Stephen Michael Decker PT
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
83 Franklin Tpke Waldwick NJ, 07463About
Dr. Stephen Decker is a physiatrist practicing in Waldwick, NJ. Dr. Decker is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Decker 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. Decker 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
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 1980
Provider Details
Treatments
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Rotator Cuff Syndrome
- Pain
- Tendonitis
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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