The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center

About The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center

The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center is a multidisciplinary outpatient practice that has been serving patients since 1986. The clinic has five locations in Englewood, Fort Lee, and West New York, New Jersey, as well as Bardonia and Riverdale, New York. According to the website, the practice focuses on diagnosing and treating sports, spine, orthopedic, and neuromuscular conditions, with an emphasis on non-operative care. Its services include physical therapy, occupational and hand therapy, balance therapy, pain medicine, physiatry and rehabilitation medicine, osteopathic manipulative treatment, medical acupuncture, EMG and nerve conduction testing, supervised fitness, spinal injections, ultrasound guided injections, prolotherapy, platelet rich plasma, viscosupplementation, Shockwave Therapy, StemWave, and Botox/Xeomin.

The center describes its care model as coordinated and team-based, with physiatrists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists communicating regularly about patient treatment. Its physical therapy services are presented as individualized and evidence-based, using treatment plans built around each person’s goals. The site also notes that physical therapy may include manual techniques, therapeutic exercise, electrical stimulation, stretching, and education in biomechanics and ergonomics. Occupational and hand therapy is geared toward helping people recover from hand and upper body injuries related to accidents, surgery, chronic illness, pain, or repetitive stress, with attention to strength, range of motion, swelling, scar management, and daily function. The physician team listed on the website includes Adeel Ahmad, MD, Rebecca Brown, MD, Nathaniel Montag, DO, Philip Tasca, MD, Elizabeth Baker, MD, Christopher Bekampis, DO, Victor Bucalo, MD, Paul Jendrek, MD, Donald Liss, MD, Jeff Pavell, DO, and Kara Suche, MD. Physical therapy services are directed by Joe Leibowitz, and Elizabeth Baker, MD is noted for board-certified expertise in physical medicine and rehabilitation, electrodiagnostic medicine, and pain medicine, with a nonsurgical focus on spinal and musculoskeletal conditions.

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