Dr. Bradley W. Wargo D.O.
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
1111 Duff Ave Mary Greeley Medical Ames IA, 50010Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Bradley Wargo practices Pain Medicine in Ames, IA. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Wargo serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences - College of Osteopathic Medicine 1998
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences College of Osteopathic Medicine 1998
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Protocol for accuracy of point of care (POC) or in-office urine drug testing (immunoassay) in chronic pain patients: a prospective analysis of immunoassay and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectometry (LC/MS/MS).
- The effectiveness of fluoroscopic cervical interlaminar epidural injections in managing chronic cervical disc herniation and radiculitis: preliminary results of a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial.
- Cervical epidural injections in chronic discogenic neck pain without disc herniation or radiculitis: preliminary results of a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial.
- Comparative evaluation of the accuracy of immunoassay with liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) of urine drug testing (UDT) opioids and illicit drugs in chronic pain patients.
- Comparative evaluation of the accuracy of benzodiazepine testing in chronic pain patients utilizing immunoassay with liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) of urine drug testing.
- A prospective evaluation of bleeding risk of interventional techniques in chronic pain.
- Infection control practices (safe injection and medication vial utilization) for interventional techniques: are they based on relative risk management or evidence?
- Preoperative fasting before interventional techniques: is it necessary or evidence-based?
- A prospective evaluation of complications of 10,000 fluoroscopically directed epidural injections.
- Complications of fluoroscopically directed facet joint nerve blocks: a prospective evaluation of 7,500 episodes with 43,000 nerve blocks.
- American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) guidelines for responsible opioid prescribing in chronic non-cancer pain: Part I--evidence assessment.
- American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) guidelines for responsible opioid prescribing in chronic non-cancer pain: Part 2--guidance.
- Management of chronic pain of cervical disc herniation and radiculitis with fluoroscopic cervical interlaminar epidural injections.
- A randomized, double-blind, active control trial of fluoroscopic cervical interlaminar epidural injections in chronic pain of cervical disc herniation: results of a 2-year follow-up.
Treatments
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Neuropathy
- Fibromyalgia
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Pain
- Tendonitis
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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