Power Of Pain Management: How Interventional Pain Specialists Treat Injured Patients

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This Episode features double-board certified anesthesiology pain specialist Doctor V. K. Puppala, MD, founder and medical director of Comprehensive Spine & Pain based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology by the Medical College of Georgia and named to the Editorial Board of Pain Physician, the Journal of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. Dr. Puppala previously served on the Board of Directors of both the Medical Association of Georgia and the Georgia Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and is also the founder of the Foundation for Pain C.A.R.E. (Charity, Advocacy, Research, Education).
Dr. Puppala began his commitment to medicine and scientific research as a teenager when he began conducting research in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center in his spare time while attending the world-renowned Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, founded by Nobel laureate Dr. Leon Lederman. He graduated from the University of Illinois with honors in less than twelve months and earned his medical degree from the nationally top-ranked Washington University School of Medicine.
Dr. Puppala’s interest in pain medicine was sparked when he received a student grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on the effects of peripheral nerve regeneration with Dr. Susan MacKinnon, who performed the world’s first nerve transplant. Following medical school, he received his training in pain medicine under the tutelage of Dr. Kenneth Candido, an internationally-renowned thought leader who himself trained under Dr. Alon Winnie, who originated many of the interventional techniques used by pain physicians today. While in training, Dr. Puppala presented research at national and international meetings and won the Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists award for the world’s first report of treatment for HIV-related polyneuropathy using spinal cord stimulation.
With his training lineage in pain medicine tracing back to one of the original founders of the specialty, Dr. Puppala founded Comprehensive Spine & Pain in 2016 in order to achieve his goal to TREAT PAIN & TRANSFORM LIVES. He has expertise in the treatment of neckand low back pain, herniated discs, intractable neuropathic pain, joint pain, headaches, myofascial pain syndrome, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS/RSD), and chronic abdominal/pelvic pain with a multi-modal approach. He is exceptionally skilled in fluoroscopic-guided nerve blocks, epidurals, and radiofrequency ablation. He is particularly passionate about the use of spinal cord stimulation to treat intractable neuropathic pain and enjoys re-evaluating patients who have already seen other pain specialists without proper treatment from conventional epidural injection management.
Dr. Puppala treats all of his patients with compassion, empathy, respect, and concern regardless of their background or circumstances. He is deeply committed to his patients and achieves superior pain treatment outcomes using a holistic multidisciplinary approach by integrating interventional techniques, medication management, and functional restoration within a comprehensive biopsychosocial feedback model. His goal is to enable his patients to regain a life free of suffering while also minimizing the need for chronic opioid dependence.
In his free time, Dr. Puppala enjoys music and art, stays active in professional networking, volunteers at an animal shelter, and contributes to a variety of philanthropic causes.
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