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Official announcements from Padda Institute Center for Interventional Pain Management. They also cover the affiliated practices and nonprofit work that Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP takes part in. Releases go out through Nectar Media Group’s EIN Presswire newsroom.

Each announcement is published on the site it is about. Releases below that belong to an affiliated practice link to that practice’s own newsroom. They are not copied here.

From Padda Institute

October 7, 2026

Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD Puts the New Low-Carb Guideline to Work in Pain Care: Medicines Change Before Pain Does

The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners’ 2026 guideline shows how to start low-carb safely. Insulin and diabetes drugs change in the first days, and NSAIDs, narcotics and some pain antidepressants can worsen low sodium during the start. Dr. Padda explains why pain patients need that playbook most.

Read the announcement  ·  Original release

October 5, 2026

Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD Publishes The Dopamine Brain: Dopamine Is Not the Pleasure Chemical We Thought

The fourth volume of The Brain. Dopamine tells you what to get. It does not tell you what to enjoy. The book follows that one reversal through food, addiction, Parkinson’s therapy and the intensive care unit. 401 pages, 31 chapters, 98 figures.

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Also carried by AP News, The National Law Review, KTVI FOX 2 St. Louis, KOLR 10 Springfield and KSN/KODE 12 Joplin.

September 21, 2026

Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD Publishes The Pained Brain, Arguing Chronic Pain Is a Metabolic Disease the Scan Cannot See

The second volume of The Brain, coauthored with Dr. KrisJay Fucanan, MD. It treats chronic pain as a disease of the central nervous system, fueled by metabolic inflammation. It is not a local defect waiting for a local repair. 479 pages, 22 chapters, 2,291 documented references.

Read the announcement  ·  Original release

Also carried by AP News, The National Law Review and KTVI FOX 2 St. Louis.

August 31, 2026

International Overdose Awareness Day: Padda Institute Publishes Its Own Opioid Numbers

Practice-reported opioid outcomes, released on International Overdose Awareness Day. The average new patient arrives above 90 MME per day. 21% are completely weaned within 90 days and 34% within one year. Most of those who cannot be fully weaned are brought below 30 MME. The point: tapering and treating are not the same thing.

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Also carried by AP News, the Columbia Daily Tribune and KTVI FOX 2 (St. Louis).

August 7, 2026

“First Year They Sleep”: Valor Villages Bets on Slow Repair — For Veterans With PTSD, and for the Ground They Work

Horticulture retraining and prairie restoration as long-term recovery work for veterans living with PTSD. Dr. Padda serves as Chief Medical Officer of Valor Villages.

Read the announcement  ·  Original release  ·  Valor Medica newsroom

March 1, 2026

Padda Institute Relocates to Expanded State-of-the-Art Facility

The move to 4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 100 — a nearly 18,000-square-foot facility. It brings interventional pain management, accident and injury rehab, post-concussion treatment and metabolic health services under one roof.

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Also carried by The National Law Review and Economic Policy Times.

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