Physical Medicine & Rehabilitations: Spinal Cord Injury Medicine

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitations

Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also referred to as rehabilitation medicine, is the medical specialty concerned with diagnosing, evaluating, and treating patients with physical disabilities. These disabilities may arise from conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system such as neck and back pain, sports injuries, or other painful conditions affecting the limbs, such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Alternatively, the disabilities may result from neurological trauma or disease such as spinal cord injury, head injury or stroke. A physician certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation is often called a physiatrist. The primary goal of the physiatrist is to achieve maximal restoration of physical, psychological, social and vocational function through comprehensive rehabilitation. Pain management is often an important part of the role of the physiatrist. For diagnosis and evaluation, a physiatrist may include the techniques of electromyography to supplement the standard history, physical, x-ray and laboratory examinations. The physiatrist has expertise in the appropriate use of therapeutic exercise, prosthetics (artificial limbs), orthotics and mechanical and electrical devices. *

Specialization: Spinal Cord Injury Medicine

A physician who addresses the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of traumatic spinal cord injury and non-traumatic etiologies of spinal cord dysfunction by working in an interdisciplinary manner. Care is provided to patients of all ages on a lifelong basis and covers related medical, physical, psychological and vocational disabilities and complications. **

Operator Assisted Physical Therapist Referral

Elsa Aguilera MD

Dr. Jung Ahn MD

Muhammad Akbar MD

Dr. Sheryce Andrews MD

Dr. Alan Anschel MD

Dr. Noel Arnau MD

Israel Aviles Hernandez MD

Junney Baeza Dager MD

Dr. Thomas Balazy MD

Glenn Balfour MD

Radhika Bapineedu MD

Dr. Venerando Batas MD

Dr. Gina Benaquista Desipio DO

Barbara Benevento MD

Dr. Angela Beninga DO,

Jeffrey Berliner DO

Dr. Amit Bhargava MD

William Bockenek MD

Dr. Christopher Boudakian DO

Monifa Brooks MD

Dr. Steven Brose DO

Dr. Robert Bruce MD

Thomas Bryce MD

Keith Burchill MD

Dr. Stephen Burns MD

Rhonda Caldwell-Williams MD

Patricia Canfield MD

Jaishree Capoor MD

Dr. Joseph Carlock MD

Dr. Inocencia Carrano MD

Deborah Caruso MD

Dr. Anthony Cassini MD

Dr. Denis Castillo MD

Miss Janice Chavez

Dr. Ling-Ling Cheng MD

Anthony Chiodo MD

Howard Choi MD, MPH

Dr. Sophia Chun MD

Dr. Sam Colachis JR. MD

Thomas Cowan MD

Deborah Crane MD

Graham Creasey MD

Dr. James Crumb MD

Dr. Arthur Cytryn MD

Anna Dacanay MD

Dr. Maria Dajoyag-Mejia MD

Dr. Kevin Dalal MD

Matthew Davis MD

Dr. George Deitrick MD

Dr. Anna Del Fabro MD

Araceli Denoga MD

Marguerite Diab MD

Trevor Dyson-Hudson MD

Dr. Byron Eddy DO

Miguel Escalon MD, MPH

Dr. Amanda Farag MD

Rosemarie Filart MD

Dr. Kirsten Fisher MD

Dr. Robert Frazho MD

Dr. Inigo Garcia-Zozaya MD

Susan Garstang MD

Dr. Kevin Gerhart MD/PHD

Carol Gibson-Gill MD

Dr. Lance Goetz MD

Dr. Gary Goldish MD

Dr. Peter Gorman MD

Marika Greiff MD

Samuel Grissom MD

Michael Gruba MD

Dr. Margaret Hammond MD

Dr. David Harris MD

Dr. Pamela Harris MD

Jennifer Harrison MD

Ramin Hazany MD

Dr. Mary Henzel MD, PHD

Dr. Gioia Herring-Williams MD

Dr. Christopher Hinnant MD

Dr. Chester Ho MD

Dr. Sally Holmes MD

Gin-Ming Hsu MD

Dr. Shih-Fong Hsu MD

Dr. Vincent Huang MD

Dr. Vidya Jayawardena MD

