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While our patients come from a vast majority of backgrounds, they have one thing in common.
They have decided to confront their pain and disability, and take control of life again.
From the patient with a serious disorder of the musculoskeletal system resulting in extensive functional limitations, to the patient suffering low back pain, to the patient with a running injury, our aim is to treat the total person in a total life context.
Although each patient's needs, treatment and progress are different the case of Jackie, a workplace accident victim, typifies many of the patients treated at our centers. Jackie was in her early 30's when she was seriously injured by a fall at work. Her accident left her with paralysis in her right leg, weakness in the left hand, and severe, often incapacitating headaches. Medical treatment and hospitalization over several years did little, if any good and she relied on pain medication to get on with her day-to-day life. Eventually, Jackie was seen at the Rehabilitation Medicine Group and reports that her improvement has been "tremendous". "Before treatment I couldn't move my ankle up and down and now I can" she reports." They've gotten my muscles to work, and the therapy really relieves my pain and loosens me up." In Jackie's case, a program of ultrasound, interferential electrical stimulation, and supervised exercise, not to mention her own hard work, have helped her gain significantly the mobility she lost in the accident.
While our patients come from a vast majority of backgrounds, they have one thing in common.
They have decided to confront their pain and disability, and take control of life again.
From the patient with a serious disorder of the musculoskeletal system resulting in extensive functional limitations, to the patient suffering low back pain, to the patient with a running injury, our aim is to treat the total person in a total life context.
Although each patient's needs, treatment and progress are different the case of Jackie, a workplace accident victim, typifies many of the patients treated at our centers. Jackie was in her early 30's when she was seriously injured by a fall at work. Her accident left her with paralysis in her right leg, weakness in the left hand, and severe, often incapacitating headaches. Medical treatment and hospitalization over several years did little, if any good and she relied on pain medication to get on with her day-to-day life. Eventually, Jackie was seen at the Rehabilitation Medicine Group and reports that her improvement has been "tremendous". "Before treatment I couldn't move my ankle up and down and now I can" she reports." They've gotten my muscles to work, and the therapy really relieves my pain and loosens me up." In Jackie's case, a program of ultrasound, interferential electrical stimulation, and supervised exercise, not to mention her own hard work, have helped her gain significantly the mobility she lost in the accident.
"We don't consider a patient cured when they are restored to a minimum level of function... a patient is cured when they can return to what they enjoy doing without having to focus on their pain or disability" says Dr. Kramberg.