The attention to pain issues also is visible in the growth of area practices. The Institute for Pain Medicine has more than doubled its caseload in the last 18 months. That's why we are so excited about the new fellowship program. The number of patients and the types of cases we see in our practice provide excellent educational opportunities in these new treatments. Dr. Vassiliev said he looked at a number of fellowship programs and was surprised at the differences among them.
Some programs are very conservative and focused on medication.
We do all of the latest procedures, some of which are not done anywhere else in the tri-state area.