Continuing Education

NOHC regularly hosts physician events, some of which are sanctioned to provide Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.

Advances in the Treatment of Neck Pain

• Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 6:00-8:30 PM
• Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL.

• Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 6:00-8:30 PM
• Maggiano's Little Italy, Oak Brook, IL.

Free programs. Space is limited, so early registration is advised. For more information or to register, please phone 773/250-0484.

Neck pain accounts for almost one percent of all visits to a primary care physician in the United States. Critical to the care of these patients is the early identification of the presence or absence of potentially serious conditions. Once this is discerned, more common, degenerative conditions can be treated with an array of conservative and/or surgical treatments.

Conservative techniques including drug therapy, physical therapy, targeted injection therapies, radiofrequency rhizotomy, and integrative therapies are usually very successful. Intractable pain from cervical radiculopathy, progressive weakness or numbness, and cervical spondylotic myelopathy are among the common indications for spinal fusion or artificial disc procedures.

Fellowship-trained physicians with over twenty years of cumulative clinical experience will provide a comprehensive review of neck pain and available treatments.