Dr. Elizabeth Pegg Frates M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
133 Lowell Rd Wellesley Hills MA, 02481About
Dr. Elizabeth Frates is a physiatrist practicing in Wellesley Hills, MA. Dr. Frates is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Frates 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. Frates 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
Stanford Univ Sch Of Med- Stanford Ca 1996
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spastic paretic stiff-legged gait: biomechanics of the unaffected limb.
- Hip hiking and circumduction: quantitative definitions.
- Post-stroke violent adventitial movement responsive to levo-dopa/carbi-dopa therapy.
- Dyspnea: an unusual presentation of posttraumatic syringomyelia.
- Lifestyle medicine consulting walking meetings for sustained weight loss.
Awards
- 1996-Excellence in Research presented at the Western student Research
- Chief Resident
- 1999-The Manuel J. Lipson Award
- 2000-Excellence in Research presented bt the Department of Physical
- Medicine & Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School.
- Excellence in Tutorial Facilitation at Harvard Medical School
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