Dr. Jose J Rivera M.D.
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
6333 54th Ave N Saint Petersburg FL, 33709Rating
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Dr. Jose Rivera practices Pain Medicine in Saint Petersburg, FL. 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. Rivera 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.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- [ISRCTN 16558617] A randomized, controlled trial of spinal endoscopic adhesiolysis in chronic refractory low back and lower extremity pain.
- Reliability of psychological evaluation in chronic pain in an interventional pain management setting.
- Evaluation of the effect of sedation as a confounding factor in the diagnostic validity of lumbar facet joint pain: a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled evaluation.
- One day lumbar epidural adhesiolysis and hypertonic saline neurolysis in treatment of chronic low back pain: a randomized, double-blind trial.
- Spinal endoscopic adhesiolysis in the management of chronic low back pain: a preliminary report of a randomized, double-blind trial.
- Effectiveness of caudal epidural injections in discogram positive and negative chronic low back pain.
- Effectiveness of clinical guidelines in interventional pain management.
- A structural model of the Staphylococcus aureus ClfA-fibrinogen interaction opens new avenues for the design of anti-staphylococcal therapeutics.
- An engineered alpha1 integrin-binding collagenous sequence.
- Augmenting the articular cartilage-implant interface: Functionalizing with a collagen adhesion protein.
- A multifunctional streptococcal collagen-mimetic protein coating prevents bacterial adhesion and promotes osteoid formation on titanium.
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