Dr. Schwartz was guest speaker at Comprehensive Pain Specialists headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee last week. His lecture topics included RSD, CRPS, Fibromyalgia, Weather Sensitive Pain, Medical Thermology and Regenerative Medicine. Learn more about these topics at piedmontpmr.com.
Dr. Schwartz is the Medical Director of the St. Francis Bon Secours Hospital Fibromyalgia Restorative Care Program. He is also the Medical Director of the South Carolina Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Fibromyalgia Support Group, which he founded in 1990.
Dr. Schwartz has numerous publications and lectured extensively on both Fibromyalgia and RSD/CRPS. His practice has special emphasis on patients with complex, chronic pain that have weather sensitive aspect to their symptoms.
He has a unique approach that reduces Total Load, the total number of things that do not allow someone to be well, and addresses autonomic dysfunction (eye, bowel, bladder, heart, skin, and movement disorders) associated with these conditions.
It is surprising how many people who suffer from headaches are told the only choice they have is to take migraine medication. While medication for migraine clearly can help headache sufferers since most migraines are mixed headaches (due to several causes) treatment directed toward fixing the root of each type of headache can both reduce the need for medication and improve quality of life. Learn more at piedmontpmr.com.
