Dr. Thomas Etges, MD

Dr. Etges is a quirky, well-intentioned & knowledgeable doctor. To be frank, although I love unique & quirky people, I am not used to interacting with doctors who are quirky, and I was a bit nervous in the beginning. He tells a lot of long-winded stories & anecdotes. One must concentrate, be assertive to interrupt, & be willing to listen. However, he is the only individual to treat my frozen shoulder from an "outside-the-box" way of thinking & quite bluntly, I believe the man to be a bit of a genius. I had struggled with frozen shoulder since March 2020. I didn't meet Dr. Etges until November that same year, so I struggled in EXTREME pain for 9 months! A visit to Slocum was defeating--detached attitude from dr. and steroid shot which did little. Dr. Etges gave me 2 prolotherapy cocktail shots a month apart (a special mix which he can explain), and made suggestions to my PT. By January, I had regained 90% of my shoulder movement and now Feb, 2021, I am at full recovery.

Not impressed with this doctor. He claims to be a functional medicine doctor but in reality he is a just the same as other conventional doctors. he is not knowledgeable. It is also very difficult to communicate with him or his staff off the session time as he doesn't even have a patient portal.