Dr. Lee R. Wolfer MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
901 Nevin Ave Richmond CA, 94801About
Dr. Lee Wolfer is a physiatrist practicing in Richmond, CA. Dr. Wolfer is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Wolfer focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Wolfer can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Systematic review of lumbar provocation discography in asymptomatic subjects with a meta-analysis of false-positive rates.
- Functional anatomy and pathophysiology of axial low back pain: disc, posterior elements, sacroiliac joint, and associated pain generators.
- An assessment of a new navigatable percutaneous disc decompression device (l'DISQ) through histologic evaluation and thermo-mapping in human cadaveric discs.
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