Dr. Robert P Cowan M.D.
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
3700 W Highway 89A Sedona AZ, 86336About
Dr. Robert Cowan practices Pain Medicine in Stanford, CA. 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. Cowan 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 Southern Ca Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1986
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prostaglandin D synthase isoforms from cerebrospinal fluid vary with brain pathology.
- Cerebrospinal fluid sodium increases in migraine.
- The morphology and biochemistry of nanostructures provide evidence for synthesis
- Capillary endothelial Na(+), K(+), ATPase transporter homeostasis and a new theory for migraine pathophysiology.
- Phospholipase C activity increases in cerebrospinal fluid from migraineurs in proportion to the number of comorbid conditions: a case-control study.
- CAM in the real world: you may practice evidence-based medicine, but your patients don't.
- Prevalence of migraine headache and its weight on neurological burden in Africa: a 43-year systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based studies.
- Comparison of parenteral treatments of acute primary headache in a large academic emergency department cohort.
- What is the evidence for the use of corticosteroids in migraine?
- The place of corticosteroids in migraine attack management: A 65-year systematic review with pooled analysis and critical appraisal.
- Spontaneous extracranial hemorrhagic phenomena in primary headache disorders: A systematic review of published cases.
- The impact of regular lifestyle behavior in migraine: a prevalence case-referent study.
- Severe Headache or Migraine History is Inversely Correlated With Dietary Sodium Intake: NHANES 1999-2004.
- Immunohistochemical localization of human immunodeficiency viral antigens in formalin-fixed spinal cords with AIDS myelopathy.
- Severe Headache or Migraine History Is Inversely Correlated With Dietary Sodium Intake: NHANES 1999-2004: A Response.
Dr. Robert P Cowan M.D.'s Practice location
Practice At 300 Pasteur Dr
300 Pasteur Dr -Stanford, CA 94305Get Direction
Practice At 3700 W Highway 89A
3700 W Highway 89A -Sedona, AZ 86336Get Direction
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