Our Specialties Include

• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
• Traumatic and Degenerative Spine Surgery
• Arthritis of the Spine & Scoliosis
• Oncologic Conditions
• Disc Replacements
• Non-operative Spine Care
• Interventional Pain Medicine
• Spinal Cord Simulators
• Functional Discography
• Physical Therapy
• Bone Density/Osteoporosis

Dr. Kornelis Poelstra
Orthopaedic and Neurological
Spine Surgeon

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Useful Links: Pain Medicine Links

The National Pain Foundation
The National Pain Foundation is an online education and support community for pain patients and their families - your source for information about treatment options, and support. Their mission is to create a highly accessible information network that will empower individuals to make optimum use of available resources to manage pain.

Pain.com
Pain.com is a site which provides quality educational content. This site is sponsored by the Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation.

American Pain Society's Decade of Pain Control and Research
This site provides information about treatment, the pain care bill of rights, finding support, voices of people in pain, links, as well as well as clinical and research resources.

American Pain Foundation
The American Pain Foundation is a nonprofit information resource and patient advocacy organization serving people with pain. Their mission is to improve the quality of life of people with pain by providing practical information for patients, raising public awareness and understanding of pain, and advocating against barriers to effective treatment.

American Academy of Pain Management
The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) is the medical specialty society representing physicians practicing in the field of Pain Medicine. As a medical specialty society, the Academy is involved in education, training, advocacy, and research in the specialty of Pain Medicine.

St. Jude Medical – ANS
Learn more about neurostimulation (spinal cord stimulation), a therapy for chronic pain.

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain from Medtronic
Learn how Medtronic neurostimulators for spinal cord stimulation effectively treat chronic pain.