Education
Medical school
Dr. Puig Rivera attended University Central Del Caribe Escuela De Medicina and graduated in
1997 (25 years ago).
About Me
Dr. Puig Rivera is a solo practitioner.
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Interventional Pain Management, Pain Management
- 25+ years
- Male
- 1861432148
As a physical medicine and rehabilitation, interventional pain management, and pain management, Dr. Puig Rivera may see patients with the following conditions. Please check with Dr. Puig Rivera what conditions he treats. Dr. Puig Rivera may treat additional conditions not listed.
- Abdominal pain
- Activities of daily living
- Acute pain
- Angina
- Arthritis
- Back pain
- Balance issues
- Brain damage
- Bursitis
- Calciphylaxis
Specialties
Dr. Puig Rivera is a physical medicine and rehabilitation, interventional pain management, and pain management. His primary specialty is physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also known as physiatry, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to people with physical impairments or disabilities. This can include conditions such as spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, strokes, as well as pain or disability due to muscle, ligament or nerve damage. A physician having completed training in this field may be referred to as a physiatrist.
Interventional Pain Management
Interventional pain management or interventional pain medicine is a medical subspecialty defined by the National Uniforms Claims Committee (NUCC) as, "invasive interventions such as the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing sub acute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment."
Pain Management
Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain (pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging. Most physicians and other health professionals provide some pain control in the normal course of their practice, and for the more complex instances of pain, they also call on additional help from a medical specialty devoted to pain, which is called pain medicine. Pain management often uses a multidisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of anyone experiencing pain, whether acute pain or chronic pain.