Dr. Bruce Merrill Gans MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
1199 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange NJ, 07052About
Dr. Bruce Gans is a physiatrist practicing in West Orange, NJ. Dr. Gans is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Gans 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. Gans 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
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1972
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rehabilitation care settings and deep vein thrombosis.
- Voluntary skeletal muscles: a unifying theory on the relationship of their electrical and mechanical activities.
- The 34th Walter J. Zeiter lecture: creating the future of PM&R: building on our past.
- Functional outcome in children with traumatic brain injury. Agreement between clinical judgment and the functional independence measure.
- Comments on the specificity of functional mobility measures in older adults after hip fracture.
- Is PM&R teetering on the precipice of a dark age?
- Children with traumatic head injury: morbidity and postacute treatment.
- Impact of the "60% rule" on inpatient medical rehabilitation.
- Rehabilitation of severely injured children.
- Practicing physical medicine and rehabilitation in an ethical manner.
- Tufts assessment of motor performance: an empirical approach to identifying motor performance categories.
- Who will provide care for people with complex physical disabilities?
- Utilization of inpatient rehabilitation services among traumatically injured children discharged from pediatric trauma centers.
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: potential effects on physical medicine and rehabilitation.
- Lessons learned through leadership.
Treatments
- Blepharoplasty-eyelids
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