Dr. Thomas M Larkin M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Pain Medicine
17 Western Maryland Pkwy 100 Hagerstown MD, 21740About
Dr. Thomas Larkin is a physiatrist practicing in Hagerstown, MD. Dr. Larkin is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Larkin 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. Larkin 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.
Education and Training
State University of New York Upstate Medical University 1991
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A novel technique for delivery of epidural steroids and diagnosing the level of nerve root pathology.
- Transforaminal epidural steroid delivery and diagnosing the level of nerve root pathology: comments on Baker et al., Pain 103/1-2, 2003.
- Nucleoplasty with or without intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET) as a treatment for lumbar herniated disc.
- Presentation, diagnoses, mechanisms of injury, and treatment of soldiers injured in Operation Iraqi Freedom: an epidemiological study conducted at two military pain management centers.
- Pulsed radiofrequency of the dorsal root ganglia is superior to pharmacotherapy or pulsed radiofrequency of the intercostal nerves in the treatment of chronic postsurgical thoracic pain.
- A double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-response pilot study evaluating intradiscal etanercept in patients with chronic discogenic low back pain or lumbosacral radiculopathy.
- Multicenter, randomized, comparative cost-effectiveness study comparing 0, 1, and 2 diagnostic medial branch (facet joint nerve) block treatment paradigms before lumbar facet radiofrequency denervation.
- Medial Branch Blocks or Intra-Articular Injections as a Prognostic Tool Before Lumbar Facet Radiofrequency Denervation: A Multicenter, Case-Control Study.
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Arthritis
- Bursitis
- Osteoarthritis
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Pain
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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