Patricia Zheng, MD
Associate Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery
School of Medicine

My recent research projects have included building mobile applications to more granularly track outcomes after spinal injections and building a national cohort of chronic low back pain to better phenotype biopsychosocial features capable of influencing outcome.

• Evidence-based interventions to treat chronic low back pain: treatment selection for a personalized medicine approach.
  Pain reports 2022 Mauck MC, Aylward AF, Barton CE, Birckhead B, Carey T, Dalton DM, Fields AJ, Fritz J, Hassett AL, Hoffmeyer A, Jones SB, McLean SA, Mehling WE, O'Neill CW, Schneider MJ, Williams DA, Zheng P, Wasan AD
• Compensatory biomechanics and spinal loading during dynamic maneuvers in patients with chronic low back pain.
  European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 2022 Nyayapati P, Booker J, Wu PI, Theologis A, Dziesinski L, O'Neill C, Zheng P, Lotz JC, Matthew RP, Bailey JF
• Objective features of sedentary time and light activity differentiate people with low back pain from healthy controls: a pilot study.
  The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society 2021 Tomkins-Lane C, Sun R, Muaremi A, Zheng P, Mohan M, Ith MA, Smuck M
• What does the patient with back pain want? A comparison of patient preferences and physician assumptions.
  The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society 2021 Smuck M, Barrette K, Martinez-Ith A, Sultana G, Zheng P
• Radiofrequency Ablation for Chronic Hip Pain: A Comprehensive, Narrative Review.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2021 Cheney CW, Ahmadian A, Brennick C, Zheng P, Mattie R, McCormick ZL, Nagpal A
• Evaluation of human cartilage endplate composition using MRI: Spatial variation, association with adjacent disc degeneration, and in vivo repeatability.
  Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society 2020 Wang L, Han M, Wong J, Zheng P, Lazar AA, Krug R, Fields AJ
• Variability among methods and timing of pain assessment tools for tracking improvement of lumbar stenosis patients after surgery.
  The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society 2020 Tomkins-Lane C, Zheng PZ, Sun R, Smuck M
• Digital Care for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: 10,000 Participant Longitudinal Cohort Study.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2020 Bailey JF, Agarwal V, Zheng P, Smuck M, Fredericson M, Kennedy DJ, Krauss J
• Pain and Functional Outcomes After Sacroiliac Joint Injection with Anesthetic and Corticosteroid at Six Months, Stratified by Anesthetic Response and Physical Exam Maneuvers.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2020 Schneider BJ, Ehsanian R, Huynh L, Levin J, Zheng P, Kennedy DJ
• Radiofrequency Ablation for Posterior Sacroiliac Joint Complex Pain: A Narrative Review.
  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation 2019 Yang AJ, McCormick ZL, Zheng PZ, Schneider BJ
• Challenges in Diagnosing Sacroiliac Joint Pain: A Narrative Review.
  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation 2019 Schneider BJ, Rosati R, Zheng P, McCormick ZL
• Trends in steroid agent and diluent choices for epidural steroid injections: a survey of Spine Intervention Society physicians.
  Regional anesthesia and pain medicine 2019 Clements N, Vydra D, Cushman DM, Nagpal A, Julia J, Zheng P, McCormick ZL
• Image-Guided Sacroiliac Joint Injections: an Evidence-based Review of Best Practices and Clinical Outcomes.
  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation 2019 Zheng P, Schneider BJ, Yang A, McCormick ZL
• Intra-articular Steroids vs Saline for Lumbar Z-Joint Pain: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2019 Kennedy DJ, Fraiser R, Zheng P, Huynh L, Levin J, Smuck M, Schneider BJ
• Advice to give advice.
  The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society 2017 Zheng PZ, Smuck M
• A minimum of 5-year follow-up after lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections in patients with lumbar radicular pain due to intervertebral disc herniation.
  The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society 2017 Kennedy DJ, Zheng PZ, Smuck M, McCormick ZL, Huynh L, Schneider BJ
• Objective measurement of function following lumbar spinal stenosis decompression reveals improved functional capacity with stagnant real-life physical activity.
  The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society 2017 Smuck M, Muaremi A, Zheng P, Norden J, Sinha A, Hu R, Tomkins-Lane C
• App Development for Therapeutic Exercise.
  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation 2017 Zheng P, Leff G, Ith MA, Smuck M
• Stagnant Physical Therapy Referral Rates Alongside Rising Opioid Prescription Rates in Patients With Low Back Pain in the United States 1997-2010.
  Spine 2017 Zheng P, Kao MC, Karayannis NV, Smuck M
• Variability Among Pain and Function Assessment Tools for Tracking Improvement of Lumbar Stenosis Patients After Surgery.
  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation 2016 Zheng PZ, Lane C, Smuck M
• Safety of epidural steroid injections.
  Expert opinion on drug safety 2016 Schneider B, Zheng P, Mattie R, Kennedy DJ
• Seated Tai Chi to alleviate pain and improve quality of life in individuals with spinal cord disorder.
  The journal of spinal cord medicine 2016 Shem K, Karasik D, Carufel P, Kao MC, Zheng P
• Survey of Asian patients with hepatitis B infection: limited knowledge of transmission and screening of family members.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2015 Vijayan T, Zheng P, Nguyen C, Brown AM, Chen YW, Peters MG
• Assessment and management of back pain.
  JAMA internal medicine 2014 Kao MC, Zheng P, Smuck M
• Demographic factors affect willingness to register as an organ donor more than a personal relationship with a transplant candidate.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2014 Regalia K, Zheng P, Sillau S, Aggarwal A, Bellevue O, Fix OK, Prinz J, Dunn S, Biggins SW
• Duration of fluoroscopic-guided spine interventions and radiation exposure is increased in overweight patients.
  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation 2013 Smuck M, Zheng P, Chong T, Kao MC, Geisser ME
• Impact of student-run clinics on preclinical sociocultural and interprofessional attitudes: a prospective cohort analysis.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2012 Sheu L, Lai CJ, Coelho AD, Lin LD, Zheng P, Hom P, Diaz V, O'Sullivan PS
• Impact of preclinical exposure to organ donation on knowledge and attitudes of medical students.
  Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) 2012 Zheng P, Sammann A, Qiu M, Lee R, O'Sullivan P, Roberts J
• Learning through service: student perceptions on volunteering at interprofessional hepatitis B student-run clinics.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2011 Sheu LC, Zheng P, Coelho AD, Lin LD, O'Sullivan PS, O'Brien BC, Yu AY, Lai CJ
• Reduced effectiveness of standard recruitment for deceased organ donor registration: the need for population-specific recruitment materials.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2011 Zheng P, Kornfield R, Olmo C, Guy J, Inadomi J, Biggins SW
• Modulation of acute diarrheal illness by persistent bacterial infection.
  Infection and immunity 2008 McBee ME, Zheng PZ, Rogers AB, Fox JG, Schauer DB