Dr. Eric Rolf Ratner M.D.
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
8019 Frankford Ave Suite A Philadelphia PA, 19136Rating
3/5
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Dr. Eric Ratner practices Pain Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. 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. Ratner 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
Penn State Medicine
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine 1989
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA- Pain Medicine
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Longitudinal study of psychotropic drug use by elderly nursing home residents.
- Evaluation of neuroleptic drug use by nursing home elderly under proposed Medicare and Medicaid regulations.
- Summaries for patients. End-of-Life Planning intervention and the Completion of Advance Directives in homeless persons.
- Resolution of the multiple inert gas method for estimating VA/Q maldistribution.
- Influenza and pneumococcal immunization in medical clinics, 1978-1980.
- Percutaneous lumbar sympathetic plexus catheter placement for short- and long-term pain relief: CT technique and results.
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Osteoarthritis
- Neck Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Pain
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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