Dr. Carol Jeanne Showalter MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
280 Smith Ave N Suite 737 Saint Paul MN, 55102About
Dr. Carol Showalter is a physiatrist practicing in Saint Paul, MN. Dr. Showalter is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Showalter 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. Showalter 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.
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Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Integration of physical medicine and rehabilitation into a medical school curriculum: musculoskeletal evaluation and rehabilitation.
- Renal response to atrial natriuretic factor is modulated by intrarenal angiotensin II.
- Sporadic inclusion body myositis: counts of different types of abnormal fibers.
- Acute quadriplegic myopathy: analysis of myosin isoforms and evidence for calpain-mediated proteolysis.
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