Asian Pain Academy

Introduction: A New Chapter for Facet Joint Pain Facet-mediated spinal pain remains one of the most discussed—and sometimes most misunderstood—areas of interventional pain medicine. Should every patient with facet arthropathy on MRI receive a facet injection? Should every patient with a positive medial branch block proceed to radiofrequency ablation? Are intra-articular facet injections still relevant? And perhaps most importantly: Is radiofrequency ablation still the preferr

The Participant Review: Asian Pain Academy Pain Management Workshop (July 2–5, 2026) page showcases the experiences and feedback of doctors who attended our intensive four-day workshop in Pain Medicine. Participants from India and Nepal share how the combination of evidence-based lectures, live demonstrations, and supervised hands-on training in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSK USG) and fluoroscopy-guided pain interventions helped strengthen their clinical skills and confidenc