Chronic Back Pain Specialist Gretna LA

Basically we broke new ground in investigating a method that a lot of people have been using for thousands of years to see if it works for an average person with chronic back pain.
James Philip Marra, MD
(504) 391-7580
120 Meadowcrest St Ste 380
Gretna, LA
Specialties
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Gender
Male
Education
Medical School: Tulane Univ Sch Of Med, New Orleans La 70112
Graduation Year: 1964

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Reginald Drew Sanders, MD
(504) 899-1120
2633 Napoleon Ave Ste 530
New Orleans, LA
Specialties
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Gender
Male
Education
Medical School: La State Univ Sch Of Med In New Orleans, New Orleans La 70112
Graduation Year: 1972

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Merlin Robert Wilson
(504) 899-1120
2633 Napoleon Ave
New Orleans, LA
Specialty
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology

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Dr.MADELAINE FELDMAN
(504) 899-1120
2633 Napoleon Ave # 530
New Orleans, LA
Gender
F
Speciality
Rheumatologist
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5.0, out of 5 based on 1, reviews.

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Reginald Sanders
(504) 899-1120
2633 Napoleon Ave
New Orleans, LA
Specialty
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology

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Nirupa Jash Patel
(504) 896-1440
2820 Napoleon Ave
New Orleans, LA
Specialty
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology

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Alfredo Vichot, MD
(504) 897-1342
3525 Prytania St
New Orleans, LA
Specialties
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Gender
Male
Education
Medical School: Univ De Salamanca, Fac De Med, Salamanca, Spain
Graduation Year: 1973

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Alfredo Vichot
(504) 897-7400
3525 Prytania St
New Orleans, LA
Specialty
Rheumatology

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Dr.Alfredo Vichot
(504) 897-7400
3525 Prytania St # 309
New Orleans, LA
Gender
M
Education
Medical School: Univ De Salamanca, Fac De Med, Salamanca
Year of Graduation: 1973
Speciality
Rheumatologist
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Accepting New Patients: Yes
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5.0, out of 5 based on 1, reviews.

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Merlin Robert Wilson Jr, MD
(504) 899-1120
2633 Napoleon Ave Ste 530
New Orleans, LA
Specialties
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Gender
Male
Education
Medical School: La State Univ Sch Of Med In New Orleans, New Orleans La 70112
Graduation Year: 1968

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Chronic Back Pain

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Pain and anger seem to go hand in hand. Clinical research has shown that chronic low-back pain sufferers tend to have high levels of anger and that anger exacerbates the experience of pain. Now an innovative pilot study shows that loving-kindness meditation—a Buddhist technique for fostering love and transforming anger into compassion—can help reverse the cycle.

“Basically we broke new ground in investigating a method that a lot of people have been using for thousands of years to see if it works for an average person with chronic back pain,” says Jim Carson, PhD, of the Duke University Medical Center and the study’s lead author.

The study tested an eight-week loving-kindness program for chronic low-back pain patients, who were randomly assigned to conventional care or the meditation intervention. The patients who used loving-kindness techniques showed significant improvements in their pain and psychological distress levels that correlated to the time spent practicing the meditation on any given day.

“I was somewhat surprised by how people, once they started using the methods, reported changes in their life and relationships,” Carson says. Who knows, showing a little bit of kindness and compassion may be the ultimate form of pain relief.

—Elizabeth Marglin

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