Understand your pain.
Own your recovery.
Gabriel Radu, DO — Board-Certified, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Interventional Pain Management
Plain-language, illustrated guides to how pain works, how the procedures that treat it actually happen, and the exercises that keep you moving.
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Everything is written for patients — no jargon, every step illustrated.
🩻 Pain Care, Explained
Nerve pain vs. joint pain — and step-by-step visual guides to epidurals, nerve blocks & ablation, SI joint injections, and spinal cord stimulation.
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🏃 Home Exercise Library
The classic exercises for back, neck, shoulder, hip, knee and foot — one clear photo per position, with videos of the full movement and printable sheets.
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🩺 Conditions & Recovery Plans
37 pain conditions — pinched nerves, arthritis, tendon problems — each with a 3-phase exercise plan, curated PT videos, and the research behind it.
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💉 The Complete Procedure Reference
Every interventional pain option — 52 procedures from epidurals to spinal cord stimulation to regenerative injections — illustrated and explained with the evidence.
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▶ Video Library
Over 100 hand-picked physical-therapy videos from trusted PT channels, organized by condition and matched to your exercise plan.
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📖 Pain Encyclopedia
Conditions, medications, self-care, insurance and more — 20 browsable categories you can filter to patient-friendly entries.
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🧍 Anatomy Explorer
Click through the spine, nerves and joints to see exactly where your pain comes from — the same maps we draw in clinic.
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🦿 Braces & Supports
A guide to orthoses and assistive devices — what each one does, when it helps, and what to look for.
Find your fit →What is physiatry?
Physiatry — physical medicine & rehabilitation (PM&R) — is the medical specialty focused on function: restoring what pain, injury, or illness has taken away. Rather than treating a scan, a physiatrist treats the whole person — combining precise diagnosis, image-guided procedures, medications, therapeutic exercise, and the right equipment so you can move, work, and live comfortably again.
A good rule from our clinic: nerves need calming, joints need strengthening — and knowing which one is driving your pain is where every good plan starts. Learn the difference →
🧑⚕️ For clinicians & trainees
The professional half of this site — a complete PM&R board-review platform with 2,473 practice questions, flashcards, clinical vignettes, an interactive knowledge map, and AI study tools — lives in its own hub.