Dr. Strax is Vice President for Medical Rehabilitation and Medical Director of JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute as well as professor and Chairman at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In 2005, Dr. Strax received the AAPM&R Frank H. Krusen Award. He has concentrated on pediatric and geriatric rehabilitation. Through his work in both arenas, he discerned [...]
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Dr. Esquenazi is currently working to advance the use of technology to treat spastic equinovarus foot – a common condition caused by neurological difficulties that positions the foot toe-down and turned-in. “Some 20 leg muscle combinations – in the posterior or anterior compartments of the leg, or a combination of both – can produce this [...]
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Dr. Meier practices at the Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver where he focuses on rehabilitating complex limb dysfunction emanating from amputation, tumors, burns and nerve injuries. Best known for his work on amputation rehabilitation, his research into the subspecialty began during his time at MossRehab from 1970 to 1973 as resident and chief resident. [...]
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Dr. Braddom is a physiatrist with the Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center in Red Bank, New Jersey. He edits what is arguably the most popular rehabilitation textbook: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. For two pivotal years from 1989 to 1991, Dr. Braddom acted as MossRehab’s Vice President of Medical Affairs and Einstein’s Chairman of the [...]
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Dr. Grabois is celebrating his 25th year as Department Chairman of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. During his prominent career, Dr. Grabois has specialized in pain management with an emphasis on acute and chronic pain syndrome. He was a resident and chief resident at MossRehab from 1969 to 1972. [...]
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Dr. Reinstein has been the Medical Director of the comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation unit and the Associate Physiatrist-in-Chief at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore for 20 years. Throughout his career, he has been heavily involved in organizational medicine at the national level. A resident and then chief resident at MossRehab from 1970 to 1973, Dr. Reinstein cites [...]
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Twice-retired, Dr. Glass now donates her medical expertise at the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic in Stuart, Florida. Dr. Glass acted as MossRehab’s Assistant Medical Director from 1968 to 1970 and Medical Director from 1970 to 1982. Supportive teamwork at MossRehab, Dr. Glass said, fueled the progress of many innovative programs. During her tenure, the MossRehab [...]
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Using peripheral nerves that branch from the spinal cord, the central nervous system tells a muscle to contract by sending signals to activate that muscle. Nerve and muscle connect at a neuromuscular junction and the nerve signal travels across to the muscle in the form of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. BOTOX injections inhibit acetylcholine release from [...]
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Dr. Mayer has treated 30 of the 36 patients with surprising results. He expected a better response rate from the targeted technique. Instead, both methods delivered equally positive results despite the lower BOTOX dosages. He suspects that it may not be the total number of BOTOX units delivered to a site that’s important but the [...]
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Finding better treatments for brain-injured patients is its own reward, says Nathaniel Mayer, MD, Director, MossRehab and Albert Einstein Medical Center Institute for Mobility Evaluation and Treatment about his BOTOX® and spasticity research. For patients with problems using muscles in their limbs or neck area, Dr. Mayer administers multiple BOTOX botulinum toxin type A injections [...]
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Dr. Esquenazi is equally committed to streamlining gait analysis technology for aligning prosthetics and orthotics. “The current state of the art in smaller clinics is a prosthetist or clinician watching the patient walk,” explains Dr. Esquenazi. “Results are subjective and inconsistent – clinician experience and patient subjectivity are just two of many variables.” In a [...]
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by William C. Walker, MD, Jennifer H. Marwitz, MA, Jeffrey S. Kreutzer, PhD, Tessa Hart, PhD, Thomas A. Novack, PhD.Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. OBJECTIVE: To further evaluate determinants of return to work (RTW) after traumatic brain injury (TBI), with focus on the relation between preinjury occupational category [...]
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