Dr. Richard Vincent Riggs MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
8631 W 3rd St # 915e Los Angeles CA, 90048About
Dr. Richard Riggs is a physiatrist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Riggs is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Riggs 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. Riggs 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
Med Coll of Ga Sch of Med, Augusta Ga 1988
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University 1988
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Positive outcomes in traumatic brain injury-vegetative state: patients treated with bromocriptine.
- Interrater reliability of the Karnofsky Performance Status in an HIV-infected sample.
- Visual deficit interventions in adult stroke and brain injury: a systematic review.
- Client-centered occupational therapy using constraint-induced therapy.
- Medical necessity: is current documentation practice and payment denial limiting access to inpatient rehabilitation?
- Joint replacement and hip fracture readmission rates: impact of discharge destination.
- Medicare's recovery audit contractor program: inpatient rehabilitation facilities are taking back takebacks, but enough?
- Perceptions of inpatient rehabilitation changes after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service 2010 regulatory updates contrasted with actual performance.
- Risk factors for discharge to an acute care hospital from inpatient rehabilitation among stroke patients.
- Transferring inpatient rehabilitation facility cancer patients back to acute care (TRIPBAC).
- Using Functional Status in the Acute Hospital to Predict Discharge Destination for Stroke Patients.
- Avoiding Harm and Achieving Good in Rehabilitation Hospitals and Units.
- Effect of chronic intracerebroventricular angiotensin II infusion on vasopressin release in rats.
- Focused review: physiatric management of HIV-related disability.
- Correlates of fatigue in HIV infection prior to AIDS: a pilot study.
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