Dr. Shirley Wu MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
1441 Constitution Blvd Salinas CA, 93906About
Dr. Shirley Wu is a physiatrist practicing in Salinas, CA. Dr. Wu is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Wu 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. Wu 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
Zhongshan School of Medicine 1996
Provider Details
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Arthritis
- Neuropathy
- Fibromyalgia
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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