Dr. James W. Atchison DO
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
1600 SW Archer Rd Gainesville FL, 32610About
Dr. James Atchison is a physiatrist practicing in Gainesville, FL. Dr. Atchison is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Atchison 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. Atchison 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
Ohio Univ- Coll Of Osteo Med- Athens Oh 1987
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- Roadmap to physical medicine and rehabilitation: answers to medical students' questions about the field.
- The challenge of teaching rehabilitative care in medical school.
- Physicians' and patients' attitudes toward manual medicine: implications for continuing medical education.
- Compliance in pain rehabilitation: patient and provider perspectives.
- Hepatic encephalopathy mimicking stroke. A case report.
- Effect of eccentric strength testing on delayed-onset muscle pain.
- Patient-centered perspective on treatment outcomes in chronic pain.
- Investigating patient expectations and treatment outcome in a chronic low back pain population.
- Manipulation efficacy: Upper body.
- Effects of obesity on rehabilitation outcomes after orthopedic trauma.
- The impact of patients' gender, race, and age on health care professionals' pain management decisions: an online survey using virtual human technology.
- NSAIDs for musculoskeletal pain management:current perspectives and novel strategies to improve safety.
- The use of exercise in the elderly to enhance functional mobility and prevent falls.
- Obesity and low back pain: relationships and treatment.
- Treatment of facial pain by percutaneous injection of the Gasserian ganglion.
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