Our mission
The Interventional Pain Academy – IPA was created to continuously fulfill the interests of interventional pain physicians in their needs and demands for high quality education. A platform where they can share information in the form of open professional communication and mutual discussion with the aim of professional enrichment.
Reach out to doctors who are dedicated to providing health care and services in the field of interventional pain management. To connect doctors from this field, especially in the region of Central Europe. Doctors who work in different environments. In the premises of private ambulatory surgical centers, algesiology, orthopedic, anesthesiology clinics, as well as doctors working in hospital departments.
Excellence in practice lies in education
Among the professional guarantors of the IPA, thanks to the founder of the IPA MUDr. Robert Rapčan, they find world leaders and personalities of interventional algesiology whose professional opinions and experience from clinical practice indicate the direction of the entire field.
These personalities invite all physicians who practice interventional pain management to join our rapidly growing educational institution and benefit from its continued support.
The purpouse of the IPA is also to motivate doctors to constantly strive for excellence in their field, participate in educational programs, participate in publications, certification and medical advocacy of our procedures.
Support of interventional techniques
Interventional pain management techniques are minimally invasive procedures. The basic procedure is percutaneous precise placement of the needle. With subsequent application of drugs to target areas, or ablation of targeted nerves. It also includes some surgical techniques, such as laser or endoscopic discectomy, intrathecal infusion pumps, and spinal cord stimulators, to diagnose and manage chronic, persistent, or intractable pain.
The IPA also aims to promote the development and practice of safe, high-quality yet cost-effective interventional pain management techniques, procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders. Also ensure patient access to these interventions.
Basic challenges:
- Support the development and practice of high-quality interventional pain management techniques according to the principles: safety, appropriateness, affordability
- Increase the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment of pain-related disorders and ensure patient access to these interventions.
- To enhance knowledge based on the principles of safety, evidence-based medicine and compliance in the delivery of state-of-the-art interventional pain management.
- Communicate with patients, the public, CMS, and third-party payers about interventional pain management services.
- Pursue excellence in interventional pain management education.