Dr. Elsa J Aguilera M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
Va Boston Healthcare System 1400 Vfw Parkway West Roxbury MA, 02132About
Dr. Elsa Aguilera is a physiatrist practicing in West Roxbury, MA. Dr. Aguilera is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Aguilera 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. Aguilera 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Atelectasis and mucus plugging in spinal cord injury: case report and therapeutic approaches.
- Prostate atrophy and spinal cord lesions.
- Chronic pain after spinal cord injury: an expedient diagnostic approach.
- Flexed neck posture due to cervical posttraumatic syringomyelia.
- Diazepam and body weight in myelopathy patients.
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- Dr. David Marc Blaustein MD1400 VFW PARKWAY WEST ROXBURY MA 02132
- Dr. Marika J Hess M.D.1400 Vfw Pkwy West Roxbury MA 02132
- Dr. Katherine Doerr Linsenmeyer MD1400 VFW PKWY WEST ROXBURY MA 02132
- Mr. Jesse Lee Dimick PTA, LATC43 Redlands Rd West Roxbury MA 02132
- Dr. Ellen H Zhan MD1400 Vfw Pkwy West Roxbury MA 02132
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