Steven Richeimer, M.D. is a renowned specialist on issues related to chronic pain. He is the chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at the University of Southern California. He has written or co-written a large number of scientific articles about pain medicine. He has published an instructive book and guide for pain patients. Dr. Richeimer has given numerous lectures to medical and lay audiences throughout the U.S. Dr. Richeimer is the Director of the Online Certificate & Master’s Degree in Pain Medicine programs at USC.
MD: U.C. San Francisco, School of Medicine
BA: Stanford University, Program in Human Biology
Triple Board Certification in the fields of pain management, anesthesiology, and psychiatry
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Often patients with headaches are concerned that they might have a tumor or some other problem in their brain that is causing the headaches. Doctors will judge whether or not this is necessary based on...
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For patients who have migraines fairly often (let’s say: once a week – often in our field, we’ll look at whether or not they have 4 days a month of significant migraines that really impact...
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Sometimes the patient may need surgery. They may need surgery to make room for nerves to remove a herniated disc, to fuse a segment that’s unstable. There’s a variety, different surgeries that might be needed...
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So you can get nerve impingements from discs. You can get nerve irritation from the chemicals in the disc. You can have the bony structures start to get arthritic over time. And just like knuckles...
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Sometimes muscle problems can be prolonged and then we have to engage the patient in physical therapy. Sometimes we support that physical therapy with injections into the muscles to force the muscles to relax and...
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Okay, so neck and back pain are some of the most common problems that humans deal with. That and headaches are the most common complaints that patients bring to their doctors. There are so many...
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In really difficult cases, we have to kind of pull out, if you will, big gun therapies. These might include implanted electrical stimulators. Sometimes we implant the wires into the spine on top of the...
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You can’t pick up a paper these days without at least once a week seeing a headline about the opioid crisis, certainly in America and to some extent throughout the world. We’re finding that opioids,...
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Pain psychology is another very important part of what we do. When patients are stressed, upset about their condition, fearful about their condition, it makes everything much worse. So we have to help patients overcome...
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In addition, we use the kinds of medications that I was referring to earlier; the medicines that have the ability to alter the function of the nervous system, anticonvulsants antidepressants, sometimes medicines that might be...
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