Dr. Lynna M Lesko MD, PHD
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
104 Richards Rd South Kent CT, 06785About
Dr. Lynna Lesko practices Pain Medicine in South Kent, CT. 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. Lesko 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
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 1977
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Aptiganel hydrochloride in acute ischemic stroke: a randomized controlled trial.
- Lives in a balance: perceived family functioning and the psychosocial adjustment of adolescent cancer survivors.
- Fellowship training objectives and readings in consultation-liaison transplantation psychiatry.
- Calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonist BIBN 4096 BS for the acute treatment of migraine.
- Long-term psychosexual adjustment of acute leukemia survivors: impact of marrow transplantation versus conventional chemotherapy.
- Psychosocial correlates of physician-patient communication at time of informed consent for bone marrow transplantation.
- Treatment and support in confusional states.
- Psychiatric aspects of adult leukemia.
- Psychological distress in parents consenting to child's bone marrow transplantation.
- Open-label extension study of flibanserin in women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder.
- Anticipatory immune suppression and nausea in women receiving cyclic chemotherapy for ovarian cancer.
- Surviving hematological malignancies: stress responses and predicting psychological adjustment.
- Psychosocial issues in the diagnosis and management of cancer cachexia and anorexia.
- Patients', parents', and oncologists' perceptions of informed consent for bone marrow transplantation.
- Psychological issues in patients with hematological malignancies.
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