoplasty & Vertebroplasty ; Lumbar Facet Block, SI Joint injection and Ablation; Head & Neck Blocks for pain management; Sympathetic blocks: Splanchnic nerve block Lumbar Sympathetic, Hypogastric Plexus; Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD); Epiduroscopy...