Video Overview:
Things you should understand about chronic pain.
- Your pain processing system can be turned up or turned down like an amplifier. Learn what factors make the system more sensitive, and ways to turn down the volume.
- Secondary sources of pain can worsen suffering and disability. They are treatable, so understanding them is important. Some secondary sources of pain include:
- changes in neuromuscular function.
- change in the fascia and connective tissues of the body
- gut-brain-immune axis changes can increase pain, inflammation, anxiety/depression, and other chronic disease
- hormonal changes
- emotional distress worsens pain, which worsens emotional distress
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Dr Shiller’s Clinical Services
Watch this video to get an overview of Dr Shiller’s integrative approach:
Scroll down past office logistics, for videos that talk about his approach to pain, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, depression/anxiety, and other difficult chronic conditions.
Office Logistics:
Dr Shiller meets with patients in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Gush Etzion as well as by telemedicine. Telemedicine appointments are available for people in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Virginia, and Israel. Other international clients can be seen on a case-by case basis.
He sees patients in the Leumit clinic in Beit Shemesh on Bar Ilan. Contact the clinic directly if you are a Leumit patient. He does not work through the other Kupot or US insurance companies. Patients with private insurance often get reimbursement. Ask in advance for a visit summary.
Access the convenient online scheduler on the homepage here www.drshiller.com, and follow these instructions:
- Click “schedule an appointment” in the upper right corner.
- Follow instructions on the scheduling page.
- If you need more help, contact the office directly.
Direct office contact:
- 1-203-290-1368
- 972-058-789-0369
- office@drshiller.com
See more videos about Dr Shiller’s approach to difficult chronic problems. Click on the relevant link below:
Healing Pain When Drugs and Procedures Don’t Help
Fibromyalgia: Feeling Better and Healing The Roots
Optimal Recovery After Injury, Surgery or Severe Illness
Topics Coming Soon:
- Stress, Depression, and Anxiety
- Osteoarthritis
- Fatigue and Post-Covid Syndrome
- Persistent Postoperative pain
- Autoimmune Disease
How to Find Your Way Home from Debilitating Back Pain? Get a Better Map.
Sometimes the Hospital is the Worst Place to Go
Sometimes a trip to the hospital for unrelenting back pain can take a person down the road road. Ineffective and dangerous treatment is the wrong treatment. Sometimes it happens because they’re looking at the wrong map! Over the years, I’ve seen dozens of people who went to the hospital with back pain, and came out without a real solution, on heavy drugs, with bad side effects.
The Wrong Map Leads Down the Wrong Road
Sometimes back pain is caused by a fracture, an infection, a tumor, an acutely herniated disc. That’s when X-rays or MRIs get right at the problem and the right treatment happens. That’s when you want to see a neurosurgeon or orthopedic spine specialist. And I refer to docs like that every week. X-rays and MRIs give us a map of the territory. But they are not the territory. They tell us specific and limited information about the person and his or her back. And sometimes they miss the issue. The trouble is when we think the map IS the territory. ‘The X-ray shows you have arthritis’. That must be the problem, because it doesn’t show anything else. If the pain is severe and unrelenting, that’s when the provider goes down a dangerous road and starts prescribing heavy meds, which don’t get at the problem.