Kovosh Dastan, MD

Kovosh Dastan, MD

Specialties:

Pain Management
  • Valley Health Provider

About

Dr. Dastan is a board-certified pain management specialist with Valley Health Interventional Pain Specialists. 

Professional Affiliations

  • Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • World Academy of Pain Medicine United
  • American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA)
  • American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Conditions

  • Chronic Back
  • Post-laminectomy syndrome (post spine surgery)
  • Non-surgical back pain
  • Bulging Disc / Disc Herniation
  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)/RSD
  • Degenerative Disc Disease
  • Peripheral Neuropathy (Diabetes, HIV)
  • Spinal Stenosis
  • Facet Joint Arthritis
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Vertebral Compression Fractures
  • Cancer Pain
  • Shingles
  • Motor Vehicle Injuries
  • Rotator Cuff Tear
  • Joint Osteoarthritis
  • Post Herpetic Neuralgia
  • Phantom Limb Pain
  • Piriformis Syndrome

Procedures

  • Spinal cord stimulators
  • Peripheral nerve stimulators
  • Neuromodulation (to treat chronic pain of the neck, back, legs hands, hips, knees and feet)
  • Kyphoplasty
  • Radiofrequency Ablation
  • Pain Epidurals (Lumbar, Thoracic, Cervical, Caudal)
  • Spine Joint Injections
  • Nerve Blocks
  • Muscle Injections
  • Bursa Injections
  • Botox for Migraines/ cervical dystonia
  • Joint Injections (knee, shoulder, hip, sacroiliac)
  • Sympathetic Blocks

Affiliations

  • Valley Health Interventional Pain Specialists
  • Winchester Medical Center

Locations

Education

Board Certification

Pain Management

Fellowship

North American Spine and Pain Hainesport, NJ Interventional Spine and Musculoskeletal Medicine Fellowship Eastern Virginia Medical School: Norfolk, VA Pain Management Fellowship

Internship

Howard University Hospital: Washington, DC Medical Internship

Residency

University of Virginia: Charlottesville, NC Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency

Medical School

Howard University College of Medicine: Washington, DC Doctor of Medicine

Graduate School

Georgetown University: Washington, DC M.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

College

George Mason University: Fairfax, VA

Publications

Boomgaardt J, Dastan K, Chan T, Shilling A, Abd-Elsayed A, Kohan L. "An Algorithm Approach to Phantom Limb Pain." J Pain Res. 2022;15:3349-3367 2022

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Haque, Abid, Dastan, Kovosh, Patel, Nathan, Passerella, Candice, Michael, Miriam "Racial Bias in the Assessment of Pain" Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 103.3 2022