Dr. Melanie Marie Novak MD
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
3770 Glenkerry Ct Portage MI, 49024About
Dr. Melanie Novak practices Pain Medicine in Portage, 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. Novak 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
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1986
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Spondylolisthesis
- Neuropathy
- Fibromyalgia
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Herniated Disc
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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