Dr. Gary Michael Yarkony MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
1975 Lin Lor Ln Suite 195 Elgin IL, 60123Rating
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Dr. Gary Yarkony is a physiatrist practicing in Elgin, IL. Dr. Yarkony is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Yarkony 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. Yarkony 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
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Syracuse, Coll of Med, Syracuse Ny 1978
University at Buffalo State University of New York School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 1978
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The older adult with a spinal cord injury.
- Clean and sterile intermittent catheterization methods in hospitalized patients with spinal cord injury.
- Traumatic cervical Brown-Sequard and Brown-Sequard-plus syndromes: the spectrum of presentations and outcomes.
- Rehabilitation in spinal cord disorders. 4. Outcomes and issues of aging after spinal cord injury.
- Superior mesenteric artery syndrome in acute traumatic quadriplegia: case reports and literature review.
- Substance use and receipt of treatment by persons with long-term spinal cord injuries.
- Prevention of thromboembolism after spinal cord injury using low-molecular-weight heparin.
- Enhancement of sexual function and fertility in spinal cord-injured males.
- A new orthosis for central cord syndrome and brachial plexus injuries.
- Estimating the user population of a simple electrical stimulation system for standing.
- Traumatic central cord syndrome: clinical features and functional outcomes.
- Heterotopic ossification pseudophlebitis.
- Rehabilitation technology for standing and walking after spinal cord injury.
- Rehabilitation of quadriplegic patients with phrenic nerve pacers.
- Standing the spinal cord injured patient by electrical stimulation: refinement of a protocol for clinical use.
Treatments
- Stroke
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Abnormal Gait
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