Dr. Tim Joseph Lamer M.D.
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Tim Lamer practices Pain Medicine in Rochester, MN. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Lamer serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
New Jersey College of Dentistry 1983
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Pain Medicine
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lumbar spine pain originating from vertebral osteophytes.
- Treatment of central post-stroke pain with oral ketamine.
- Interscalene blocks for chronic upper extremity pain.
- Minimally invasive procedures for disorders of the lumbar spine.
- Complications of lumbar facet radiofrequency denervation.
- Ear pain due to cervical spine arthritis: treatment with cervical facet injection.
- Painful medial branch neuroma treated with minimally invasive medial branch neurectomy.
- Injection of the facetectomy remnant in the evaluation and treatment of postsurgical back pain: case reports.
- Management of postoperative pain: review of current techniques and methods.
- Treatment of acute herpetic neuralgia. A case report and review of the literature.
- Incidence of neuropathic pain after radiofrequency denervation of the third occipital nerve.
- Incidence of clinically significant percutaneous spinal cord stimulator lead migration.
- Safety of lumbar spine radiofrequency procedures in the presence of posterior pedicle screws: technical report of a cadaver study.
- Opioid-induced hyperalgesia in community-dwelling adults with chronic pain.
- Serum Triamcinolone Levels Following Interlaminar Epidural Injection.
Treatments
- Spine Problems, Pain, Cancer
- Chronic Pain
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Neuropathy
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Pain
Professional Memberships
- Staff STAFF PRV/MAYO MEDICAL CENTER/ROCHESTER, MN
- Member Minnesota Medical Association/Zumbro Valley
Experience & Accolades
- Member2013Editor, Neuromodulation Section, Pain Medicine -Current
- Member Scientific Review and Guidelines Committee -- Chair
- Member2010 American Academy of Pain Medicine -current
- Member Evidence Based Guideline Committee -- member
- Member2009 North American Spine Society -current
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