Dr. Richard D Allatt MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
550 W College Ave Bellefonte PA, 16823About
Dr. Richard Allatt is a physiatrist practicing in Bellefonte, PA. Dr. Allatt is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Allatt 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. Allatt 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
Mc Master Univ- Sch Of Med- Hamilton- Ont- Canada 1978
McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine 1978
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Reinforcement of subliminal flexion reflexes by transcranial magnetic stimulation of motor cortex in subjects with spinal cord injury.
- Afferent conditioning of motor evoked potentials following transcranial magnetic stimulation of motor cortex in normal subjects.
- Reinforcement of motor evoked potentials in patients with spinal cord injury.
- Reinforcement of motor evoked potentials by remote muscle contraction.
- Preclinical trial of 4-aminopyridine in patients with chronic spinal cord injury.
- Oxygen costs using a reciprocating gait orthosis in a paraplegic (T9) patient with a bilateral below-knee amputation: case report.
Treatments
- Arthritis
- Parkinson's Disease
- Stroke
- Osteoarthritis
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis (ms)
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Abnormal Gait
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