Michael D. Patterson, MD, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained pain medicine physician. He offers patients interventional techniques, adjuvant therapy, and medical management to manage chronic pain. He has clinical expertise in spine care, neuromodulation, radiofrequency, and neurotomy. He received his medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. He completed an internship in interventional radiology and electrophysiology at Memorial Medical Health System, Conemaugh Valley Hospital in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He completed a three-year physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also received fellowship training in pain medicine at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh. He is certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and its subspecialty of Pain Medicine. Dr. Patterson hails from Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, and currently lives in Wexford, Pennsylvania with his wife and two sons.
Age Groups Seen
Adult, Older Adult
Languages Spoken*
English
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Expertise
cancer pain
caudal injection
causalgia of lower limb
causalgia of upper limb
celiac plexus nerve block
cervical herniated disc
cervical spine evaluation
cervical spine injection
cervical spine injection evaluation
cervical spine steroid injection
degenerative joint disease of the spine
degenerative spine pain
facet injection
genicular nerve blocks
lumbar spine injection
lumbar sympathetic blocks
lumbosacral spine injection
medial branch blocks
neural foramen injection
neuromodulation
non surgical treatment for disc herniation
peripheral nerve block
peripheral nerve stimulation (pns)
radiofrequency rhizotomy
reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Credentials
Education
American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine
Internship
Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital
Residency
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Internship, Residencies & Fellowships
Fellowship
AGH-WPH Medical Education Consortium Internships, Residencies, Fellowships
Board Certification
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Pain Medicine
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Publications
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