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Anesthesiology in Minnesota

Specialty Groups

Pain Medicine

The Division of Pain Medicine delivers a multidisciplinary, team-based approach to the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of painful disorders. The physician staff includes pain experts from Anesthesiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Neurology, and Psychiatry and Psychology. These specialists offer advanced therapies, including drug treatment, pain rehabilitation and management, injection therapies, and implants to address complex and multidimensional pain syndromes.

Services include:

Acupuncture
Behavioral pain therapies
Chemical denervation
Chronic pain management
Counseling
Epidural therapies
Implanted pumps

Joint injections
Medication management
Nerve blocks
Physical therapy
Radiofrequency ablation
Spinal stimulation

Diseases and Treatments

Problems treated include:

Abdominal pain
Arthritis
Cancer or cancer treatment-related pain
Complex regional pain syndromes (reflex sympathetic dystrophy; causalgia)
Disc disease
Facet pain syndrome
Myofascial pain syndromes

Peripheral neuropathy
Post-herpetic neuralgia
Radiculopathy
Sacroiliac pain syndromes
Spinal pain
Spinal stenosis
Sports medicine
Work injury

List of Doctors

Anesthesiology/Pain Medicine

Neurology

James C. Watson, M.D.

PM&R

Psychiatry/Psychology

Research

Acupunture for fibromyalgia pain
Gabapentin for chemotherapy-induced neuralgia
Post-herpetic neuralgia treated with epidural corticosteroids
Spinal cord stimulation for intractable angina

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