Ep. 142- The resolution of non-cardiac chest pain with corrective exercises with Dr. Vikas Agarwal

💭“Mechanical pain and mechanical concepts don't exist in the practice of medicine.” Dr. Vikas Agarwal

 👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Vikas Agarwal MD, Cert. MDT, FACP. Dr. Vikas is an Internal Medicine physician, also certified in the McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT). He is the first Internal Medicine physician to integrate mechanical concepts of the McKenzie Method into his primary care practice. Dr. Agarwal is a 1994 graduate of King George’s Medical College (KGMC) in Lucknow, India. Following four and a half years of medical school, he spent six years as an Internal Medicine Resident, three with All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS, New Delhi, 1995-1997), and three with the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC, 1998-2001). Dr. Agarwal is Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (2001/2011) and became Certified in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy in 2015. He is a two-time recipient of the Mosaic Life Care Distinguished Physician Recognition Award (2012 & 2014). Dr. Agarwal's goal is to create awareness of the mechanical pain and mechanical causes resulting in many of the human being's ailment. Dr. Agarwal specializes in managing patients with acute and chronic pain at Mosaic Life Care in Saint Joseph, MO where he also serves as a Physician Collaborator for Nurse Practitioners.

📚You will learn about:

• How he integrates the mechanical concepts of the McKenzie Method into his primary care practice.
• The concepts of mechanical pain and sclerotomal pain in medicine.
• How cases of peripheral polyneuropathy, sinus issues, oropharyngeal dysphagia, abdominal pain, chest pain, pelvic pain, and dysfunction can have mechanical causes and respond to exercises.
• His paper that was just published in the énows Annals of Internal Medicine: 'Resolution of Noncardiac Chest Pain With Corrective Exercises for Neck and Upper Thoracic Spine.

🔎 Dr. Vikas’s resources of information:⁠⁠

Paper: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2023.0804

Nobel Prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/press-release/

📲 Dr. Vikas’s contact information:

 Email: [email protected]

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