Dr. Margaret M. Portwood MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Pain Medicine
2825 J St Suite 435 Sacramento CA, 95816About
Dr. Margaret Portwood is a physiatrist practicing in Sacramento, CA. Dr. Portwood is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Portwood 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. Portwood 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
Or Hlth Sci Univ Sch of Med, Portland Or 1977
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The role of dietary fatty acids in children's behaviour and learning.
- Ischemic exercise test: failure to detect partial expression of McArdle's disease.
- Functional ability and equipment use among patients with neuromuscular disease.
- Upper vs lower extremity functional loss in neuromuscular disease.
- Ultrasound treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
- Upper extremity functional rating for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
- Effect of pentobarbital on contractility of mouse skeletal muscle.
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