Dr. Puja Shah Provided Expert Commentary in HealthCentral Feature

Dr. Puja Shah recently provided expert commentary in a HealthCentral article about the use of cold and hot treatments for pain:

Ice can also be useful after a procedure such as a steroid epidural, which is used to treat people with severe back pain. “Ice will reduce the inflammation and decrease post-procedural pain and discomfort,” says Puja Shah, M.D., an interventional pain management specialist and anesthesiologist in private practice at DISC Sports & Spine Center in Newport Beach, CA. She typically advises patients to apply ice on and off for about 24 hours after their procedure.

Dr. Puja Shah in HealthCentral

Read her full article here.

By discmdgroup / May 27, 2021
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