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Lars R. Newsome MD received his undergraduate degree at Columbia University in New York. He graduated with honors from Indiana University School of Medicine. After completing his anesthesiology residency and fellowship at Emory University he remained on the faculty for three years as an assistant professor of anesthesiology before joining ASMG. His comprehensive pain practice is located at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California and Orthopedic Surgery Center of La Jolla.

 

Dr. Newsome is a member of the Anesthesiology Department at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla and a QME for the State of California.

 

Dr. Newsome's Pain Management Office is located at:
4130 La Jolla Village Dr. Suite 300
La Jolla, CA 92037


Answers to FAQs concerning various pain conditions are available at SpineUniverse.com.

 

Contact Information

Scheduling: 888.722.6246

Fax: 858.244.0150

 

Procedures Performed:

  • Facet Injections

  • Fluoroscopically Guided Epidural Steroid Injections--Lumbar, Cervical, Thoracic and Caudal

  • Intradiscal Decompression

    • Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems

  • Joint Injections

  • Lumbar Sympathetic Blocks

  • Percutaneous Intradiscal Nucleoplasty

  • Peripheral Nerve Blocks

  • Provocative Discography

  • Lumbar and Cervical Radiofrequency Neurotomy

  • Selective Nerve Root Injections

  • Spinal Cord Stimulation

  • Stellate Ganglion Blocks

 

Board Certified in:

  • Pain Management

  • Anesthesiology

  • Critical Care Medicine

  • Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography


Commonly Treated Conditions:

  • Neck & Back Pain

  • Cancer Pain

  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD)

  • Disk Bulges

  • Post Herpetic Neuralgia

  • Degenerative Disk Disease

  • Facet Joint Disease

  • Myofascial Pain


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