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Dr. Justin Kruer is a pain management doctor that specializes in controlling pain when surgery is not an option or has already been performed. He works with his patients to find the best treatment plan that will avoid the risk of dependence and addiction to opioid medication. What is a Sympathetic Nerve Block? A Sympathetic…
What are Occipital Nerve Blocks? An occipital nerve block is one of the most common procedures to provide pain relief for migraines and chronic headaches. This procedure involves injecting pain-relieving medication (local anesthetic) and steroids into your greater and lesser occipital nerves. Your greater occipital nerve is responsible for most of the feeling in the…
What is a Pain Management Doctor? Dr. Justin Kruer is a pain management doctor with special medical training in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of all different types of pain. Pain is a wide spectrum of disorders including acute pain, and chronic pain, and sometimes a combination of these. Pain management helps a patient alleviate…
October is National Physical Therapy (PT) month, so we wanted to showcase some aspects of Physical Therapy that may be less known to most. 1. Did you know that DPT stands for Doctor of Physical Therapy? That’s right, the DPT behind your therapist’s name means that they have a clinical doctorate in Physical Therapy, and…
Justin Kruer joined our practice at Missoula Bone & Joint in August 2019. His wife grew up in Missoula and inspired his family of 6 to move closer to her family here in Missoula. Our community is so fortunate that she did. His experience and compassionate care has enhanced the lives of many patients already….
How can Pain Injections and Radiofrequency ablations help eliminate pain? Injections are a tool that Dr. Justin Kruer uses to help diagnose a painful condition (diagnostic injections) and then to help treat a painful condition (therapeutic injections). The evaluation process starts with a careful history: what causes your pain, where is the pain, how often…
What is Pain Management? People may think that pain management basically means that a provider gives a patient opioids and pain medication, and that is simply not true. In Pain Management we like to use all kinds of modalities to control pain. Such as injection therapy (epidurals), radio frequency, physical therapy, dry needling, all used…
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