Pain and Wellness Center - Providers - Julien Vaisman, M.D.

Dr. Vaisman is Board certified in Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology and Pain Management. He is an Instructor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vaisman founded the Pain and Wellness Center in October 1996. Read more...

Dr. Julien Vaisman is teaching on a regular basis for residents and fellows from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and from Malden Family Practice (Tufts) residency program. He is a guest speaker at various seminars on various pain management topics. Presently Dr. Vaisman is actively involved in two large clinical trials. One of them is related to the efficacy of lumbar epidural injections.

Some of Dr. Vaisman's publications include:

  • The effect of Phenylephrine and Tropicamide on the pupil of the diabetic patient. M.D. Thesis, 1980, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Painful Rheumatoid Arthritis Core curriculum for professional education in pain, IASP publication, 1991
  • Acupuncture Obstetric Analgesia, edited by G.W. ostheimer, chapter 140, Churchill-Livingstone, 1991
  • Regression of Sensory Anesthesia During Continuous Epidural Infusion of Bupivicaine and Opioid for the Total Knee Replacement Anesthesia Analgesia, 1993;77:1179-84
  • Pulse radiofrequency. A new and ingenious modality for pain management. New England Pain Association Newsletter, Vol. 4, issue 2, Sept. 1999
  • Pelvic Hematoma After an Ilioinguinal Block for Orchialgia Anesthesia Analgesia 2001;92:1048-49
  • Interventional pain management Interventional techniques for the alleviation of pain in the care of HIV-infected patient, in Pain Management, Anesthesia and HIV/AIDS, edited by Srdjan S. Nedeljkovic, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002
  • Refractor episodic cluster headache responsive to percutaneous cervical zygapophyseal radiofrequency abiation: a case report Accepted for publication on October 9, 2002, in HEADACHE, The Journal of Head and Face Pain
  • Polymethylmetacrylate filled needle track three weeks after percutaneous vertebroplasty Pain Physicians 2004:7, 987-489

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