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Patient Recommendation
Dr. Ruth Lowengart, MDOM
786 State Street
Medford, OR 97504
(541) 776-5111
She used to be chief physician at the
Alta Bates Occupational Medicine Clinic in Berkeley . . . and an
assistant clinical professor
at the University of California, San Francisco. She was overloaded with a
lot of the cases (from all over the Bay Area) that no one else knew what to
do with. Her specialty is occupational medicine, and she's had some
osteopathic training; she also acknowledges learning from a wide range of
other sources, including "alternative" health practitioners and listening to
her patients (a novel idea for most doctors I've run into in treating RSIs).
She has a holistic view of the body and thus has an excellent undertanding
of the relationship between RSI and other things going on in one's body,
especially in (but not limited to) the back/neck, and is very good at
recognizing and treating thoracic outlet syndrome as well as myofascial
stress. She's also a hands-on physicianvery rarewho does some
manipulation for both diagnosis and relief, and very good at giving
appropriate exercises and educating her patients. I wish she were still here!
Patient Recommendation
Rick Lockwood
Research Associate
Portland Hand Surgery & Rehabilitation Center
NoEndo@AOL.com
Patient Recommendation
Jeanne Dunnewind, PT Feldenkrais practitioner 690-7914 Beaverton, OR
Patient Recommendation
Either of the Western States Chiropractic College's outpatient clinics.
These clinics are in the Portland, OR area. You can contact the college
at 1-503-251-5734, or 1-800-641-5641.
Patient Recommendation
I've been going to Dr. Buehler, who is an Arm/Hand specialist and
Orthopedist. He is the only one who has listened to me, and specializes in
micro-surgery of the arm and hand. His offices are located in the
Providence Medical Center adjoining Providene hospital. Good Luck!
Patient Recommendation
(Portland area)
Try Dr. Robert Berselli 503-692-0610.
Try Dan Carter in Portland. He is very knowledgeable. I have known him for a few years now.He is a Naturopathic doctor who teaches at the Naturopathic college there. He is a Bowen practitioner and Instructor as well. I don't have his number infront of me but his data is on the www.bowenacademy.com website.
Patient Recommendation
The Portland Oregon RSI Support Group
is attempting to rate local health care providers. As their web page
indicates, you have to contact the support group to get the recommendations as they do not
post the actual ratings on their site.
Patient Recommendation
I'm in that area and haven't found a great doctor yet, but a very good
chriopractor and a very good Physical Therapy place. Doctors just get
me in to the PTs - I ended up dx'ing myself and then had to tell them
what I thought I had - and I was right. TOS !
But I would have liked to be wrong as long as it wasn't something worse!
Chiro is in Hillsboro, and PT place is in Newberg.
PT website :http://www.chehalempt.com/CTD/TOS-CTD_rehab.htm
Bud ,the owner operator did an independant eval for me and was the only
one to find exactly where my compression areas were and relieve one of
the trouble spots instantly.
Patient Recommendation
Sylvan Hill Physical Therapy Dr. Nafziger 5415 SW Westgate Drive Portland, OR 97221 (503) 297-3003 Great Doctor with high success rate treating RSI/CTS w/out surgery!!
Patient Recommendation
liked Dr. Francisco Soldevilla he is part of Northwest neurosurgical
Associates. The last phone number I have for him is 503-885-8845. His
office is located in Tualatin Oregon.
. . . Dr. Soldevilla seemed to believe my problem was not thoracic
outlet syndrome but just a standard overuse repetitive stress injury. He
was one of the only doctors who actually prescribed rest rather than
drugs and more of the same.
He also mentioned that there's really no good definitive test for
thoracic outlet syndrome. The only true way to know if you have it and
it is causing problems is to do the surgery and if the problems go away
you must have had it. However he said you are just as likely to have new
problems after the surgery and that the success rate is extremely low.