
Dr. Kermit W. Fox MD
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
2500 Metrohealth Dr Cleveland OH, 44109About
Dr. Kermit Fox practices Pain Medicine in Cleveland, OH. 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. Fox 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 Texas Southwestern Medical Center Southwestern Medical School 2005
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR- Sports Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Geometric total knee arthroplasty: local complications.
- Transient synovitis of the hip joint in children.
- Posterior dislocation of the shoulder.
- Congenital pseudarthrosis; follow-up study after massive bone-grafting.
- Osteopoikilosis; report of two cases.
- Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Referrals in a Concussion Clinic Cohort: An Exploratory Analysis.
- Surgery for the degenerative hip. Indications and contraindications.
Treatments
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Frozen Shoulder
- Herniated Disc
- Concussion
- Rotator Cuff Syndrome
- Spinal Stenosis
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