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Adrian Popescu, MD

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Associate Professor of Clinical Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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Site Director for Pain Medicine Fellowship, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center/Philadelphia
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Department: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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39 I. L. Caragiale National College, 1994.
21 7 MD 15 (Medicine) c
49 Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 2000.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

5c Advanced comprehensive diagnosis for Musculoskeletal Pain and Spinal Pain
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a1 Advanced diagnostic fluoroscopically guided diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for spinal pain and musculoskeletal pain including joint pain disorders
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82 Advanced spine interventions including diagnostic and therapeutic nerve blocks using fluoroscopic and ultrasound guidance:
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51 Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar advanced radiofrequency ablation procedures
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25 Basovertebral Nerve Ablation
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1e Vertebral Augmentation
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52 Cervical lateral atlanto-axial joint diagnostic and therapeutic injections
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4e Cervical atlanto-occipital joint diagnostic and therapeutic injections
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48 Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar diagnostic medial branch nerve blocks
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42 Radiofrequency nerve ablations for chronic pain syndromes
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3b Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid injections
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3b Thoracic Transforaminal Epidural Steroid injections
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39 Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid injections
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2a Caudal epidural steroid injections
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4d Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar zygapophyseal joint therapeutic injections
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38 Cervical, Thoracic or Lumbar discography studies
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24 Spinal Cord neuromodulation
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20 Sympathetic nerve blocks
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52 Ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks and therapeutic joint injections
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48 Electrodiagnostic- electromyography and nerve conduction studies
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Description of Other Expertise

51 Instructor for International Pain and Spine Intervention Society
32 Instructor for North American Spine Society
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