Thompson opens pain management practice

With the addition of a physician and nurse practitioner, UR Medicine Thompson Health recently opened Thompson Health Pain Management at the Canandaigua Medical Group, 335 Parrish St. in Canandaigua.

Physician Anthony Eidelman and nurse practitioner Michelle Dugan began seeing patients at the practice Nov. 7. The practice is affiliated with F.F. Thompson Hospital.

Eidelman is an assistant professor in the department of neurosurgery’s neuromedicine pain management program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry while Dugan is an adjunct faculty member for the University of Rochester School of Nursing.

At the new practice, the two specialize in back and neck pain, cancer-related pain, complex regional pain syndromes, spinal radiculopathy, nerve injuries/peripheral neuropathy, peripheral joint pain, knee pain, post-herpetic neuralgia/shingles and  sports injuries