Dr. Tim Sams

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Dr. Tim Sams is a diplomat of the American Academy of Pain Management and the American College of Forensic Medicine. He is the author of the groundbreaking book ABC’s of Pain Relief and Treatment: Advances, Breakthroughs, and Choices, the first pain book for people in pain that reveals the internationally accepted, eleven-step hierarchy of medical treatments for pain. He is a frequent lecturer to pain physicians and primary care doctors across the United States. He has trained hundreds of pain residents and fellows through the University of California at Irvine. As the founder of P.A.C.E., Inc, he has seven offices throughout Southern California where he and his staff provide integrated, multidisciplinary treatment for dozens of pain centers.

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Dr. Tim is a University of Michigan graduate who completed his internship and fellowship at the Long Beach VA Medical Center. Originally trained and licensed as a behavioral medicine psychologist, he has been a pain doctor for almost twenty years. His clinical role with pain patients is to assess all the pain triggers that can be impacting on pain including tissue damage and behavioral factors. He has evaluated thousands of patients to confirm their candidacy for narcotic pain medication, orthopedic and neuro-surgery, injections, physical therapies, morphine pumps, spinal cord stimulators, gastric bypass, etc. He has reviewed tens of thousands of diagnostic tests including MRI, X-Ray, CT myelogram, EMG, nerve conduction study, discogram, PET, ultrasound, and QEEG. He has treated or supervised the treatment of over 10,000 patients since 1981.

His three decades of medical and psychological education, training, and experience make Dr. Tim uniquely qualified to consult on your individual pain condition. His personal experiences with pain provide him with even greater insight. You can receive more usable information from Dr. Tim, about both the medical and self-management of pain, than from any other source. Dr. Tim is an educator and a motivator; a warm caring soul who believes that humor is one of the best weapons against pain; humor and really good drugs.