Pain medicine
The medical specialty of Pain treats chronic pain using interventions & interdisciplinary care.
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How to best treat fibromyalgia
Patients with fibromyalgia experience chronic, diffuse pain across the body, due to exquisitely sensitivity of the brain & spinal cord
Diets that may be helpful for chronic pain
While the science of nutrition continues to evolve, I have seen many patients with pain profoundly improve after making one
Back pain from lumbar radiculopathy: how to treat it?
The vertebrae, which protect the spinal cord and spinal nerves, through daily activities experience normal wear-and-tear. Sometimes this causes slight
What is lumbar facet arthropathy and how to treat it?
Axial low back pain is often due to arthritic pain of spine facet joints, which sustain wear-and-tear from daily activities.
Treating pain at nerve-body interface
Small sensory nerves throughout the body gather information & interact with the body directly. This nerve-body interface underlies many diseases.
How to treat chronic pain by breaking the pain cycle?
Patients with pain often feel that pain causes more pain. Pain is persistent and many treatments that seem at first
How to activate the brain to treat pain?
Pain signals converge in the core of the brainstem where they deeply influence behavior. For checks & balances, the brainstem
Why do some medications cause more headaches: Medication overuse headache
Headache medications taken too regularly can paradoxically cause a new headache, called medication overuse headache (MOH), that is constant, over
Sympathetic blocks for pain
The sympathetic nervous system lets the brain control the organs to maintain overall balance of body systems. In many chronic