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Who is a #pain #physician? Are there enough of us? What tools are emerging to help us help these patients?
Board Certified Pain Medicine physicians come from a myriad of core primary specialties, including anesthesiology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, neurology, and psychiatry. Doctors who have completed years of residency training in one of these specialties chooses to complete a Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship (what is a pain fellowship?). The specialty of Pain Medicine is growing,…
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#blastfromthepast
Last week I did what I do all the time – got on a flight to a Medtronic faculty summit. I had seen that there was a #keynote speaker on the agenda, but it was not disclosed who it would be. When I walked into the hotel and saw my old friend and residency neighbor…
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Yoga was critical for my postoperative recovery and ongoing #wellness #spinehealth and #longevity. Now I’m back in practice, call for an appointment!
Up until my residency, I had always been playing sports regularly and as a resident and fellow my primary method of transport was bicycle. I was super healthy just by my lifestyle. Fast forward to my first attending job and I find myself driving hours a day, and still do at the new practice. Over…
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Hot off the Press: Multiphase Spinal Cord Stimulation in Participants with Chronic Back or Leg Pain: Results of the BENEFIT02 Randomized Clinical Trial #multiphase #research #clinicalevidence #RCT
I have had the privilege of working with some incredible research mentors over my career. Chief among them are some of my co-authors on this recent publication reporting results from the Biotronik BENEFIT-02 Study. Free Full-text Link to Journal Article We began the BENEFIT-02 journey in 2018 with the goal of understanding patients response to…
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#relaxation is who you are. #tension is who you think you should be. -Buddhist saying
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Chronic Pain 🔄 Altered Stress Response. Is pain the chicken or the egg?🥚🐣🐓 #chronicpain #autonomic #cortisol #stress #intolerance #biology #epigenetics #genetics
This morning I read with interest this recent article in the Journal of Clinical Medicine surrounding the links between altered stress response, abnormalities in the HPA axis, and the chronic pain phenotype. Everyone knows that exposure to sunlight can give you a change in your body. It could cause a tan, a burn, and/or a…
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Netflix’s new show #Painkiller talks about the opioid crisis. How can we move forward to decouple Pain Care from Pain Medication?
Painkiller is a new show on Netflix that explores the evils of marketing highly addictive substances. Matthew Broderick plays a Sackler, the scion of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, whose deployment of sales reps to sell Oxycontin as a nonaddictive painkiller that provided patients with the relief tolerance, dependence, and addiction they rightfully wrongfully deserved. An accumulation of…
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Looking forward to reading the recently published series of the papers related to the Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC😉). We have been working on integrating imaging and PROs together at Celeri Health since 2017. Glad to see validation coming from BACPAC in 2023. #backpain #datacapture #realworldoutcomes #datascience #neuromodulation
Super interested to see how the standardization of integrating a holistic dataset with imaging changes how we deploy treatments. Are most pain therapies delivered based on quantitative or qualitative selection criteria? At Celeri Health we have been assembling an incredibly powerful integrated dataset with this in mind. Excited to see that BACPAC is aligned with…
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Being a pain doc and undergoing cervical spine surgery myself – talk about role reversal… #spine #neck #surgery #discherniation
My neck intermittently bothered me over the years, but I was always able to get relief with conservative treatments, including epidural steroid injections, sleeping on a rolled up towel, and taking anti-inflammatories. Just days after my 40th birthday, it became apparent that the most recent flare of neck pain was not just going to get…
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Publish & Present
From concept to execution to sharing your work on the podium and in a peer-reviewed journal – this is the well-worn path of the physician-scientist. Over the years I have had countless opportunities to share my work with others through invited lectures, published manuscripts, and podium presentations.