Dr. Charles E Giangarra MD
Sports Medicine Specialist | Sports Medicine
1600 Medical Center Dr Suite G500 Huntington WV, 25701About
Dr. Charles Giangarra is a Sports Medicine Family Practitioner in Huntington, WV. As a Sports Medicine Family Practitioner, Dr. Giangarra is trained to assess, diagnose, prevent, and treat sports injuries in patients of all ages, and refer those patients to further services if needed. Sports Medicine Family Practitioners must complete specialized training in order to help each patient maximize function and improve quality of life.
Education and Training
State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 1981
KERLAN - JOBE ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC 1988
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rotator cuff tears in adolescent athletes.
- Chronic exercise-induced leg pain in an athlete successfully treated with sympathetic block.
- Thoracic compression fracture in a basketball player.
- Multiple ligament knee injury: complications.
- Anterior capsulolabral reconstruction of the shoulder in athletes.
- Traumatic laryngeal fracture in a collegiate basketball player.
- Complex volar distal radioulnar joint dislocation occurring in a Galeazzi fracture.
- CURRENT CONCEPTS IN THE TREATMENT OF GROSS PATELLOFEMORAL INSTABILITY.
- Shoulder pain in the overhand or throwing athlete. The relationship of anterior instability and rotator cuff impingement.
- Arthroscopic removal of entrapped debris following dislocation of a total hip arthroplasty.
- Loans for studying abroad.
- Loans for studying abroad.
- A comparison of outpatient and inpatient anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery.
- Electromyographic and cinematographic analysis of elbow function in tennis players with lateral epicondylitis.
- Electromyographic and cinematographic analysis of elbow function in tennis players using single- and double-handed backhand strokes.
Treatments
- Torn Meniscus
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Frozen Shoulder
- Rotator Cuff Syndrome
- Pain
- Rotator Cuff Tear
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