Not exact matches
Even the imaging tests that doctors use to make the case for back surgery, including MRI, X-rays, and CT scans, are not very good at pinpointing the cause
of pain, comments Jerome Groopman,
chief of experimental
medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and author
of How Doctors Think.
Jiang collaborated with Ru - Rong Ji, Ph.D., professor
of anesthesiology and neurobiology and
chief of pain research in Duke University School
of Medicine's Department
of Anesthesiology.
No matter what your source
of pain, the first step is to get an accurate diagnosis and then set up an early intervention strategy with your doctor, says Neil Kirschen, MD, president
of the American Association
of Orthopedic
Medicine and
chief of pain management at South Nassau Community Hospital in New York.
«This is at some level getting at the placebo response,» says Sean Mackey, MD,
chief of the
pain management division at Stanford University School
of Medicine, in Palo Alto, Calif. «I don't want to suggest that we view acupuncture as a kind
of voodoo magic.