Dr. Gerald J. Herbison M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
25 S 9th St Philadelphia PA, 19107About
Dr. Gerald Herbison is a physiatrist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Herbison is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Herbison 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. Herbison 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
Loyola Univ of Chicago Stritch Sch of Med, Maywood Il 1962
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine 1962
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University 1966
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 relationship between the functional abilities of patients with cervical spinal cord injury and the severity of damage revealed by MR imaging.
- Strength changes over time among polio survivors.
- Mobilization of a patient with progressive neuromuscular disease and lower extremity fractures.
- Abdominal problems in patients with spinal cord lesions.
- Functional MR imaging of the human cervical spinal cord.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: diagnosis, clinical course, and rehabilitation from poliomyelitis.
- Relationship between two measures of upper extremity strength: manual muscle test compared to hand-held myometry.
- Motor evoked potentials and central motor conduction: studies of transcranial magnetic stimulation with recording from the leg.
- Lingual abscess from a grill cleaning brush bristle.
- Postpoliomyelitis muscle weakness: a prospective study of quadriceps strength.
- Expanding the differential of shoulder pain: Parsonage-Turner syndrome.
- Spinal cord injury: prognosis for ambulation based on sensory examination in patients who are initially motor complete.
- Cosmetic, functional, independent: self-help aids.
- Case report: a case review of Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome and low back pain.
- Recovery of strength at the zone of injury in motor complete and motor incomplete cervical spinal cord injured patients.
Treatments
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Neuropathy
- Pain
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