Professional Staff

Our staff is one of the most experienced in the world. Each member has received extensive training and is an expert is his/her field. Staff are all full time and include:

Medical Director

• Responsible for overall standards of medical care and the clinical treatment program.
• Evaluates all comprehensive program patients for musculoskeletal problems prior to or after admission.
• Supervises patients' treatment plans and team conferences.
• Provides direction to all clinical staff and holds weekly medical director rounds.
• Makes daily patient rounds.
• Provides pain medicine consultation.

Doctors of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation:

• Assess rehabilitation potential.
• Recommend therapy on physical medicine management.
• Supervise all physical medicine treatments.
• Provide daily clinical supervision of the therapies.
• Provide patient education.
• Provide physical medicine and rehabilitation for all comprehensive program patients.
• Perform electrical studies of muscles and nerves.

Physician Assistant:

• Screens patient applications, medical records and clearances.
• Works in collaboration with physicians to provide physical examinations, diagnosis, treatment, and design tapering plans.
• Oversees and coordinates clinical activities and follows patients to facilitate therapy participation.
• Participates and conducts rounds and conferences.
• Provides educational sessions.

Family Medicine Physician:

• Clears patients for therapy.
• Follows patients if underlying or complex medical problems in order to facilitate participation in rehabilitation.
• Provides patient education on sleep disturbance, medications, etc.
• Provides nutritional and weight control care and counseling if needed.

Psychiatrist:

• Evaluates patients for complex underlying pain related problems.
• Designs detoxification / tapering schedules.
• Provides psychotropic medications management.
• Serves as a consultant to psychology staff and other team members.
• Provides patient education on sleep disturbance, medications, etc.

Psychologists:

• Evaluate patients for pain related behavioral issues.
• Develop behavioral plan of care.
• Manage behavioral crises.
• Support patients during treatment and detoxification protocols.
• Provide individual, group, and family counseling.
• Serves as consultants to team members.

Pain Management Services:

• Pharmacology Management (Medication Management)
• Neurosugical Procedures
• Physical Medicine Consults
• Rehabilitation Services (Full Program / Outpatient Rehabilitation Services)

Physical Therapy:

• Works in consultation with the Physiatrists and all other physicians.
• Evaluates & analyzes conditions of the musculoskeletal system.
• Develops and applies treatment interventions to restore function and relieve pain.
• Implements individualized therapeutic exercise regiments.
• Provides education to patients and family members promoting their active involvement in treatment.
• Reports to Medical Director and RCRC physicians regarding findings, progress, and problems.
• Supervises motor dysfunction evaluation and treatment protocols.

Occupational Therapy:

• Works in consultation with the Physiatrists and all other physicians.
• Evaluates and analyze activities of daily living and function.
• Notes changes in body usage which pain has created.
• Develops specific treatment plan for good body mechanics, pacing, energy saving, and safety techniques.
• Performs assessment of home and work environment and makes recommendations.
• Works with vocational counselors, ergonomists to develop and implement job simulation techniques.
• Provides instructions to prevent re-injury.

Biofeedback Therapy:

• Teaches muscle relaxation.
• Teaches patients to reduce muscle tension by use of various feedback mechanism.
• Conducts individual and group relaxation training sessions.
• Corrects posture and maladaptive gait.
• Works with patients during therapy to enforce proper body mechanics.
• Evaluates motor dysfunction and participates in the treatment.

Vocational Counseling:

• Provides services to patients of working age or who have work-related injuries.
• Assesses patients to determine work-related issues.
• Provides information to treating team regarding job tasks and demands that can be incorporated into physical rehabilitation plan of care.
• Counsels patients concerning work related issues.
• Participates in the design of therapeutic job simulation in consultation with other disciplines.
• Provides vocational rehabilitation counseling.
• Acts as a liaison to insurance carriers, rehabilitation specialists, employers, physicians and other professionals.
• Assists patients with instructions in job seeking skills, resume writing, application and interview techniques.
• Performs career planning, vocational testing, and job development.

Ergonomics:

• Staff members are full-time to the Team.
• Analyzes human performance and functional status of patients.
• Assists in the development and provision of job simulation.
• Health and safety activities.
• Conducts motion analysis, balance assessment, and motion-time studies.
• Conducts job site analysis.
• Provides functional capacity assessment, work capacity assessment, post offer screening, and job placement assistance.
• Evaluate and recommends technological innovations in rehabilitation.
• ADA compliance assistance.

Nursing:

• Assesses each patient and develops plan of care.
• Provides case management and overall coordinator of care to all patients.
• Provides nursing care and supervision of patients.
• Manages detoxification protocols.
• Provides 24 hour observation and nursing care.
• Consults with other Team members.
• Provides counseling and education to patients and families.

Case Management Services:

• Overall coordination of plan of treatment.
• Liaison to referrers, outside agencies, rehabilitation specialists, insurance company physicians, and other.
• Pre-admission coordination.
• Resource to prospective patients and others.
• Discharge planning and follow-up.

Additional Services:

• Independent medical consultation.
• Sports medicine and rehabilitation.
• Educational presentations and seminars.