Dr. Herbert L Thornhill MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
506 Lenox Avenue Wp-522 New York NY, 10037About
Dr. Herbert Thornhill is a physiatrist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Thornhill is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Thornhill 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. Thornhill 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.
Education and Training
Howard Univ Coll of Med, Washington Dc 1955
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Bilateral below-knee amputations: experience with 80 patients.
- Burns: causes and risk factors.
- Neuropathic arthropathy (Charcot forefeet) in alcoholics.
- Some approaches to the problem of poverty as a factor in the pathogenesis of motor disability.
- Experience with the water mattress in a large city hospital.
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