Hal Blatman, MD, President American Holistic Medical Association - AHMA

Hal Blatman, MD, board president of the American Holistic Medical Association is the founder and medical director of the Blatman Pain Clinic. Cincinnati's first clinic specifically dedicated to providing traditional and holistic pain treatment solutions, and a globally recognized specialist in myofascial pain. He is board certified in Pain Management and Occupational and environmental Medicine. During his tenure in general medicine, Dr. Blatman recognized western medicine's difficulty treating and managing chronic and myofascial pain. Consequently, he studied with the late Janet Travell, M.D., then recognized as the world's leading expert in treating myofascial pain disorders. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the American Academy of Pain Management, and is also Chairman of the Committee on Technology and Integrative Medicine.  Dr. Blatman joins us to tell of his journey to integrative pain management and the front line on which physicians like him who belong to the American Holistic Medical Association find themselves when offering innovative approaches, as he does to therapies including prolotherapy, in order raise the standard of care to their clinical patients.

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