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Dr. Ming Kao

Pain physician & PhD statistician

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January 26, 2019 Frameworks of pain

Pain medicine

The medical specialty of Pain treats chronic pain using interventions & interdisciplinary care.

January 22, 2019 Centralized pain / Fibromyalgia

How to best treat fibromyalgia

Patients with fibromyalgia experience chronic, diffuse pain across the body, due to exquisitely sensitivity of the brain & spinal cord

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January 19, 2019 Gentle pain treatments

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

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January 12, 2019 Back Pain

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

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January 6, 2019 Back Pain

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.

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December 22, 2018 Centralized pain / Frameworks of pain / Gentle pain treatments / Headache & migraines / Neuromodulation / Neuropathy

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.

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November 30, 2018 Frameworks of pain

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

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November 15, 2018 Centralized pain / Frameworks of pain / Gentle pain treatments / Neuroscience

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

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October 28, 2018 Headache & migraines

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

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October 21, 2018 Sympathetic & CRPS

Sympathetic blocks for pain

The sympathetic nervous system lets the brain control the organs to maintain overall balance of body systems. In many chronic

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Dr. Ming Kao is a Harvard-trained computational biologist and a double board-certified Pain Medicine as well as Rehabilitation physician. He is the Clinic Chief at Stanford Pain.

Opinions are Dr. Kao’s only, and are not medical advice. Dr. Kao receives no industry support.

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