Dr. James Choo’s recent opinion piece appeared in the February 2017 edition of Pain Medicine News. The commentary was entitled, “Multidisciplinary Pain Treatment in the World of Opioid Guidelines”. Below is an excerpt from the piece: "Recent opioid treatment guidelines from the CDC and states further reinforce the implicit message—to much of the public and medical [...]
Pain Consultants of East Tennessee partnered with the Metro Drug Coalition to present a Town Hall event, entitled "What is Pain Management?" on Thursday, January 26th at the Holiday Inn Cedar Bluff. The event was streamed live by WVLT Local 8 Now, Knoxville's CBS affiliate. Panelists included: Karen Pershing, Executive Director of the Metro Drug [...]
Pain Consultants of East Tennessee's very own James Choo, MD and Ted Jones, PhD recently collaborated to publish a research piece entitled "The Impact of Virtual Reality on Chronic Pain" in the PLOS One journal. PCET has been utilizing virtual reality software for two years and continues to pioneer in this area of pain management. [...]
Here at PCET we are finding that more and more people are coming to us asking for ways to help with pain that don’t involve being prescribed opioids (narcotics). Many people are finding in this time when so many doctors don’t want to prescribe opioids and when being on opioids involves pill counts, drug screens [...]
Dr. James Choo was recently invited to speak to the 2016 Spring Worker’s Compensation Conference, which was organized by Outpatient Diagnostic Center of Knoxville. Choo presented on non-opioid management for the chronic pain patient. Choo continues to educate other health care practitioners and the community at-large about the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to treating chronic pain. [...]
