Steven A. King, MD, MS

May 23, 2012

Medication overuse headache can result from overuse of any drug to abort acute headache. Discontinuation is the only effective treatment and is difficult.

April 03, 2012

March 15, 2012

March 09, 2012

February 29, 2012

Given that pain following surgery is predictable, one might assume we know a lot about optimal analgesia and management. A meta-analysis of Cochrane Reviews, however, reveals that we still have a lot to learn. Read more, here.

February 24, 2012

There is an old saying in real estate that the 3 most important features about a property for sale are “location, location, and location.” In medicine, an equivalent aphorism for the best way to avoid legal problems is “document, document, and document.”

February 14, 2012

February 02, 2012

There is no doubt that because the number of cases of diabetes is rapidly growing in this country, so is the number of patients with diabetic neuropathic pain. Thus any new recommendations for improving treatment of DNP are welcome. However. . .

January 11, 2012

As technological advances in medicine have progressed from the measurement of temperature to the ability to test for genetic factors that can predispose to disease, physicians have sought objective measures for their patient’s problems. When it comes to pain, however-the most common complaint that drives patients to see doctors-we still rely on the subjective report of the individual patient as the primary measure.

November 04, 2011

Antidepressants are often referred to as “adjuvant analgesics.” Although the name suggests that these agents don’t provide direct pain relief in the same way as opioids or NSAIDs, it is well established that antidepressants provide excellent analgesia for many pain conditions.