The Health and Human Services (HHS) Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force (Task Force) concluded their yearlong session with a final meeting last Friday prior to submitting their final report to Congress. ...
Pain is all around us, the extensive 2018 Gallup poll measuring global emotion levels found. But it is not distributed evenly. The massive survey collected data from more than 151,000 interviews with adults in more than 140 countries. That’s 71.5 percent of all countries on...
Migraine headaches are a debilitating condition that is not life-threatening but can result in hours of extreme pain for sufferers. Migraines can last from four to 72 hours and are frequently accompanied by other distressing symptoms. These include heightened sensitivity to light, smells and touch,...
If you are suffering from pain and inflammation caused due to a disc issues, sciatica, or spinal stenosis, your doctor can recommend either a selective nerve root block or epidural steroid injection to relieve your pain.
With a recent Boston PainCare study out that illustrates the effects of high frequency (10 kHz) nerve stimulation related to lower back pain, we are (again) made aware of the growing uses for this option for long-term pain management....
John V. Prunskis, M.D. FIPP Medical Director of the Illinois Pain Institute and Advisor/ Member Health and Human Services (HHS) Best Practices Pain Task Force, Washington D.C. attended First Lady Melania Trump’s White House Easter Egg Festivities on April 22, 2019 with his nieces and...
An intrathecal pain pump is a device that delivers medications directly to the spinal cord, into the intrathecal space. Medications placed in this space produce powerful and faster pain relief than medications taken as pills, especially in conditions that have failed to improve with other treatments or with surgery....
The State of Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved Barrington Pain and Spine Institute’s (BPSI) Certificate of Need application to add orthopedic and podiatric surgery services to its current offerings in the specialties of Interventional Pain Management and Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. The...
Hinsdale, IL October 19, 2018- John Prunskis M.D., CEO/ Medical Director of the Illinois Pain Institute along with US Surgeon General Jerome Adams M.D. and Congressman Peter Roskam met with over 50 Chicagoland leaders in healthcare, law enforcement and first responders to answer questions and...
More than 200,000 Americans died from overdoses related to prescription opioids between 1999 and 2016. In a recently published article for Morning Consult, John V. Prunskis, MD, FIPP, co-founder and medical director of the Illinois Pain Institute, wrote about alternative ways to treat...