Dr. Jeffrey Alan Saal MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Pain Medicine
500 Arguello Street Suite 100 Redwood City CA, 94063About
Dr. Jeffrey Saal is a physiatrist practicing in Redwood City, CA. Dr. Saal is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Saal 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. Saal 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
Tulane Univ Sch of Med, New Orleans La 1975
Tulane University School of Medicine 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Management of chronic discogenic low back pain with a thermal intradiscal catheter. A preliminary report.
- Spinal injections: past, present and future.
- The new back school prescription: stabilization training. Part II.
- Human disc phospholipase A2 is inflammatory.
- Response to steroid and duration of radicular pain as predictors of surgical outcome.
- The sports medicine approach to occupational low back pain.
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation: lumbar stabilizing exercises for the nonoperative treatment of disc lesions.
- Common American football injuries.
- Dynamic muscular stabilization in the nonoperative treatment of lumbar pain syndromes.
- High levels of inflammatory phospholipase A2 activity in lumbar disc herniations.
- Rehabilitation of Football Players With Lumbar Spine Injury (Part 1 of 2).
- Rehabilitation of Football Players With Lumbar Spine Injury (Part 2 of 2).
- Natural history and nonoperative treatment of lumbar disc herniation.
- Consensus summary of the diagnosis and treatment of lumbar disc herniation.
- 1996 North American Spine Society presidential address.
Treatments
- Spondylolisthesis
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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