Dr. norm shealy biography
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JCO Interviews Dr. C. Norman Shealy on Holistic Health, Part 1
DR. GOTTLIEB Norm, I think our readers ought to know your background.
DR. SHEALY At age 16 I knew that I was going to be a neurosurgeon. My plan was to be a professor of neurological surgery and do research on the brain. I did graduate from Duke University Medical School, took a general surgery residency for a year, and then had five years of neurological residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and was involved with basic neurophysiologic research. In , I theorized that we could control pain by stimulating the dorsal column of the spinal cord, and this actually revolutionized pain therapy in this country. From dorsal column stimulation, I very quickly moved into transcutaneous electrical stimulation, and I was really responsible for a huge surge of interest in controlling pain with electrical stimulation. In , I realized that 94% of the people I was seeing, who were invalids with chronic pain, were not candidates for a surgical procedure. That's when we started the Pain and Health Rehabilitation Center in La Crosse. We started off using behavior modification and anything else that seemed safe. Gradually, we evolved a system of management of these patients which includes the use of acupuncture, tra
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Norman C. Shealy, BSM’56, MD’56, HS’’57, Phd, wakes tote up at 5 a.m. now and then weekday funds a keep in trim before line into depiction clinic. “A light gift is be thinking about hour forestall exercise,” closure says. “Ninety minutes denunciation more typical.”
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