Dr. Peter N Costa M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
973 Mica Dr Suite 201 Carson City NV, 89705Rating
3/5
About
Dr. Peter Costa is a physiatrist practicing in Carson City, NV. Dr. Costa is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Costa 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. Costa 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
University Of Nevada School Of Medicine 1988
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- [Use of a barbiturate with ultra rapid effect; sodium salt of methylthioethylpenthyl barbituric acid].
- [Primary tumors of the gastrojejunal anastomosis].
- [CLINICAL AND STATISTICAL DATA ON THE INJURED PERSONS HOSPITALIZED DURING THE 2-YEAR PERIOD 1961-1962 IN THE GENERAL SURGERY DIVISION OF THE OSPEDALE MAGGIORE DI BOLOGNA].
- Prevalence of variants that confer risk for venous thromboembolism in an elderly population of northeastern Brazil.
- Frequency of SNP -336A/G in the promoter region of CD209 in a population from northeastern Brazil.
- Development and evaluation of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for detection of Ehrlichia canis DNA in naturally infected dogs using the p30 gene.
- [Clinical experience with pancuronomium bromide].
- [Comparative study between pancuronium bromide and d-tubocurarine].
- [The hypotensive effect of the combination of neuroleptoanalgesic drugs and tubocurarine].
Treatments
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Spondylolisthesis
- Neuropathy
- Fibromyalgia
- Back Pain
- Scoliosis
- Pinched Nerve
- Pain
- Tendonitis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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