Summit Orthopedic Specialists' physical medicine and rehabilitation program helps restore movement and function to people disabled by diseases or injuries. Our physical medicine and rehabilitation program, also known as physiatry, employs physical agents and therapeutic exercise in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disorders that cause pain and disability.
Summit Orthopedic Specialists' physical medicine and rehabilitation program helps restore movement and function to people disabled by diseases or injuries. Our physical medicine and rehabilitation program, also known as physiatry, employs physical agents and therapeutic exercise in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disorders that cause pain and disability.
Types of conditions that are treated by physiatry include:
• Low back pain
• Neck pain
• Disc, facet and nerve pain
• Musculoskeletal and myofascial pain
• Occupational injury
• Postoperative pain
• Sciatica
• Sports injuries
• Osteoarthritis
At Summit, we use novel, cutting-edge rehabilitation cutting-edge techniques in rehabilitative care, such as platelet rich plasma therapy and stem cell injections. Treatments for pain and injury may include:
• Medications
• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Braces
• Ultrasound-guided injections, such as platelet rich plasma therapy and stem cell injections.
• Electromyography
For more information about the physical medicine and rehabilitation program at Summit Orthopedic Specialists or to schedule an appointment, please call (916) 965-4000.
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