Dr. Rhythm Gumber

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 Dr. Rhythm Gumber is a mindful and innovative Board-Certified General Practitioner with Focused
practice in Hospital medicine and Chronic Pain Management. Rhythm completed his residency in Family
Medicine at the University of Manitoba. He also finished 1600 hours of preceptor guided training in
Interventional pain required for change of scope of practice under College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario. He currently works as Staff Hospitalist at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, as a Pain
Medicine Consultant at Burlington Pain Care and is also an Associate professor at McMaster University.

Being an active advocate for Chronic Pain Management, Rhythm has taken extra training in the field of
Pain Medicine from Harvard, University of Toronto, and McMaster University. He is currently also
pursuing an MSc in Pain Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He has special interest in management
of Neck pain, Back pain, Osteoarthritis, Headache disorders, Fibromyalgia, Neuropathic pain, and Sports
injuries. Rhythm likes to use various strategies such as ultrasound-guided interventional approaches,
multimodal analgesia, intranasal ketamine-based protocols, neuro functional acupuncture and
mindfulness based chronic pain management in a multidisciplinary team-based environment under
biopsychosocial model of care.

As a Hospitalist, Rhythm has special interest in preventative Cardiology and Respirololgy, Point of Care
Ultrasonography, and is member of Schwartz Rounds committee dedicated for staff well-being.

In his free time, Rhythm loves spending time with his family, is an avid tennis player and lately nurturing
his skills as a rookie guitarist (still searching for rhythm though)!