Dr. Gwendolyn Ann Sowa MD,PHD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
3471 5th Ave Suite 1103 Pittsburgh PA, 15213Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Gwendolyn Sowa is a physiatrist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Sowa is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Sowa 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. Sowa 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
New Jersey College of Dentistry 2000
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- p38 MAPK inhibition selectively mitigates inflammatory mediators and VEGF production in AF cells co-cultured with activated macrophage-like THP-1 cells.
- Application of a semiautomated contour segmentation tool to identify the intervertebral nucleus pulposus in MR images.
- Novel ex-vivo mechanobiological intervertebral disc culture system.
- Commentary: Do no harm: the potential negative effects of injectates used in spinal intervention.
- Investigating the role of DNA damage in tobacco smoking-induced spine degeneration.
- Effects of secreted factors in culture medium of annulus fibrosus cells on microvascular endothelial cells: elucidating the possible pathomechanisms of matrix degradation and nerve in-growth in disc degeneration.
- Correlation of pain with objective quantification of magnetic resonance images in older adults with chronic low back pain.
- The development of biomarkers for degenerative musculoskeletal conditions.
- Skeletal muscle as a regulator of the longevity protein, Klotho.
- Introduction to the series: Association of Academic Physiatrists research committee funding priority recommendations.
- Associations between serum biomarkers and pain and pain-related function in older adults with low back pain: a pilot study.
- Biological responses to flexion/extension in spinal segments ex-vivo.
- A Computational, Tissue-Realistic Model of Pressure Ulcer Formation in
- Early Detection of Pressure Ulcer Development Following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Using Inflammatory Mediators.
- Predictive validity of the Spinal Cord Injury Pressure Ulcer Scale (SCIPUS) in acute care and inpatient rehabilitation in individuals with traumatic spinal cord injury.
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