• APS Patient Registration Forms
• About
  • C M Schade, MD, PhD, PE
  • Hospital Affiliations
• Services
  • Chronic Pain Management Program
  • CARF Outcomes
  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
  • Consultation
  • Diagnostic Injections
  • Low Back and Neck Pain
  • Medication Management
  • Physical Rehabilitation / Work Hardening
  • Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)
  • Therapeutic Procedures
  • Workers Compensation
• Office Information
  • Office Information
  • Insurances
  • Practice FAQ
• Patient Education
  • (CRPS) RSD Overview
    • CRPS (RSD) Explained
    • Sequential Stages of CRPS
    • A Convergent Pathophysiologic Theory
    • Functional Restoration Algorithm
    • SMP (Sympathetically Maintained Pain)
  • Pain FAQs
  • Glossary
• Publications
  • Automatic Adaptation
  • ADAC
  • Assessment of Patient Preference
  • Active Electrode Screening for LBP
  • Coadministration of an Opioid
  • Computer Modeling of Spinal Cord Stimulation
  • Evidence-Based Pain Medicine for Primary Care Physicians
  • Fluoroscopic Safety
  • Guidelines for Implantation
  • Heuristics
  • INSYNCH Updates in Interventioanl Pain Treatments
  • MD News Magainze Cover
  • Medtronic – Pursuing Advanced Indications
  • Nitrous Oxide
  • Opioid Overdoses: Not a Prescribing Crisis – an Addiction Crisis
  • Optimal Regulation
  • Pain Management Book
  • Prevention of Mechanical Failures
  • Radiation Safety
  • Skylab
  • Successful SCS Trials
  • Super Stim
  • TexasMedicine Magazine Cover
  • The Story of the TPS
  • Voltage Versus Current Stimulation
  • Voltage Versus Current Stimulation Presentation
  • Women’s G Tolerance

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