Preferred Pain Center in Arizona recently added comprehensive pain management including massage therapy, manipulation under anesthesia and medication management, according to a news release.
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The Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology has outlined five steps for physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers to transition to an electronic health record platform if they have not started already.
Five pain management physicians discuss what procedures have been the most beneficial for patients in their practice in 2011.
Four pharmaceutical companies are in the final stages of development for a new painkiller that is 10 times stronger than Vicodin and contains a pure version of hydrocodone, and experts are worried it could lead to increased abuse, according to…
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University examined curriculum of North American medical schools and found pain education is "limited, variable and often fragmentary," according to findings published in The Journal of Pain.
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Here are five best practices for pain management practices.
Ultrasound guided injections can position pain practices with several clinical and business advantages, says Neil Chatterjee, MD, a pain physician with Virginia Spine Institute in Reston, Virginia. "An ultrasound is a strategic addition to many practices, as it can improve…
David Blumenthal, MD, former head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, recently wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that the success of the HITECH Act and other health IT initiatives seem "inevitable, in…
James Andrews, MD, founder of Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Fla., will perform knee surgery on Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Anquan Boldin, according to a USA Today report.
The Cincinnati Reds Double-A farm system team, the Pensacola (Fla.) Blue Wahoos, recently announced the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine as its official medical provider, according to a team news release.