Dr. Anthony S. Burns M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
25 S 9th St Philadelphia PA, 19107About
Dr. Anthony Burns is a physiatrist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Burns is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Burns 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. Burns 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
Yale School of Medicine 1994
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Abnormal spontaneous potentials in distal muscles in animal models of spinal cord injury.
- Paralysis elicited by spinal cord injury evokes selective disassembly of neuromuscular synapses with and without terminal sprouting in ankle flexors of the adult rat.
- Fibrillation potentials following spinal cord injury: improvement with neurotrophins and exercise.
- The impact of methylprednisolone on lesion severity following spinal cord injury.
- Neuromuscular transmission failure and muscle fatigue in ankle muscles of the adult rat after spinal cord injury.
- Walking index for spinal cord injury version 2 (WISCI-II) with repeatability of the 10-m walk time: Inter- and intrarater reliabilities.
- Spinal cord injury in postearthquake Haiti: lessons learned and future needs.
- Humanitarian response following the earthquake in Haiti: reflections on unprecedented need for rehabilitation.
- The challenge of spinal cord injury care in the developing world.
- Meeting the challenges of spinal cord injury care following sudden onset disaster: lessons learned.
- The application of operations research methodologies to the delivery of care model for traumatic spinal cord injury: the access to care and timing project.
- Evaluation of an interdisciplinary program for chronic pain after spinal cord injury.
- Modeling the patient journey from injury to community reintegration for persons with acute traumatic spinal cord injury in a Canadian centre.
- The application of implementation science for pressure ulcer prevention best practices in an inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation program.
- Phenomenological study of neurogenic bowel from the perspective of individuals living with spinal cord injury.
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