Alternative Pain Management Techniques that Heal the Pain - Without Addiction.

Alternative Pain and Disease Management

Stuart L. Weg, MDAlternative Pain Management SpecialistPatients Medical

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Introducing our speaker:

Stuart L. Weg, MDAlternative Pain Management Specialist


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Internship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Residency at Beth Israel Hospital Medical Center with NY

Mt. Sinai Medical School Preceptorship in Invasive Pain Management at Texas Tech U 1982 - Began treating chronic pain patients 1993 – Certificate #423 in Pain Management issued on the

first examination ever offered 2005 – Recertified in Pain Medicine Holder of various US and foreign patents on pain

management innovations and discoveries Conducted frequent lectures and online events with AOL


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Specialties include Detecting the “root cause” of pain Using alternative pain protocols to treat,

instead of merely covering up the symptom

Oxidative therapies And many more!


Alternative Pain Management:

Safe and Effective Solutions for Chronic Pain

Agenda for this seminar

Chronic Pain versus Acute pain Expected pain Normal pain

Conventional or Mainstream approach

Alternative approach or paradigm Alternative treatment protocol used

at Patients Medicalwww.patientsmedical.com

Early 20th Century Pain TherapyTraditional, Natural and Homeopathy cures abandoned after the Flexner

Report of 1910


Early 20th Century Pain TherapyEarly recognition of infection as a source of arthritis

Dental and bowel sources suspected Antibiotics were used and abandoned

with the discovery of Cortisone


Early 20th Century Pain Therapy

Surgical and chemical techniques to destroy nerves and brain tissue to

control pain are still being attempted


Pain Management after WWII

Wider use of local anesthetic injections and blocks for pain

Discovery of the steroid drug/hormone Cortisone, hailed as wonder drug for arthritis

Treatment of President John F. Kennedy with Cortisone and local anesthetics became today’s Gold Standard


Conventional Mantra


Injury Inflammation cortisone blocks here Swelling Reduced blood flow Tissue asphyxiation

Nerve damage Chronic Pain

Inflammation reduces blood flow, leading to damage and pain treated with steroids.

WWII to present Conventional Pain Management Outline

1. Local anesthetic and steroids for any form of pain

2. When that treatment failed, destruction of nerves with surgery, chemicals, microwaves or freezing

3. Long term drug (narcotic)

maintenance as the FINAL SOLUTION


Conventional Pain Management Treatment Failures Are Common

What is widely accepted now The use of steroid medications is not supported

by any long term studies; it provides short term help on occasion only

Local anesthesia injections have only benefited a small percentage of patients

Destruction of nerve tissue only gives temporary relief at best

An increasing number of patients fail and are now maintained on long term narcotic management

Insurance companies are aware of the poor prognosis and have been denying payment for these treatments www.patientsmedical.com

Why?

• Why can’t we control inflammation? • Why don’t steroids help?• Why does inflammation always return?• Why does nerve destruction only give

temporary relief?• Why does chronic pain travel and grow?• Why do chronic pain patients need more and

stronger pain medications?• Why don’t chronic pain patients just get

better?• Why don’t they JUST HEAL instead of getting

worse? www.patientsmedical.com

More Questions


Why are these mainstream treatments useless for so many patients?

Could these treatments be preventing healing?

Could Steroids be making things worse?

Could the need for stronger pain drugs be addiction? Or could that be because the pain is GETTING WORSE!?

More Questions


There was something missing from the picture, but I didn’t

know what it was.

Doctors Must Listen to Their Patients!

In 1993 my NJ chronic pain patient went to an alternative doctor in NYC and got treated with intravenous hydrogen peroxide. She had pain relief! I investigated, and asked WHY?

How could a 1920 vintage infection treatment for influenza pneumonia make the chronic pain in her bladder go away?

The word got around. Soon my whole chronic pain practice wanted this treatment. I treated them.


Doctors Must Listen to Their Patients!

