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Second video in our series about pain management during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
(Full Presentation) Top 5 Things Pain Patients Need To Know During The Coronavirus Pandemic
View the full presentation of the top 5 things pain patients need to know during the coronavirus pandemic
Top 5 Things Pain Patients Need To Know During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Facebook Live Event - Tomorrow March 27, 2pm EST with Q&A
Coronavirus Update
Could pain patients be turned away at major hospitals? As many of you know all of the major hospitals here are cancelling elective procedures for the next few weeks, and some are even cancelling unessential clinics. We're greatly concerned by this because it could result in pain patients having nowhere to turn for care while COVID 19 runs its course. We're here for you! We want everyone in need to know they can turn to us for care while waiting for their regular doctor to reopen. We are open and all care is administered internally...not at a hospital or outside facility. Our hope is we're able to help those patients that have been turned away and are being told to hang on.
Dr. Corey Hunter quoted Business Insider article about Neuromodulation
Amid the opioid-addiction epidemic, patients and doctors are hunting for new ways to treat pain. One promising alternative is a 50-year-old treatment that uses small bursts of electricity to fight pain without drugs.
Dr. Hunter at the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) 22nd Annual Meeting
NANS 2019 was an extremely exciting meeting. The future is bright for pain management has newer and better technologies for treating chronic pain continue to be created to give doctor improved tools to offer to our patients and these innovations were all showcased at this year's meeting. Much of the innovation in the field seems to be centered on finding different and unique ways to manipulate the nervous system to respond in different ways to meet a given need - whether it be Parkinson's Disease, incontinence, tremors, movement disorders, pelvic pain, amputee pain, headaches or neuropathic foot pain. One of the highlights from the conference was something called "closed loop stimulation" by Saluda. This is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery that allows doctors to communicate with the spinal cord and literally see what it is "saying" to the brain...its basically like an EKG…
Dr. Hunter has Article Published on the RSDSA Website on DRG Stimulation
The RSDSA is the largest support group for CRPS/RSD in the United States. On April 19th, 2016, they published an article written by Dr. Hunter on the new DRG Stimulation Device by St. Jude Medical. Read the article Currently, the only device capable of DRG Stimulation is called the Axium™ which is available exclusively through St. Jude Medical™.
The Truth About Laser Spine Surgery
Laser spine surgery can be summed up in one word – hoax. There is a perception by the general public that lasers are modern or even futuristic. Dating back to the 1960’s people were obsessed with lasers. Whether it be Auric Goldfinger using it as a hi-tech weapon to try and kill James Bond in 1964 or Val Kilmer designing a prototype for the military in 1985 – the American public has viewed lasers as the penultimate in science and technology. It would only seem natural that if one were to “apply” lasers to medicine, the public would find that application equally as futuristic, regardless of whether that use was real or just more movie special effects. Dr. Theodore H. Mainan, the researcher who first constructed the optical laser in 1960, said it was “the solution in search of a…
Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) Spinal Cord Stimulation Comes to NYC
The Ainsworth Institute is one of just 26 sites in the nation selected to start performing the cutting-edge technology! DRG Stimulation is a variation of traditional spinal cord stimulation. The difference is that the leads are a fraction of the size and are placed directly over the individual nerves of the spine, more specifically, the small structures that house the neurons themselves - the Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG). The ACCURATE study (an FDA-approved clinical trial performed by leading pain physicians in the United States) was completed in 2015 and the results were presented at the North American Neuromodulation Society meeting in the same year. The results were impressive to say the least! It showed DRG was superior in almost way to traditional stimulation with better success rates and better overall pain relief. Dr. Hunter has been selected as one of the…
Can a Sea Snail Venom Save America from Prescription Drug Abuse?
As of 2014, pain relievers are the 2nd most commonly abused drugs in the United States with 4.3 million Americans using them for nonmedical reasons.[1] The number of those using pain relievers for nonmedical reasons has remained relatively unchanged from 2002 to 2014, however the number of deaths from prescription drugs, namely opioids, is up 3-fold since 2001.[2] At a time where opioids appear to be causing more problems than they solve, the medical profession is in desperate need of something new. Enter ziconotide. This unique medication is created from a toxin naturally made by the Cone snail (a ω-conotoxin peptide).[3] The molecule is a calcium channel blocker that works by infused into the cerebrospinal fluid to inhibit the release of glutamate, CGRP and substance P in the brain and spinal cord to provide pain relief [4],[5]; the best part…