Emerson M Jou

Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

321 N Kuakini Street Suite 410 Honolulu HI, 96817 Show map

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Dr. Emerson M Jou is a physiatrist practicing in Honolulu, HI. Dr. Jou is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Jou focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Jou can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.

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Samples of Pain Mismanagement
One day on a flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles, I responded to an in-flight call for a doctor offering my help as always. A young doctor was there ahead of me tending to a female passenger. He had already placed her lying down on the aisle, and a flight attendant was checking her blood pressure...

What does a physiotherapist do in palliative care?
Physical therapy is provided as indicated/needed/justified based on assessment/evaluation. READ MORE
What are the treatment options for kyphosis?
Kyphosis is the result of strained muscles/fasciae (in the sequence of importance) in abdomen, rib cage including pectoral muscles, neck flexors and upper back where the hump is. It has nothing to do with the vertebrae except for obvious fracture or defect. Therefore the only effective treatment is to loosen the tightened muscles by light touch, but never stretching or traction. It may take 3-4 hours to correct kyphosis. Surgery with insertion of rod in the spine is a terrible thing to do. Not only does it destruct normal bone structure into irreversible alteration, but also it severely affects daily life into disability by limiting movement/function of the spine. The same is applicable to scoliosis. This is detailed in my book “NO MORE PAIN All Pain Considered - A Breakthrough”. Please visit my website: NoMorePainClinic.com READ MORE
How long do you take pain meds after knee surgery?
Pain medications of any kind only mask pain for a few hour each time but have no therapeutic effect to the source of pain whatsoever, meaning the source of pain remains unimproved. To cure pain, the source of pain must be identified, located and effectively treated. The source of pain lies in the strained soft tissue (muscle/fascia, mostly fascia) outside and around the knee and NEVER the knee joint itself. Knee surgery does not treat or resolve pain but adds more injury/pain instead. Therefore, knee pain prior to surgery remains untreated/unimproved and now more injury/pain from surgery is added to the knee. The injury can be easily located only by palpation (yet physicians routinely fail to do so but relying instead on X-rays/MRI which do not show the injury at all). For knee pain, either prior to or after surgery, the focus should be on the strained soft tissue. Once all injured sites are located, pain can be easily cured by light touch to initiate self-healing internally by the body itself. No other treatments are effective enough to cure pain including all external means (medication/injection, hot/clod, ultrasound, electrotherapy, massage, vibration, manipulation, stretching, strengthening, brace, etc.). This is detailed in my book "NO MORE PAIN All Pain Considered - A Breakthrough". Please visit my website: NoMorePainClinic.com READ MORE
How long does it take to rehab from shoulder surgery?
It depends on what and how bad the original shoulder problem is, what surgery is done and what the post-operative condition is as well as what kind of rehab is. I would elaborate only when those specifics are known. READ MORE