Here is what happened next:


IV Hydrogen Peroxide for Pain1995 Study

57 patients received a total of 503 (mean 9) IV drips of 250mls of .03% H2O2 for non-malignant intractable pain

66% had significant + improvement 86% reduced their pain medication 96% wanted another infusion

(Presented at a doctors conference in 1999)


Side Effects Observed in IV H2O2 Study Subjects

Classic Infection Signs! Cultivable discharges from old surgical scars and elsewhere Fever and chills – Herxheimer Rx (detox) Sinus and pulmonary drainage Purulent urine Overall clinical improvement

(Presented at a doctors conference in 1999)www.patientsmedical.com

What About Other Anti-Infection Treatment?

Alternative Doctors treating Chronic Pain with Minocycline Doxycycline and other antibiotics Ozone Ultraviolet Therapy

all reported similar clinical patient reactions!


Proposed Mechanism


Infection causes a chronic

inflammation and thereby sustains chronic painful

conditions.

(Presented at a doctors conference in 1999)

Alternative Pain Management at Patients Medical

Recognizes that Mainstream/conventional treatments

are not effective for many patients Chronic Pain is caused by an

injury or lesion that cannot heal usually because of infection in the tissues


Alternative Paradigm for Chronic Pain


Injury Inflammation cortisone blocks (allows infection) Swelling Reduced blood flow Infections attack!Tissue asphyxiation

Nerve damage Chronic Pain

Alternative Paradigm for Chronic Pain



Chronic Pain Summary

Chronic pain is generated by damaged tissue that is not recovering and/or healing

Restoring the tissues to health will make them heal and stop hurting

Healthy tissue cannot exist in the presence of infections

Anything that reduces infection will reduce inflammation, allow healing, treat and eventually eliminate pain

The opposite is also true: Favoring infection will increase pain.

Infections? Are Germs Keeping Me in Pain?

Is my chronic pain that simple? What kinds of germs would do this? Where did they come from? Why didn’t my body get rid of them? Isn’t the inside of my body sterile? How did these germs get into my painful

areas? Am I doing something that caused this

infection? Why didn’t my antibiotics prevent or clear

infections? Are there exceptions to this concept?www.patientsmedical.com

Simple, but Not Easy

Common germs exist in varied forms Example: Spores

Your body has reservoirs of germs Where? Teeth, bowel, vagina, prostate

These germs can travel through your body

Through blood, lymphatics, meridians Why do these germs stay in inflamed

areas? Because they don’t like oxygen

Could my immune system be suppressed or overwhelmed?

Yes and Yes.


First Do No Harm - FAQs

I was given an epidural for back pain. Will that make me worse? My brother had no problems.

Are steroids (Cortisone) always a bad idea?

How could chronic pain from my herniated disc be from infection?

Could smoking make my pain worse? Could pain medication make the

infection worse? www.patientsmedical.com

Anti-Infective Pain Protocol First developed 20 years ago

Continuously refined and expanded No size fits all


Anti-Infective Pain Protocol

1. Clear the Body of Infections Natural and pharmaceutical anti-

infectives Oxidative therapies▪ Peroxide▪ Ozone▪ Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation▪ Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy▪ Antibiotics and Antifungals▪ Supplements – Oral and IV



2. Eliminate Reservoirs Where Infections Hide

Dental Sources: all root canals are a source

Bowel Sources Sinus Areas Fungal Locations Others



3. Support the Body’s Own Immune System

Avoid suppressing drugs and activities▪ Stop smoking▪ Reduce or eliminate pain medications▪ Stop all anti-inflammatory hormone drugs▪ Cortisone▪ DMARDs (Embril)

▪ Improve Lifestyle and Nutrition



4. Patient Management Patient education of expectations Detoxification reactions Patient-specific clinical protocol

navigation Consultations and education of other

required medical consultants Coping with hostile social environment

for healing Weaning the patient to home self care



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