Background
Dr. Mikiko Murakami was a patient of multiple failed knee surgeries. She sought out various forms of medicine outside of western health care after her surgeries to fully recover, and used these challenging experiences to create her path as a physician and a healer.
After founding a San Francisco-based integrative medicine company, Dr. Murakami learned how various modalities of medicine can work together to prevent and heal diseases. Her integrative medicine expertise was used as a starting point to becoming a physician.
She is now a Doctor of Osteopathy and acupuncturist, and board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) as well as pain medicine. Dr. Murakami’s treatments include hands-on healing treatments (osteopathy, acupuncture), integrative medicine consultations, regenerative medicine (stem cell therapy and platelet rich plasma) and interventional pain procedures.
Recent Talks and Publications
- 2019: Changing the Life Quality for your Pain Patients. Invited Lecture to American Medical Women’s Association.
- 2019: Thinking Outside the Box for your Pain Patients. Invited Lecture to Bay Area Mid-Level Providers.
- 2018: Regenerative Medicine: Applications, Integrative Medicine & Future Investigations. AIHM Lecture.
- 2018: Battlefield Acupuncture to Treat Low Back Pain in the Emergency Department. American Journal of Emergency Medicine.
- 2018: Spinal Cord Stimulator Complications. Challenging Cases and Complication in Pain Medicine.
- 2018: Piriformis Syndrome. Musculoskeletal Conditions from Head to Toe: A Diagnostic and Treatment Guide for Primary Care Physicians.
- Ear Acupuncture for Immediate Pain Relief – A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Pain Medicine.
- Auricular Acupuncture in Emergency Department Treatment of Acute Pain. Annals of Emergency Medicine.
- Acupuncture Analgesia: A Review of Central and Peripheral Mechanisms. Neuroimaging of Pain.
- Other Publications: Linked-In
Dual Board-Certified: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Pain Medicine
- UC San Diego: Pain Fellowship
- Mount Sinai Hospital: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Residency
- Alameda County Medical Center: Preliminary Internship Year
- Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine: Medical Education