Dr. Bernard Charles Burns DO
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
48 Doctors Park Orthopaedic Associat Cape Girardeau MO, 63703About
Dr. Bernard Burns is a physiatrist practicing in Cape Girardeau, MO. Dr. Burns is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Burns 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. Burns 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.
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Kansas City University Of Med and Biosciences 1985
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