Dr. Gary A. Mellick D.O.
Sleep Medicine Specialist | Sleep Medicine
309 Medical Center Dr Sw Fort Payne AL, 35968About
Dr. Gary Mellick practices Sleep Medicine in Fort Payne, AL. Dr. Mellick studies, diagnoses, and treats sleep disturbances and disorders due to varying factors. Sleep Medicine Physicians are trained to treat many different conditions, including insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, idiopathic hypersomnia, menstrual-related hypersomnia, and circadian rhythm disturbances, among others.
Education and Training
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 1981
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neuromuscular blockade after ingestion of tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca).
- Innovative approach to headaches.
- Treatment of primary headache in the emergency department.
- Treatment of headaches in the ED with lower cervical intramuscular bupivacaine injections: a 1-year retrospective review of 417 patients.
- Treatment of acute orofacial pain with lower cervical intramuscular bupivacaine injections: a 1-year retrospective review of 114 patients.
- Presentations of acute phenytoin overdose.
- Paraspinous Injections With Ropivacaine for Pediatric Headache Treatment.
- Hemifacial spasm: successful treatment with felbamate.
- Successful treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy with gabapentin.
Treatments
- Headaches
- Sleep Apnea
- Parkinson's Disease
- Sleep Disorders
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Epilepsy
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Memory Loss
- Pain
- Migraine
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea (osa)
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