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I am joined by Dr. Kevin Vu, a talented pain management specialist. We talk about some of the different techniques used and some of the ones I have gotten for my chronic back pain. Being in constant pain is awful, but having a great pain management Doctor can literally be a lifesaver. We also touch on the "pains" caused by insurance companies.

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Matt Faletra: Recording.

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Kevin Vu: You're right.

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Matt Faletra: Hey, everybody! It's Matt for Matt Faletra Show we're on location. So things might look a little goofy. Today. I'm I'm not that technical, and I don't have any engineer, and I'm lost. I'm a baby. I'm a lamb in the woods, you know my engineer so. But I am very lucky to have Dr. Kevin. Vu is it? Vu.

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Kevin Vu: That's right. That's right. You got a 1st try.

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Matt Faletra: And now we were just talking offline, and I could have asked you then, couldn't I?

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Kevin Vu: That's okay. That's okay.

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Matt Faletra: But I didn't, because I'm an idiot. But so the reason why I wanted to have you on is you're a pain management, doctor, and I'm all about pain management, because I have a lot of pain. So why don't we start off by? Tell me, tell me a little bit about yourself where you went to school, and things things like that.

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Kevin Vu: Yeah, yeah, it's been quite a long journey. I'm almost at the end of it. So I actually grew up in Texas.

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Matt Faletra: Oh, whereabouts!

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Kevin Vu: Life there, around Austin.

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Matt Faletra: It's my one of my favorite cities.

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Kevin Vu: It's a great place when it's well. It feels like Austin right now, I should say. Maybe in Boston it's hundreds, but grew up there, you know, went to school in Dallas for my undergraduate degree did a combined program there. So I went straight into Med school right after at Ut Southwestern was lucky enough to again Residency offer up in Boston. I did my training in physical medicine and rehab actually at Spalding.

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Matt Faletra: Well.

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Kevin Vu: Yeah. The Harvard Spalding program was amazing, liked it enough to where I decided to stick around. And now, finishing up a pain fellowship at the Brigham Harvard program. So I'm just really happy that I get to stay in.

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Kevin Vu: Yeah.

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Matt Faletra: Wow! So that's awesome. What? Now, it's funny. My my brother-in-law is a surgeon, and he did his residency over at

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Matt Faletra: over at the Brigham. Yeah. Small world. I've had surgery over at the Brigham, hey? My 1st back surgery was at the Brigham, Dr. John Chi. I don't know.

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Matt Faletra: Oh, yeah, yeah.

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Kevin Vu: Not familiar.

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Matt Faletra: He's very! He's he's. I think he's the head of the department, so I mean he'

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