Undersea and Hyperbaric Emergency Medicine
A specialist who treats decompression illness and diving accident cases and uses hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat such conditions as carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, non-healing wounds, tissue damage from radiation and burns, and bone infections. This specialist also serves as a consultant to other physicians in all aspects of hyperbaric chamber operations, and assesses risks and applies appropriate standards to prevent disease and disability in divers and other persons working in altered atmospheric conditions.
Undersea And Hyperbaric Emergency Doctors in Grand Junction, CO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Physiatry)
St. Mary's Hyperbaric Medical Services is a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Physiatry) practice in Grand Junction, CO
with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in treating medical conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons.
Physiatrists at St. Mary's Hyperbaric Medical Services perform
diagnostic imaging, testing, assessment, and treatment of disorders and injuries related to chronic joint pain, spinal injury, athletic injury, congenital birth defect, traumatic injury, and age-related pain conditions. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Physiatry) is
a medical specialty focused on diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses related to muscle, joint spine, nerve, bone, and neurological disorders. Significant diseases and conditions treated at
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Physiatry) practices include spinal cord injury, pulled and torn muscles, nerve disorders, fibromyalgia, athletic injury, chronic joint and muscle pain, arthritis, and other disorders affecting the body's muscles, joints, and nerves.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Physiatry)
practices include CT, x-ray, and MRI imaging, nerve conduction testing, spinal injections, prolotherapy, nerve and muscle biopsy, acupuncture, fitting of prosthetics and orthotics, impairment assessment, patient and parent education, and ultrasound guided corrective procedures.
Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also referred to as rehabilitation medicine, is the medical specialty concerned with diagnosing, evaluating, and treating patients with physical disabilities. These disabilities may arise from conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system such as neck and back pain, sports injuries, or other painful conditions affecting the limbs, such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Alternatively, the disabilities may result from neurological trauma or disease such as spinal cord injury, head injury or stroke. A physician certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation is often called a physiatrist. The primary goal of the physiatrist is to achieve maximal restoration of physical, psychological, social and vocational function through comprehensive rehabilitation. Pain management is often an important part of the role of the physiatrist. For diagnosis and evaluation, a physiatrist may include the techniques of electromyography to supplement the standard history, physical, x-ray and laboratory examinations. The physiatrist has expertise in the appropriate use of therapeutic exercise, prosthetics (artificial limbs), orthotics and mechanical and electrical devices.
Physiatrists in Grand Junction, CO
Aerospace Medicine
St. Mary's Hyperbaric Medical Services is an Aerospace Medicine practice in Grand Junction, CO
with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in addressing conditions stimulated in outer space and aviation environments.
Aerospace Medicine Doctors at St. Mary's Hyperbaric Medical Services perform
diagnostic testing and treatments on patients that operate air and space vehicles. Aerospace Medicine is
the healthcare and promotion of passenger and crew member safety and performance. Significant diseases and conditions treated at
Aerospace Medicine practices include common ailments like high blood pressure and injuries caused by emergency ejections or radiation exposure.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Aerospace Medicine
practices include annual physical examinations, blood pressure management, and injury healing.
Aerospace medicine focuses on the clinical care, research, and operational support of the health, safety, and performance of crewmembers and passengers of air and space vehicles, together with the support personnel who assist operation of such vehicles. This population often works and lives in remote, isolated, extreme, or enclosed environments under conditions of physical and psychological stress. Practitioners strive for an optimal human-machine match in occupational settings rich with environmental hazards and engineering countermeasures.
Aerospace Medicine Doctors in Grand Junction, CO
