Dr. Loran Fred Pilling
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
4224 Glencrest Rd Minneapolis MN, 55416About
Dr. Loran Pilling practices Pain Medicine in Minneapolis, 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. Pilling 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
University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 1956
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- When the patient's problem is all in his head.
- Electroshock therapy of a depressed patient with complete heart block.
- Psychologic characteristics of psychiatric patients having pain as a presenting symptom.
- Emotional aspects of prosthodontic patients.
- An intensive-therapy day clinic for out-of-town patients with neurotic and psychosomatic problems.
- Managing the problem patient.
- The psychologic aspects of proctalgia fugax.
- Clinical disturbances of sleep.
- Chronic pain: the ultimate stress.
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