Dr. Norman Leroy Banks MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
795 El Camino Real Palo Alto CA, 94301About
Dr. Norman Banks is a physiatrist practicing in Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Banks is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Banks 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. Banks 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 California 2002
Provider Details
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Osteoarthritis
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
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