6 CME credits for each monograph are available for MDs and DOs.
Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies, by Alex Vasquez, ND, DC, 135 pages
· These strategies identify and address the underlying dysfunctions that cause and perpetuate pain; this approach is contrasted to drugs, which provide temporary relief at a high cost (both financially and in terms of side effects)
· Gives detailed descriptions of assessments and treatments used in a functional medicine approach to pain, with special attention to clinical studies that support each
· Covers a wide range of therapies, including nutritional and dietary approaches, botanical medicines, and spinal manipulation
· Outlines conventional and functional medicine approaches to 4 conditions: migraine, low back pain, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia, with case studies of how Alex Vasquez has treated each condition
REVIEWS:
“This monograph is an excellent and elaborate reminder to practitioners that musculoskeletal pain can be far more complicated than it often first appears. Dr. Vasquez has done a masterful job in weaving together the functional medicine approach to these types of disorders, providing an astute combination of clinical insights, references to evidence-based literature, reviews of best practices in manual medicine and nutrition, and practical approaches.” - David Wickes, DC, Executive Vice President of Western States Chiropractic College
“Research-based knowledge for the most effective way to treat disease from a functional medicine perspective is right here-at your fingertips. You won’t have to look further. This work is to be applauded for its thoroughness.” - Michael W. Loes, MD, Director of the Arizona Pain Institute and Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine
“This review with original contributions on pain and inflammation is well-paced and relentlessly cogent. This meticulous and exhaustively referenced monograph is complete, and one feels no need to g to another source.” - Ron D’Agostino, DO, Family physician in integrative practice for more than 25 years, L’Anse, MI
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