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Dr. Timothy R Deer MD
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
400 Court St Suite 100 Charleston WV, 25301About
Dr. Timothy Deer practices Pain Medicine in Charleston, WV. 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. Deer 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
Wv Univ Sch of Med, Morgantown Wv 1990
West Virginia University School of Medicine 1990
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Stability, compatibility, and safety of intrathecal bupivacaine administered chronically via an implantable delivery system.
- Current and future trends in spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain.
- Role of adhesiolysis in the management of chronic spinal pain: a systematic review of effectiveness and complications.
- A prospective analysis of intrathecal granuloma in chronic pain patients: a review of the literature and report of a surveillance study.
- Spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of angina and peripheral vascular disease.
- Intrathecal ziconotide and opioid combination therapy for noncancer pain: an observational study.
- Safety and efficacy of intrathecal ziconotide in the management of severe chronic pain.
- New image-guided ultra-minimally invasive lumbar decompression method: the mild procedure.
- Intracranial neurostimulation for pain control: a review.
- A critical time for practice change in the pain treatment continuum: we need to reconsider the role of pumps in the patient care algorithm.
- Percutaneous adhesiolysis in the management of chronic low back pain in post lumbar surgery syndrome and spinal stenosis: a systematic review.
- Tissue distribution of clonidine following intraforaminal implantation of biodegradable pellets: potential alternative to epidural steroid for radiculopathy.
- Polyanalgesic Consensus Conference 2012.
- Systematic safety review and meta-analysis of procedural experience using percutaneous access to treat symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis.
- A prospective study of dorsal root ganglion stimulation for the relief of chronic pain.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Osteoarthritis
- Pinched Nerve
- Pain
- Tendonitis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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Nearby Providers
- Alyson Engle400 Court St Charleston WV 25301
- Dr. Richard G Bowman MD400 Court St Charleston WV 25301
- Dr. Christopher K Kim MD400 Court St Charleston WV 25301
- Dr. Warren Lee Grace M.D.400 Court St Charleston WV 25301
- Ryan Budwany MD400 COURT ST STE 100 CHARLESTON WV 25301
Nearest Hospitals
ST FRANCIS HOSPITALl
333 LAIDLEY ST CHARLESTON WV 25301CHARLESTON SURGICAL HOSPITALl
1306 KANAWHA BOULEVARD EAST CHARLESTON WV 25301