Dr. Mark Johansen MD

Dr. Penniford Justice MD

Dr. Michael Kelly DO

Corby Kessler MD

Steven Kirshblum MD

Dr. Sandra Kostyk MD

Dr. Paul Krabbenhoft MD

Eipe Kuruvila MD

Dr. Ihab Labatia MD

Dr. Sharmatie Lal MD

Dr. Ching Lam MD

Dr. Daniel Lammertse MD

Indira Lanig MD

Dr. Shamsi Lashgari-Saegh MD

Dr. Dallas Lea MD

Dr. Kenneth Lee MD

Dr. Edward Leroy JR. MD

Jesse Lieberman MD

Vernon Lin MD, PHD

Dr. Laurie Lindblom MD

Dr. James Little MD

Mark Livecchi MD

Dr. Roger Lueck MD

Dr. Gary Maerz MD

Dr. Amy Magnusson MD

Dr. Jorge Marcial MD

Dr. Ralph Marino MD

Susan Mcdowell MD

John Mcgarry MD

Melvin Mejia MD

Dr. John Merritt

Dorothy Miller MD

Kenneth Moore MD

Nithyanandini Namassivaya MD

Prabhakaran Nambiar MD

Dr. Patricia Nance MD

Fahima Nasar MD

Dr. Anne Nastasi MD

Gregory Nemunaitis MD

Dr. Austin Nobunaga MD

Ronald Novak MD

Steven Nussbaum MD

Dr. Merle Orr MD

Dr. Jonathan Ostrowski MD

Dr. Maria Fides Pacheco MD

Dr. Jai Park MD

Dr. Kenneth Parker MD

Dr. Kenneth Parsons MD

Javier Placer MD

Thomas Polisoto MD

Michael Priebe MD

Vandana Punj MD

Dr. Tahir Qazi MD

Dr. Tie Qian MD

Dr. Igor Rakovchik DO

Dr. Raheemunnisa Rawoof MD

Dr. Albert Recio MD

Gianna Maria Rodriguez MD

Dr. Randolph Roig MD

Dr. James Roper JR. MD

Dr. Robert Ruff MD, PHD

Lisa Ruppert MD

Dr. Rimma Ruvinskaya MD

Richard Salcido MD

Dr. Gregory Samson MD

Paul Sandford MD

Mehdi Sarkarati MD

Dr. Roy Sasaki MD

Nicole Sasson MD

Robert Savarese DO

Dr. William Scelza MD

Sandra Scheler-Mangiapia MD

Dr. Edward Schnitzer MD

Michael Schwartz MD

Subramani Seetharama MD

Dr. Farhad Sepahpanah MD

Dr. Dinesh Shah MD

Dr. Nasar Shahid MD

Dr. Wan Shin MD

David Shuster MD

Robert Sibley JR. MD

Thomas Silvestrini

Scott Standage MD

Dr. Katherine Stenson MD

Dr. Laura Stevens MD

Dr. Steven Stiens MD MS

Dr. Jonathan Strayer MD

Dr. Hemalatha Subbaratnam MD

Dr. Gabriel Sunn MD

Dr. Jelena Svircev MD

Ms. Amiee Tabatzky LAC

Dr. Luz Tastard MD

Dr. Luis Taveras MD

Katrina Thomas MD

Prof. Kurt Florian Thomas MD, MA, PHD, MS

Dr. Tanisha Toaston DO

Dr. Glenna Tolbert MD

Dr. Michelle Trbovich MD

Jeffrey Tubbs JR. MD

Viviane Ugalde MD

Dr. Jon Vandeventer MD

Kareen Velez MD

Dominique Vinh MD

Dr. Oksana Volshteyn MD

Dr. Heather Walker MD

Dr. Kenneth Waller MD

Dr. William Waring III MD

Dr. Paula Wegert MD

Dr. Kevin White MD

Dr. Itala Wickremasinghe MD

Theresa Wolfe MD

Dr. Jennifer Marie Yang MD

Dr. Woo Choong Yoon MD

Dr. Alan Young DO

Dr. Peter Yu MD

Dr. Kuno Zimmermann DO

Richard Zorowitz MD

* Source: American Board of Medical Specialties, 2007. www.abms.org [7/1/2007: definition changed, source added] Additional Resources: American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2007. http://www.abpmr.org/. Board certification for Medical Doctors (MDs) is provided by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. ACGME Accredited Residency Program Requirements: 1 year of training with 3-5 years in relevant specialty for a total of 4-6 years. ABMS Approved Subspecialty Certificate: (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
** Source: American Board of Medical Specialties, 2007. www.abms.org [7/1/2007: definition changed, source added] Additional Resources: American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2007. http://www.abpmr.org/. Board certification for Medical Doctors (MDs) is provided by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. ACGME Accredited Residency Program Requirements: 1 year of training with 3-5 years in relevant specialty for a total of 4-6 years. ABMS Approved Subspecialty Certificate: (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)