Dr. Patricia Wilson Nance M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
5901 E 7th St Va Long Beach Health Long Beach CA, 90822About
Dr. Patricia Nance is a physiatrist practicing in Long Beach, CA. Dr. Nance is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Nance 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. Nance 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 Central Florida College of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Intravenous pamidronate attenuates bone density loss after acute spinal cord injury.
- Analgesics. Opioids, adjuvants, and others.
- Antispasticity medications.
- Urinary and gastrointestinal systems medications.
- BOLD MRI of the human cervical spinal cord at 3 tesla.
- Surgical treatment of pressure ulcers: 20-year experience.
- Alpha adrenergic and serotonergic agents in the treatment of spastic hypertonia.
- Efficacy and safety of tolterodine in people with neurogenic detrusor overactivity.
- Intrathecal drug therapy using the Codman Model 3000 Constant Flow Implantable Infusion Pumps: experience with 17 cases.
- Efficacy and safety study of arbaclofen placarbil in patients with spasticity due to spinal cord injury.
- Neuroendocrine and behavioral effects of intrathecal capsaicin in adult female rats.
- Substance P-induced long-term blockade of spinal adrenergic analgesia: reversal by morphine and naloxone.
- Rehabilitation of an adult with disabilities due to congenital sensory neuropathy.
- A comparison of clonidine, cyproheptadine and baclofen in spastic spinal cord injured patients.
Treatments
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Pain
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