Dr. Manoj Singhal BSc. (Pharm), MD, CCFP, CAFCI

Helping Personal Injury Law Firms with Complexities: Complex Pain – Psychiatry – Headache/Head Injury

Psychiatry: Dr Singhal was hired by Riverview Hospital in 1996 to assess Geriatric Psychiatry patients for Internal Medicine issues. In juxta position, Dr Singhal was a prosecutor and review Panel GP-psychiatry expert at Vancouver Hospital (Tertiary Psychiatry Centre) and Riverview Hospital (Quaternary Psychiatry Centre). In 1997, Dr Singhal started Full time Consultancy GP-Psychiatry with four Mental Health Centres providing thorough consultant assessment and psychiatry treatments. Dr Singhal transitioned to Full time Family Practice in 2000. From 2008-2015, Dr Singhal had chronic disease registered nurses involved in his FP clinic with his Associates to enhance Psychiatry Assessments of Patients in juxta position to assessing Internal Medicine issues and complex pain issues. Dr Singhal started speaking as an expert in psychiatry issues in 1996 and continues speaking to attending Physicians and Psychiatrists. Dr Singhal has provided GP-Psychiatry Consultancy services to the BC Ministry of Health as a trusted resource for reviewing Psychiatry issues and therapeutic recommendations with literature reviews.

Chronic/Complex Pain: Dr Singhal started in a particular Consultancy GP-Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation role as clinical team leader of a multidisciplinary team in 1997 with Columbia Chronic Active Pain Rehabilitation: a pain Rehabilitation programme in Vancouver BC. He prepared consultancy reports largely to Worksafe BC and to other private third parties.  Medical Specialists in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation have expertise in the diagnosis of persons with complex trauma, spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury, neurological disorders, general medicine disorders, amputation, arthritis, soft tissue injuries, and musculoskeletal pain syndromes. There may be variability in particular skills within the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Over the years Dr Singhal has gained experience and interests in complex chronic disease issues and chronic non cancer pain. Dr Singhal has routinely assessed pain conditions in the family practice setting since 2000. From 2008-2015, Dr Singhal involved chronic disease nurses to help in assessing complex chronic pain patients, and to initiate and continue with complex treatment plans. He has remained a resource to his associate physicians with issues of complex pain. In 2014, Dr Singhal was offered a consultancy position with BC Women’s Hospital complex chronic disease Programme with their tertiary consultancy programme. Dr Singhal has decided to continue with providing complex pain assessments within his group family practice setting while providing consultancy services to private third parties.

Headache/Head Injury: Dr Singhal is a trained regional provider of Botox to treat chronic migraine. He has given continuing medical education presentations to physicians in headache assessment differential diagnosis and pharmacological management of migraine. Other headaches and head injuries are needed to be considered in the differential diagnosis of head pain symptoms especially when there is a history of MVC (Motor Vehicle Collision) /MVA (Motor Vehicle Accident).  Migraine and headaches are commonly co-morbid conditions with Psychiatric Conditions or chronic pain conditions such as Fibromyalgia.  With MVC (Motor Vehicle Collision) /MVA (Motor Vehicle Accident) patients it is often imperative that Independent Medical Evaluators have at least a reasonable background in headache/head injury assessment or large pieces of the clinical picture may be missing or multiple Independent Medical Evaluator practitioners may be needed to provide fragmented opinions.

Dr.Manoj Singhal BSc.(Pharm.),MD,CCFP,CAFCI

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