Dr. Joel R. Saper, M.D.
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
3120 Professional Dr Ann Arbor MI, 48104Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Joel Saper practices Pain Medicine in Ann Arbor, MI. 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. Saper 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
Univ of Il Coll of Med, Chicago Il 1969
University of Illinois College of Medicine 1969
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Medicolegal issues: headache.
- Headache disorders.
- Behavioral self-management in an inpatient headache treatment unit: increasing adherence and relationship to changes in affective distress.
- Intranasal civamide for the acute treatment of migraine headache.
- The use of rizatriptan in the treatment of acute, multiple migraine attacks.
- Borderline personality, opioids, and naltrexone.
- Posttraumatic headache: a neurobehavioral disorder.
- Geriatric headache. How to make the diagnosis and manage the pain.
- Raised intracranial pressure. Diagnosis and management.
- Comparative study of a combination of isometheptene mucate, dichloralphenazone
- Nefazodone for chronic daily headache prophylaxis: an open-label study.
- What matters is not the differences between triptans, but the differences between patients.
- Intranasal civamide for the treatment of episodic cluster headaches.
- Chronic daily headache: a clinician's perspective.
- Chronic headache: New advances in treatment strategies.
Treatments
- Headaches
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Neuropathy
- Neck Pain
- Pain
- Migraine
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