Dr. Derek Philip Watson MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
11200 GOVERNOR MANLY WAY STE 309 RALEIGH NC, 27614About
Dr. Derek Watson is a physiatrist practicing in Wake Forest, NC. Dr. Watson is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Watson 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. Watson 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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Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The effect of the mite Myocoptes musculinus (C. L. Koch 1840) on the skin of the white laboratory mouse and its control.
- Dementia as a neuropsychological consequence of chronic occupational exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
- Staining pollen tubes of apple.
- Ergoline Alkaloids in Tropical Wood Roses.
- Diagnosis and management of headache in adults: summary of SIGN guideline.
- Reconstruction of the cheek using a "suspended" radial forearm free flap.
- Use of cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive for closing facial lacerations in children.
- "Let's twist again".
- Aspiration cytology and its relevance to the diagnosis of solid tumors of the breast.
- Patient accidents.
- Use of anti-D in an accident and emergency department.
- The relationship between handedness, mechanism of injury and which hand injured.
- The homeless in the emergency department: a patient profile.
- Ruptured diaphragm: the latent phase.
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