Pain Management Specialist Joins WBGH Staff

2/13/2017

Fred Usoh, M.D.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Feb. 14, 2017) – Fred Usoh, M.D., has joined the staff of Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.

Dr. Usoh specializes in interventional pain management and is certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology. He will see patients at Suite 5, Thomas P. Saxton Medical Pavilion, 468 Northampton St., Edwardsville.

A graduate of the Ross University School of Medicine, Portsmouth, Dominica, Dr. Usoh completed a residency in surgery and anesthesiology at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., and a fellowship in interventional pain management and addiction at the Spine Care and Pain Management, Northeastern Georgia Anesthesiology Services, Athens, Ga.

He will perform special procedures to treat and manage pain. Interventional procedures may include an injection of an anesthetic medicine or steroid around nerves, tendons, joints or muscles; spinal cord stimulation; or insertion of a drug delivery system. Patients needing interventional pain management services suffer distress and discomfort caused by a variety of conditions and disorders, including: chronic low back and neck pain; chronic reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) or complex regional pain syndrome; chronic head, mouth and face pain; post-surgical procedures; post-traumatic pain syndrome, and muscle and bone pain.