“IT CAN’T HURT THAT MUCH…”

After my 13 years of medical training, early in the early 1990’s I was often asked by physician colleagues, “I don’t get it, what exactly is a ‘pain doctor’?”   Followed by, “why would you want to specialize in that!?”    Those questions used to confound me.  But indeed, “pain management” was a new specialty. At that…

21st CENTURY METHODS OF TREATING CHRONIC PAIN

“They can send a man to the moon, but they can’t……”   The boomer equivalent aphorism for today’s younger generations refrains of “there’s got to be a hack for this!”   Unfortunately, most chronic pain problems are not “curable.”  For that matter, most medical ailments humans suffer from are rarely “curable.”  The good news is…