Dr. Neil A. Segal MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Neil Segal is a physiatrist practicing in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Segal is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Segal 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. Segal 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- Two configurations of static magnetic fields for treating rheumatoid arthritis of the knee: a double-blind clinical trial.
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura; report of a case.
- Giant cell lesions of the jaw.
- Absolute reduction in lower limb lean body mass in Japanese women with knee osteoarthritis.
- Other surgical techniques for osteoarthritis.
- How gender impacts career development and leadership in rehabilitation medicine: a report from the AAPM&R research committee.
- Considering industry-sponsored research.
- Correcting for fat mass improves DXA quantification of quadriceps specific strength in obese adults aged 50-59 years.
- Weight, rather than obesity distribution, explains peak external knee adduction moment during level gait.
- Association of dynamic joint power with functional limitations in older adults with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.
- Rehabilitation research: we should care and we should act.
- Obesity and knee osteoarthritis are not associated with impaired quadriceps specific strength in adults.
- Health coverage and its relation to the prevalence and intensity of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.
- Is quadriceps muscle weakness a risk factor for incident or progressive knee osteoarthritis?
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