Dr. Katharine E Alter M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
1708 W. Rogers Ave Baltimore MD, 21209Rating
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About
Dr. Katharine Alter is a physiatrist practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Alter is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Alter 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. Alter 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 Ohio, Toledo Oh 1983
University of Toledo College of Medicine,Toledo, Oh, United States 1983
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR- Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cerebral palsy: new approaches to therapy.
- Human body shape index based on an experimentally derived model of human growth.
- Three-dimensional in vivo quantification of knee kinematics in cerebral palsy.
- Understanding patellofemoral pain with maltracking in the presence of joint laxity: complete 3D in vivo patellofemoral and tibiofemoral kinematics.
- Q-angle and J-sign: indicative of maltracking subgroups in patellofemoral pain.
- New clinical and research trends in lower extremity management for ambulatory children with cerebral palsy.
- McConnell taping shifts the patella inferiorly in patients with patellofemoral pain: a dynamic magnetic resonance imaging study.
- High-frequency ultrasound guidance for neurotoxin injections.
- Alterations in in vivo knee joint kinematics following a femoral nerve branch block of the vastus medialis: Implications for patellofemoral pain syndrome.
- Kinematic determinants of anterior knee pain in cerebral palsy: a case-control study.
- Muscle plasticity and ankle control after repetitive use of a functional electrical stimulation device for foot drop in cerebral palsy.
- OnabotulinumtoxinA muscle injection patterns in adult spasticity: a systematic literature review.
- Three-dimensional humeral morphologic alterations and atrophy associated with obstetrical brachial plexus palsy.
- In vivo pediatric shoulder muscle volumes and their relationship to 3D strength.
- Cortical activation and inter-hemispheric sensorimotor coherence in individuals with arm dystonia due to childhood stroke.
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