Vital Pain Management

02/07/2024

At Vital Pain Management, our treatment approach is multidisciplinary based on a foundation of medications, physical medicine, chronic pain management, IV Ketamine with coaching, and injection therapy including PRP and s...

08/19/2021

Vital Pain Management's very own Dr. Margaret Salmon is well known in the international field of Pain Management and Regional Anesthesia. She is highly published in the past decade, and her most recent article has been published in the Bristish Medical Journals, edition of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine this April 2021. The article is titled Ultrasound-guided Regional Anesthesia, and it is an important contribution not only to Pain Management, but also Anesthesia Management in health-challenged parts of the world.

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Background Acute pain management in resource-poor countries remains a challenge. Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia is a cost-effective way of delivering analgesia in these settings. However, for financial and logistical reasons, educational workshops are inaccessible to many physicians in these....

02/22/2021

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis especially affecting weight-bearing joints such as the back, hips and knees. Over 30 million Americans suffer from the wear-and-tear arthritis. Management of O...

01/02/2021

For many people suffering debilitating knee pain, the option of knee replacement may seem like the answer. This is the final option, and it is best delayed as much as possible. Often this is done with physical therapy ...

10/06/2020

The growing problems in Addiction has now having the FDA look at an old class of drugs, benzodiazepines. FDA announced that manufacturers of benzodiazepines will be required to update their boxed warning to list the ri...

09/12/2020

ESWT, EPAT, Shockwave Therapy, Acoustic Therapy, many names for this regenerative medicince technique used in managing and treating a variety of muscle and tendon and joint injuries in the body. We often combine this with other physical therapy modalities and injection therapy. Call us at 925-464-1151, to see how it can benefit you.

Dr Duggan explains calf injuries and how soft tissue heals then uses EPAT to help repair the muscle.

07/26/2020

VPM welcomes the addition of Dr Stacie Daniels, MD, as our neurology consultant. She previously served in the United States Navy as a Neurologist. Afterwards, she did a Fellowship at UCSF in Movement Disorders. Before joining the medical group, she had previously worked at Kaiser. Besides Chronic Pain and Neuropathy, Dr. Daniels has interests in Headaches and Migraines, Epilepsy, and Movement Disorders.

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03/13/2020

Knowing the Knee Joint anatomy is the first place in understanding your knee pain pain. The knee joint function is to improve the effectiveness of walking and running by allowing our legs to hinge in the middle. It move...