Michael Ellman, M.D. is a recognized expert in the field of pain management with a clinical practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth Texas area for the past fifteen years. He is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Specialty Board Certified in Pain, Board Certified in Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EMG/NC), and is a Certified in Life Care Planning.
Dr. Ellman has been trained in advance non-surgical pain management procedures both during his residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and during his fellowship at Portner Spine and Sport Care in Hawaii. He is skilled the non-surgical treatments of pain include epidural and facet injections, facet rhizotomy, SI injections, Botox injections, and advanced intradiscal procedures aimed at treating discogenic pain. He couples these injections with medication management and physical therapy with his treatment goals aimed at maximizing functional restoration.
Dr. Ellman is one of just a handful of physicians in the country who is trained in the prolotherapy which is an injection technique with natural substances into damaged tissues that have been clinically determined to be causing pain. Injection of the natural substances will stimulate the chronically damaged tissue that has failed to heal back into the natural healing process allowing for pain relief. Patients come to him for this treatment both by referral from spine surgeons and by direct patient inquiry.
Dr. Ellman clinical practice has allowed him significant insight on how painful conditions and disabling conditions impact the medical, psychosocial, vocational, and functional outcome of a patient and uses this skill by providing services as a Certified Life Care Planner providing expert testimony and life care plans for the disabled individual.