Mr. Stephen Francis Papa PA
Physician Assistant
2155 W ORANGE GROVE RD TUCSON AZ, 85741About
Stephen Papa is a physician assistant practicing in TUCSON, AZ. Stephen specializes in preventing and treating human illness and injury by providing a broad range of care under the supervision of a physician. A physician assistant's work can include physical exams, ordering and interpreting tests, performing procedures and prescribing medication. Often times, they can assist in surgery but the scope of practice can vary according to jurisdiction or health care setting.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The role of muscle weakness in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis.
- Exercise can reverse quadriceps sensorimotor dysfunction that is associated with rheumatoid arthritis without exacerbating disease activity.
- Muscle, exercise and arthritis.
- Clinical effectiveness of a rehabilitation program integrating exercise, self-management, and active coping strategies for chronic knee pain: a cluster randomized trial.
- Economic evaluation of a rehabilitation program integrating exercise, self-management, and active coping strategies for chronic knee pain.
- Long-term outcomes and costs of an integrated rehabilitation program for chronic knee pain: a pragmatic, cluster randomized, controlled trial.
- Evaluating new physical treatments.
- Arthrogenic quadriceps inhibition and rehabilitation of patients with extensive traumatic knee injuries.
- The way forward for hydrotherapy.
- An evaluation of different protocols for measuring the force-velocity relationship of the human quadriceps muscles.
- The influence of arthrogenous muscle inhibition on quadriceps rehabilitation of patients with early, unilateral osteoarthritic knees.
- Sensorimotor changes and functional performance in patients with knee osteoarthritis.
- Quadriceps function, proprioceptive acuity and functional performance in healthy young, middle-aged and elderly subjects.
- Quadriceps weakness in osteoarthritis.
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