Dr. James Choo, medical director of Pain Consultants of East Tennessee, testified in front of the Tennessee General Assembly's Ad Hoc Taskforce on Opioid Abuse on March 16, 2017. Watch the full video below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIgNXIyvuGI&t=12s
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 is proud to welcome Martha J. Smith, MD to its team! Dr. Smith graduated from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry in 1998. She went on to earn her Medical Doctor degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis [...]
by Darren McCoy, FNP-BC, CPE In late June, a report in Bloomberg Businessweek highlighted the work of researchers at Centrexion, whose work includes trying to develop non-opioid analgesics based on capsaicin (the "hot" chemical in pepper plants). While the focus of the Bloomberg article was on the potential value of such non-opioid treatments, the article also brought [...]
Ted Jones, PhD from the Behavioral Medicine Institute at Pain Consultants of East Tennessee, recently provided his thoughts about the use of virtual reality software to combat chronic pain in a MedScape.com article entitled "Virtual Reality "Ventures Into Real World of Chronic Pain". Here is a portion of that article: "Virtual reality (VR), already shown to [...]
