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“Curing Back Pain”
The Today Show -- NBC-TV

A clip from NBC's Today Show with Dr. Norman Marcus and a pain-free patient discussing how back pain can often be cured without surgery or mind-altering medications
   

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“My Aching Back!”
Good Morning America, Ch. 7 (ABC)

A film clip from ABC's Good Morning America, showing how the Muscle Pain Detection Device changed the life of two patients considered untreatable and whose lives were totally disrupted by persistent back and leg pain.
   

“Stop the Pain!”
Eyewitness News, Ch. 7 (ABC)
Air date: April, 2005

A film clip from ABC's Eyewitness News, showing how the Muscle Pain Detection Device changed the life of two patients considered untreatable and whose lives were totally disrupted by persistent back and leg pain.
   

“Best Doctors 2005”
New York Magazine, June 13, 2005

Dr. Norman Marcus has been selected as a Best Doctor by New York Magazine five times, including most recently in 2005.

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“Top This”
Excerpted from Bottom Line's Daily Health News, June 30, 2005

 

I've talked a lot in recent months about options for muscle pain
relief -- substitutes for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
(NSAIDs) and other pain pills... supplements that can help ease joint pain... and even exercise and massage regimens. What about topical creams and lotions?

Topical Advantages
To learn about topical pain relief options, I spoke with Norman J.
Marcus, MD, founder of the Norman Marcus Pain Institute in New York City, past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and author of Freedom from Pain (Fireside). He told me that topical treatments offer significant pain relief with few of the side effects of oral medications, thanks to the fact that topical treatments generally are not absorbed into the bloodstream at the level that ingestibles are.
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“Big Dangerous Pains”
Norman Marcus, M.D.
Excerpted from Bottom Line's Daily Health News, April 12, 2004

Excerpted from Bottom Line's Daily Health News, April 12, 2004
The headlines are filled with stories of celebrities and "plain folk"
alike who become addicted to pain medications after suffering an injury. While it is tempting to think that the sufferers are emotionally weak or victims of their celebrity, according to Dr. Norman Marcus, founder of the Norman Marcus Pain Institute in New York City, past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and author of Freedom from Pain, the problems are real and related to the misunderstanding of chronic pain.
Everybody understands acute pain. When you burn yourself or break a bone, there are obvious physical signs. You experience the pain, and then the injury heals. You forget about it, and life goes on.
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