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The Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation delivers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care to
adults and children with impairments due to traumatic injury and
disease.Our department is a
dynamic group of individuals with varied backgrounds and skills from which our residents benefit. We have board- certified
pediatric physiatrists, a board-certified spinal cord injury specialist,
American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine-certified specialists, and
an acupuncturist, as well as pain, head injury, stroke, amputee
and geriatric specialists. The
faculty are actively involved in research on spasticity, adaptive
equipment and rehabilitation technology for children, exercise, spinal
cord injury, and stroke rehabilitation. And they are dedicated to
teaching and working with residents one-on-one on all clinical
rotations. There are four to six hours a week of formal resident
lectures, journal clubs and clinical case conferences on
electro-diagnostics, gait analysis, sports medicine, ethics and practice
management.
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We evaluate and treat patients with:
- Acute and chronic pain
- Amputations and limb deficiencies
- Arthritis
- Cardiac disease
- Joint replacement surgery
needs
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Pulmonary disease
- Spinal cord injury
- Spina bifida
- Sports injuries
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
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Outpatient services include:
- Acupuncture
- Arthrocentesis and joint injections
-
Bacloflen Pump evaluation and
management
- Botulinum Toxin© and Synvisc©
injections
- Disability ratings
- Electromyography and nerve conduction
studies
- Exercise counseling and therapy
prescription
- Independent medical examinations
-
Interventional pain management
- Manual medicine
- Prosthetics and orthotics prescription
- Trigger point injections
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