Dr. Praxedes Villacastin Belandres M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Pain Medicine
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Ave Nw Bldg 41, Suite 021 Washington DC, 20307Rating
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Dr. Praxedes Belandres is a physiatrist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Belandres is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Belandres 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. Belandres 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.
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- EMG feedback therapy: review of treatment of 114 patients.
- Sensory feedback therapy for stroke patients.
- Isokinetic exercise system modification for short below-the-knee residual limbs.
- Isolated lesion of the lateral cutaneous nerve of the forearm.
- Radial motor nerve conduction studies.
- Suction cup ground and reference electrodes in electrodiagnosis.
- Common clinical presentations among active duty personnel with traumatically induced reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
- Topical capsaicin for chronic neck pain. A pilot study.
- Helping hemiparetics to help themselves. Sensory feedback therapy.
- Amputee soldiers and their return to active duty.
- Extensor digitorum brevis reflex in normals and patients with radiculopathies.
- Epidural corticosteroid injections for acute radiculopathy in a 95-year-old woman.
- Persian Gulf War amputees: injuries and rehabilitative needs.
- Lumbosacral radiculopathy screen. Optimizing the number of muscles studies.
- Potential drug interactions in a physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic.
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