Musculoskeletal Medicine

Musculoskeletal disorders are conditions affecting your body's muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments, bones and nerves. The pain and discomfort associated with these conditions can create limited physical functioning and affect your overall quality of life. 

Our highly skilled physiatrists and health care professionals collaborate to provide treatment and services for a wide range of conditions that result in pain and/or disability. We are dedicated to returning you to maximum physical functioning so that you can get back to enjoying your everyday life.

We offer outpatient occupational and physical therapy and unique inpatient rehabilitation services through Penn Therapy and Fitness.

Conditions That Benefit from Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation

Musculoskeletal rehabilitation programs aim to improve your functional capacity and well-being. Some of the conditions that may benefit from musculoskeletal rehabilitation include:

• Knee and achilles tendon injuries
• Tendon tears
• Trauma injuries, such as sprains, joint dislocations and fractures
• Back pain
• Neck pain
• Sore shoulders
• Pinched nerves
• Osteoporosis
• Arthritis
• Bone tumors
• Repetitive stress injuries, such as tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome
• Joint injury and replacement
• Work related injuries

Common Treatments for Musculoskeletal Disorders

Patients are able to experience decreased pain and regain optimal strength, mobility and overall physical functioning with any combination of the following treatments:

• Physical and occupational therapy
• Injections with anti-inflammatory drugs
• Pain medications
• Therapeutic massage
• Osteopathic manipulation